Poetry review – THE PLEASURE OF FIRING BACK: Janice Dempsey considers the two contrasting halves of Graham Buchan’s new collection
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50 of Tel Aviv’s Most Intriguing Streets. The Lives Behind the Names. Text by Miryam Sivan, Photographs by Ziv Koren. Curated by Ellin Yassky. Published by Gefen, Jerusalem & New York. Maror by Lavie Tidhar. Published by Head Zeus. Two book reviews with Israeli themes, by Julia Pascal.
Poetry review – WHAT THE SHEEP TAUGHT ME: Wendy Kyle considers Mary Mulholland’s debut pamphlet
Poetry review – INTERSTELLAR THEME PARK: Charles Rammelkamp accompanies Jack Skelley down a pop-culture memory lane
Poetry review – THE METAL EXCHANGE: Carla Scarano reviews David Cooke’s exploration of humanity’s complicated relationship with metals
THE NAKED WORLD: Sue Wallace-Shaddad follows Irina Mashinski on her autobiographical journey in prose and poetry
Poetry review – THE TALKING STICK: Pat Edwards feels moved and enriched by Raine Geoghegan’s poems of Romany life
Poetry review – PARIS BILE: Nell Prince finds that Baudelaire’s grimly vivid prose poems are well-served by new translations from James Roderick Burns
Poetry review – EXTERMINATING ANGELS: Charles Rammelkamp reflects on Alan Catlin’s willingness to confront life’s misfortunes
Poetry review – CANTICLE: Thomas Ovans is pleasantly surprised by the scope, depth and approachability of Murray Bodo’s poetry
Poetry review – PERFORMANCE RITES: James Roderick Burns admires Barry Smith’s exploration of the overlap between art and nature
Poetry review – EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE UNEDUCATED & ROUGH: Carla Scarano examines a collection by Hannah Maria Stanislaus which is highly personal and rather out of the ordinary
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2022 0 • Tags: books, Carla Scarano, poetry