Poetry review – COLLECTED POEMS: Emma Lee surveys Anne Stevenson‘s illustrious career as summed up in a new compilation of her work
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Poetry review – WHEN ILIUM BURNS: Charles Rammelkamp enjoys unravelling a perplexing narrative sequence by Tiffany Troy
Poetry review – THE THIRTEENTH ANGEL: Colin Pink admires the profound insights in this meditative collection by Philip Gross
In the Light You Will Find the Answer: Brian Docherty reviews Rosie Jackson’s collection LIGHT MAKES IT EASY
Poetry review – EUROPE, LOVE ME BACK: Pat Edwards admires Rakhshan Rizwan’s ways of tackling the difficult theme of racial intolerance
Poetry review – IT’S NOT PERSONAL: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews a pleasingly wide-ranging collection by Nigel Pantling
Poetry review – AS IF TO SING: James Roderick Burns admires the music and musicality running through this collection by Paul Henry
Poetry review – THE BIGGER PICTURE: Neil Fulwood finds much to enjoy in D A Prince’s new collection
Poetry review – MOON JELLYFISH CAN BARELY SWIM: Pat Edwards welcomes a thoughtful and wide-ranging collection by Ness Owen
Poetry review – TEN LINES: Rennie Halstead reviews a prize-winning collection of short poems by Sarah James
Poetry review – IN THE COUNTRY OF THE PEREGRINE: Charles Rammelkamp considers Wade Stevenson’s eloquently questioning poetry on love
Bright and Deadly Things. Review by Barbara Lewis. Lexie Elliott is far from the first to make the point that conventional logic has its limitations. But she stands apart from all the literature majors that have defended their visceral thinking in that she earned authority as an Oxford theoretical physicist and then a City banker before reinventing herself as a best-selling writer.
By Barbara Lewis • books, fiction, year 2023 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, fiction