Poetry review – THE LAST DINOSAUR IN DONCASTER: James Roderick Burns finds gritty lyricism in a promising first collection by Sarah Wimbush
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Poetry review – AUSCULTATION : Kate Ashton is moved by the honest emotions revealed in Ilse Pedler’s poetry
Poetry review – BROOKSONG & SHADOWS: Alwyn Marriage enjoys the richness of language in Lynne Wycherley’s latest collection
Poetry review – KARAOKE KING: Kate Ashton admires the range and complexity of Dai George’s new collection
Poetry review – THE GIDDINGS: Emma Storr reflects on a compact but dense historical sequence by John Greening
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, Victoria and Albert Museum. Review by Carla Scarano. .”..a marvellous but unsettling journey through the origin of Alice’s stories and their adaptations and reinventions in films, art, music, fashion, photography and design.”
Rachael Smart reviews a collection of essays gathered around the subject of trauma
Poetry review – TRAVEL BY HAIKU: Charles Rammelkamp commends Marshall Deerfield’s efforts to compress a travelogue into a haiku sequence
Poetry review – POEMS TO NIGHT: Roger Caldwell reviews a new translation by Will Stone of some of Rilke’s less well-know poems
Poetry review – AT RISK: Rennie Halstead admires the way that Diana Cant has made poetry from her insights gained as a child psychotherapist
Poetry Review – THE LONG HABIT OF LIVING: Stephen Claughton admires the undiminished creativity on display in M R Peacocke’s new collection
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Poetry review – THE SYMMETRY OF FOLKLORE: Emma Storr welcomes a debut collection by Donna Irving