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Angela Topping admires Mark Mansfield’s carefully controlled and crafted poems for their plain speaking

Merryn Williams loves anthologies and finds this collection of travel poems to be a good and inspiring example

Jessica Mookherjee’s collection Flood contains poems so fiercely inventive that “Riptide” might even be a fitting title observes Brian Docherty

Thomas Ovans takes a close look at a collection of haiku by James Roderick Burns

Josephine Corcoran’s poetry succeeds in addressing both actual and imagined experience, observes Emma Lee

Roger Caldwell is intrigued – but sometimes perplexed – by the work of three Finnish poets writing in English

Martin Noutch respects Ann Vaughan-Williams’ poetry for its inclusiveness that finds nothing to be unworthy of being appreciated

Its title notwithstanding, Elizabeth Parker’s new collection is far from being shambolic, observes Wendy Klein

Wendy French responds to the compassion in Hubert Moore’s poetry

John Forth appreciates a carefully-compiled first collection by Andrew Geary

Carla Scarano reviews Gillian Allnutt’s Wake and admires it as a study in words

Nick Cooke considers Ruth O’Callaghan’s ambitious poetic meditation on London’s immigrants