Shanta Acharya admires the development of Lance Lee’s poetic ideas and vocabulary as shown in his most recent collection
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D A Prince enjoys two recent, and very different, small-press pamphlets from William Gilson and Siegfried Baber
Merryn Williams responds to Alyson Hallett’s poetic account of her time as poet-in-residence at Charles Causley’s house.
John Snelling finds plenty of variety in a new chapbook by David Borrott
Anna Robinson gives a warm welcome to a recent selection of poetry by Wayne Burrows
Norbert Hirschhorn takes an in-depth look at a major New & Selected compilation of poems by Chana Bloch
Emma Lee commends Wendy Pratt’s adroit poetic handling of a painful and sensitive subject
John Lucas’s tribute to English cricketers who have stood up to the game’s authorities proves to be something much more thoughtful than a simple round-up of the ‘usual suspects’
Thomas Ovans applauds a new poetry anthology edited by Peter Kennedy – and also the motivation behind it.
Thomas Ovans is particularly impressed by a haunting quality in the poems from a new collection by Andrew Shields
Anna Robinson looks at a recent anthology of poems about historical events and considers what we can learn from poetry about ways of exploring the past.
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Rosie Johnston is intrigued by Rachel McCarthy’s fusing of poetry and science