Carla Scarano wonders how Christine McNeill’s poetry manages to combine tactile sensations and transcendence
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Alex Josephy reviews an enjoyable debut collection from Natalie Burdett
Ruth Valentine recognizes the delicacy with which Isabel Bermudez introduces poetic strangeness into familiar subjects.
Kerrin P Sharpe’s poems consistently offers a new take on the world, observes Roger Caldwell; but at times they can also be agreeably baffling.
Peter Ualrig Kennedy appreciates the warmth and variety in Rose Cook’s recent collection.
Stuart Henson approves the Very Selected concept in general and Michael Laskey’s volume in particular
Emma Lee takes a cool look at the poetry of Hera Lindsay Bird
So far, critics seem to agree that Egan has eschewed experimentation on this occasion and turned her hand to an old-fashioned crime thriller wrapped in an historical novel.
Nick Cooke relishes Stephen Bone’s poetic exploration of some darker aspects of botany
Rip Bulkeley describes the planning and production of a forthcoming anthology of poems responding to the fire in Grenfell Tower .
James Roderick Burns finds that Angela Topping’s poetry exercises a powerful force upon the reader
Camera Eye / I, Camera: Brian Docherty considers Jacqueline Saphra’s poem sequence based on remarkable photographs of and by Lee Miller
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2018 • Tags: books, Brian Docherty, poetry