Danielle Hope samples some double delights from Shoestring Press: featuring football – Paul McLoughin – and small creatures – Nadine Brummer
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Richie McCaffery examines a new anthology of Palestinian poetry, edited by Naomi Foyle, and finds it eye-opening
Carla Scarano finds Caroline Price’s poetry to be flowing and enigmatic
Thomas Ovans discovers that poetry and medicine can mix rather well in this handsome anthology from Hippocrates Press
Roger Caldwell gives a thoughtful appraisal of a carefully chosen selection of Michael Schmidt’s poetry
Sarah Lawson draws attention to a posthumously published collection in which Sarah Getty’s intelligence and wit still live on
John Forth finds that John Levett’s new collection raises a number of questions
Fiona Sinclair commends Michael Rosen’s use of poetry to make some telling political points
Norbert Hirschhorn acknowledges the craft and potency of Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s poetry
In our society multi-tasking is often seen as a women’s skill but rather than it being a critique of Jill of All Trades, the thesis behind the book is to honour the fresh concept of Renaissance Women.
Alex Josephy finds Abegail Morley’s fascinating new collection builds to much more than the sum of its parts
Paul McLoughlin is impressed by the breadth of subject matter from which Alan Dixon can make poetry
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2018 • Tags: books, Paul McLoughlin, poetry