Rosie Johnston admires the strongly narrative poetry of Jennifer A McGowan
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D A Prince considers how best to appreciate the subtle poetry of Martyn Crucefix
Pam Thompson reviews a clutch of prize-winning pamphlets from Smith/Doorstop
Peter Ualrig Kennedy travels the world in the company of Margaret Eddershaw’s recent collection
Carla Scarano D’Antonio reviews Michael Bartholomew-Biggs’s poetic sketch of a family history which is based as much on imagination as on evidence.
Motherhood is one of the themes in Clare Pollard’s new collection; but the book also broadens out into forceful and compassionate poems about the sorrows of the world into which our children are born.
Chris Beckett welcomes the arrival of a new collection from Julia Bird
Carla Scarano D’Antonio considers Jean Harrison’s reflective poetic reminiscences about her life and work in Ghana
James Roderick Burns has no doubts about the importance of Mayakovsky’s epic poem about Lenin in a new Smokestack edition by Rosy Carrick
Merryn Williams is doubly impressed – both by Andy Croft’s finely crafted poetry and by its subject, the unfairly neglected writer and activist, Randall Swingler
Richie McCaffery enjoys a poetry festschrift put together for the 80th birthday of poet, critic and publisher John Lucas
Pamela Johnson finds that Angela France’s landscape poems work on several levels.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, Pamela Johnson, poetry