Poetry Review – The Possibility of Innocence. Jefferson Holdridge takes a measured look at a collection of thoughtful poems by Nicholas Bielby
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Poetry Review – Safety Behaviour. Maxine Linnell enjoys following Emma Jeremy’s poetic imagination
Poetry Review – The Anatomical Venus. Pat Edwards responds to Helen Ivory’s new collection which confronts historical abuses of women
Poetry Review – Aunts Come Armed with Welsh Cakes. Kate Noakes rather enjoys the contents – as well as the intriguing title – of Thirza Clout’s pamphlet collection
Poetry Review – Sightings. Mat Riches finds that Rose Cook has compressed a lot of looking at the world into one pamphlet
Emma Storr is drawn into Gareth Writer-Davies’s poetic reflections on mortality
Carla Scarano considers a dystopia convincingly described in a prose-poem sequence by Carole Coates
Thomas Ovans is moved by Steve Rudd’s very personal poems about the NHS
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is drawn into a mysterious world conjured up by Michael Loveday’s enigmatic prose pieces
D A Prince commends Tom Sastry as a poet who looks at the world in fresh ways while still leaving space for his readers
Maria C. McCarthy reviews a new short story collection by Anne Walsh Donnelly
Poetry Review – Exposure. Stephen Claughton reviews a collection by Derek Adams which sharply captures key moments in the life of photographer Lee Miller
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, photography, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, photography, poetry, Stephen Claughton