Martin Noutch respects the honesty with which Hannah Hodgson makes poetry out of serious illness
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Carla Scarano admires Dawn Wood’s poetry which deals with the healing power of imagination
Martin Noutch appreciates both the playfulness and the seriousness of Kevin Densley’s collection
Pamela Johnson explores a small book in which the poems of Helen Mort respond to massive Arctic landscapes
Emma Lee looks at the new Happenstance collection from Fiona Moore
Graham Hardie considers the range and substance of a debut collection by Will Holloway
Stuart Henson listens in to Neil Curry’s artful channeling of Virginia Woolf
Marnie is remembered best as the film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Made in 1964, with Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery in the leading roles, Marnie tells the story of a mysterious woman who assumes multiple identities in order to steal money from her employers and the man who hunts her down, Mark Rutland.
According to her latest memoir, To Throw away Unopened, Viv Albertine is very, very angry. Her first, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes, Music, Music, Music, Boys, Boys, Boys opens with the story of how she joined girl band The Slits in the late 1970’s with Ari Up, Tessa Pollitt and Palmolive to make music in the same riotous spirit of amateurism as their punk brothers, the Sex Pistols.
Merryn Williams shares a few thoughts about Alan Dunnett’s rather challenging poetry collection which seeks, among other things, to capture “the psychological fallout of anxiety in modern capitalist culture”
Richie McCaffery finds the new pamphlet by Donald Gardner to have something of the weight of a full collection
D A Prince examines a very well-integrated collection of poems from Oliver Comins
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2018 • Tags: books, D A Prince, poetry