SMALL IS … : Jim C Wilson celebrates a compact but perfectly formed collection by the late Pearl Blink
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Poetry review – NOTES ON THE WASTE LAND: Edmund Prestwich considers the relationship between Tim Dooley’s new sequence and the Eliot poem which inspired it
THE WASTE LAND: A BIOGRAPHY OF A POEM: Edmund Prestwich admires the depth and scope of Matthew Hollis’s study of T S Eliot’s most famous work
SOMETIME, IN A CHURCHYARD: Pat Edwards finds that the past is brought to life by a combination of Louise Warren’s poetry and Charlotte Harker’s drawings
Poetry review – THE LITTLE HOURS: Stuart Henson surveys a comprehensive “new & selected” from Hilary Llewellyn-Williams
THIS RARE SPIRIT: Kevin Saving shares some thoughts on the life of poet Charlotte Mew as set out in a recent biography by Julia Copus
ERNEST DOWSON: John Lucas reviews a new selection of work by at this late 19th Century poet compiled by James Hodgson & Henry Maas
Poetry review – PARIS BILE: Nell Prince finds that Baudelaire’s grimly vivid prose poems are well-served by new translations from James Roderick Burns
Paul McDonald reviews Seren’s new two-volume edition of Peter Finch’s Collected Poems
THE SECRET OF THE OLD RED PHONE BOOTH: Sarah Lawson is reminded of some children’s books from former generations The old red phone booth on Lewisham Way is a great way to get rid of books. Someone might like them; this is a very mixed London neighbourhood and there are a couple of colleges nearby. […]
Simenon The Man, The Books, The Films by Barry Forshaw. Review by Alan Price. I came very late in the day to the works of Georges Simenon. It was five years ago whilst talking, with a friend, about the early 1960’s BBC TV series of Maigret when I picked up my first Maigret novel. It was The Misty Harbour (1932). This story of a disturbed man found wandering the streets of Paris, with no recollection of who he is or how he got there was remarkably compelling.
Poetry review – 100 POEMS: Carla Scarano examines the poetry of Umberto Saba in a new translation by Patrick Worsnip
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