Vaughan Rapatahana seeks, in relatively few words, to give a flavour of Alan Corkish’s monumental and challenging 25,000-word semi-autobiographical poem
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Michael Bartholomew-Biggs takes in Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s poetic impressions of a residency at Keats House
Paul McLoughlin reviews a collection set in the 1930s which recreates a lost age that was both golden and flawed.
Angela Kirby’s latest collection artfully encompasses both broad humour and tightly controlled grief
D A Prince finds good things in Caroline Squire’s prize-winning pamphlet collection.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs welcomes the reappearance of some half-hidden R.S. Thomas poems
Thomas Ovans confronts some radical views expressed in radical verse in Steve Ely’s latest collection
Merryn Williams is pleased to get hold of the first – albeit brief – biography of the much admired Cornish poet Charles Causley.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs considers a literary encounter that might have taken place in 1930s London
Merryn Williams is reminded of some traditional poetic virtues when reading the latest book by Simon Curtis.
Although very different in tone, the recent collections by Kathryn Maris and Maitreyabandhu have more in common than first appears
John Greening discusses recent collections by two eminent Irish poets
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, poetry-archive