Leah Fritz warms to Norbert Hirschhorn’s fresh poetic treatment of Jewish traditional songs
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Norbert Hirschhorn detects a Dali-esque streak in David Shook’s first collection
Thomas Ovans reflects on two poetry collections which take their inspiration from the past.
Chris Beckett follows the twists and turns of a collection that is both playful and serious…
Merryn Williams enjoys Wendy Klein’s colourful second collection.
Robert Nisbet admires a strong and deeply touching collection by Sue Millard
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs does his best to give an adequate appreciation of a dense, complex and rewarding collection.
Norbert Hirschhorn reflects on a poetry and prose memoir that gives an inside view of the National Health Service at a time when it may be about to change forever.
Merryn Williams is impressed by the frankness and defiant spirit of Fiona Sinclair’s new collection
In her latest collection, Waiting for Bluebeard, Helen Ivory invites her readers into a world where fantasy can sometimes become disturbingly real.
Norbert Hirschhorn finds much to think about and admire in Dannie Abse’s new collection
Alan Murray’s Perhaps turns out to be a very substantial slim volume
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, poetry-archive