poetry reviews

Poetry review – AMBUSH AT STILL LAKE: Rennie Halstead enjoys being taken to unexpected places by Caroline Bird’s poems

Poetry review – BELIEF SYSTEMS: Paul McDonald praises Tamar Yoseloff’s new collection of ekphrastic poetry for its imagination and inventiveness

Poetry review – A DISTANT ENGLISHNESS: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs examines a challenging but rewarding collection by John Whitehouse

Poetry review – MERMAIDS OF ALBUQUERQUE: Charles Rammelkamp enjoys the realistic optimism in Elizabeth Cohen’s poems

Poetry review – SMALL AND NECESSARY LIVES: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs admires Ron Scowcroft’s ability to capture moments that might easily be missed

Poetry review – THE POINT OF THE STICK: Thomas Ovans enjoys Neil Fulwood’s poetic sketches of famous conductors

Poetry review – PERISTERIA: Thomas Ovans appreciates the quiet, firm and consistent voice in Tim Cunningham’s poems

Poetry Review – MAHOGANY EVE: Pam Thompson admires the vividness of detail in this poetic memoir by Alan Payne

Poetry review – ONCE THERE WAS COLOUR: Pat Edwards is moved by Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s eye-witness poems about the crisis in Sudan

Poetry review – IMMORTAL WRECKAGE: Colin Pink is impressed by the many resonances and references behind the poems in Will Stone’s collection

Poetry review – THE DANCING MAN: John Lucas admires the new collection by Adrian Caesar – albeit with the mildest of reservations

Poetry review- THE BUTTERFLY HOUSE: Merryn Williams admires the originality of thought and expression in this collection by the late Kathryn Bevis