Poetry review – A LEXICON OF LONGING: Jennifer Johnson appreciates the example set by Kevin Saving’s accomplished use of formal techniques
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Poetry review – ON LOAN: Merryn Williams reviews Caroline Maldonado’s new collection of poems about life in Italy which often shine unaccustomed light on the darker aspects
Poetry review – A PREVALENCE OF ANGELS: Charles Rammelkamp finds an unusually strong sense of awe and reverence in Jennifer Barber’s poems
Poetry review – THE BEAT THE PULSE THE WAVE: Colin Pink enjoys some vivid personal memories retold as poems by Jeremy Dixon
Ode to the Boy-Rabbit: Ifésinàchi Nwàdiké reviews Wayne Holloway-Smith’s RABBITBOX
Poetry review – LETTERS FOR JOHN: Alex Josephy is moved by the memories Carole Coates continues to share with her late husband
Poetry review – SOME DARK GOD: Rachel Jeffcoat lets Catherine Balaq’s poems take her into some intriguingly dark places
Poetry review – CANDLELIGHT: Nick Cooke enjoys the way that Sean Street’s poems play with sound as well as with the illumination implied by the title
Poetry review – A LITTLE BRIDGE: Jennifer Johnson appreciates Alex Josephy’s poetic perspectives on bridges as connections and as ways of getting past obstacles
Poetry review – NEW & COLLECTED POEMS: Ian Pople looks back over Jeffrey Wainwright’s poetic career as summed up in this major retrospective volume
Poetry review – AFTER A SHORT ILLNESS: Sarah Leavesley admires John Whitehouse’s account of losing language as a result of a stroke – and then recovering it in new forms
Poetry review – WALKING AWAY: Jean Atkin is touched by Martyn Crucefix’s gentle remembering of his ageing parents
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2026 • Tags: books, Jean Atkin, poetry