Thomas Ovans is very grateful to Paul McLoughlin and Shoestring Press for republishing some of the best work of the poet Brian Jones.
poetry reviews
D A Prince considers how well Sheila Hillier has risen to the challenges of following up a successful first collection
Norbert Hirschhorn finds a strong and distinctive voice and character running through the new collection by Jackie Wills.
Merryn Williams finds that John Mole’s new pamphlet convincingly captures the experience of being seriously ill in hospital
John Greening discusses recent collections by two eminent Irish poets
Vaughan Rapatahana seeks, in relatively few words, to give a flavour of Alan Corkish’s monumental and challenging 25,000-word semi-autobiographical poem
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs takes in Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s poetic impressions of a residency at Keats House
Merryn Williams gets an insight into the craft of the prose poem by reading John Freeman’s new collection
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.
Emma Lee finds Maria Jastrzebska’s memory-poems both personal and inclusive.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, Year 2014