Merryn Williams is impressed by the frankness and defiant spirit of Fiona Sinclair’s new collection WONDERLAND
poetry reviews
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 SPEAK OLD PARROT
New chapbooks by Fiona Moore and Chrissy Williams make favourable impressions on Thomas Ovans
Kerrin P Sharpe’s new collection receives warm approval from Norbert Hirschhorn.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs enjoys an amusing (and sometimes tender) poetic “biography” by Peter Phillips
Translating Against the Odds: Wendy Klein discusses Yvonne Green’s new versions of Semyon Lipkin’s poetry
Thomas Ovans is impressed by Norbert Hirschhorn’s multi-faceted new collection Monastery of the Moon
Thomas Ovans browses a handsome poetic and photographic collaboration by William Oxley and Barry Davidson
Chris Muirhead offers an exuberant review of THE STANGEST THANKYOU –a debut poetry collection by Richard Thomas
David Cooke reviews A.F. Harrold’s latest collection ‘The Point of Inconvenience’
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. Born in the NHS by Wendy French & Jane Kirwan The Hippocrates Press (London, 2013) ISBN 978-0-957-9572571-2-2 pp 240 £12
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, politics, society, Year 2013