poetry reviews

Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reflects on a new selection of John Rety’s intriguing and individual poetry

Sarah Lawson finds much to admire in Leah Fritz’s new collection Whatever Sends the Music Into Time

A South Bank audience gives an enthusiastic welcome to Ethiopian poet Bewketu Seyoum reading from his new chapbook.  London Grip agrees…

“Banjo” by Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch – a review by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs

Thomas Roberts reviews Welcome Back to the Country by Graham Clifford

Thomas Ovans reviews Mike Barlow’s latest collection Charmed Lives

Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews the patron saint of schoolgirls by Liz Berry and Fair’s Fair by Susan Utting

Kim Morrissey reviews Counting Eggs – the new collection by Peter Daniels

Mike Barlow reviews Finns and Amazons – a new collection by Nancy Mattson

Thomas Ovans considers three recent pamphlet collections: True Crime by Julie Lumsden;  Mr Right by Steven Blyth; and Homing In by Mo Gallaccio

Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews Protest by David Floyd, The Manager by Robin Vaughan-Williams and Boring the Arse off Young People by Martin Figura