London Grip Poetry Review – Patricia McCarthy
Nick Cooke examines an ambitious biographical poem-sequence by Patricia McCarthy
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London Grip Poetry Review – Richie McCaffery
Stuart Henson enjoys Richie McCaffery’s conversational and sharp-witted poetry – and his knack of crafting a good punch-line.
London Grip Poetry Review – Mark Mansfield
Angela Topping admires Mark Mansfield’s carefully controlled and crafted poems for their plain speaking
In Transit : Poems of Travel
Merryn Williams loves anthologies and finds this collection of travel poems to be a good and inspiring example
London Grip Poetry Review – Jessica Mookherjee
Jessica Mookherjee’s collection Flood contains poems so fiercely inventive that “Riptide” might even be a fitting title observes Brian Docherty
London Grip Poetry Review – James Roderick Burns
Thomas Ovans takes a close look at a collection of haiku by James Roderick Burns
London Grip Poetry Review – Josephine Corcoran
Josephine Corcoran’s poetry succeeds in addressing both actual and imagined experience, observes Emma Lee
London Grip Poetry Review – Three Poets from Finland
Roger Caldwell is intrigued – but sometimes perplexed – by the work of three Finnish poets writing in English
London Grip Poetry Review- Ann Vaughan-Williams
Martin Noutch respects Ann Vaughan-Williams’ poetry for its inclusiveness that finds nothing to be unworthy of being appreciated
London Grip Poetry Review – Elizabeth Parker
Its title notwithstanding, Elizabeth Parker’s new collection is far from being shambolic, observes Wendy Klein
London Grip Poetry Review – Hubert Moore
Wendy French responds to the compassion in Hubert Moore’s poetry
London Grip Poetry Review – Patrick Osada
Carla Scarano admires the way that Patrick Osada’s poems play with light and shadow