Poetry Review – LIMINAL: Adele Ward reviews Laura Fusco’s collection translated from the Italian by Caroline Maldonado
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Poetry review – PAPER CUT: Richie McCaffery enjoys the approachability of Hamish Whyte’s poems – but warns the reader not to underestimate them
Poetry review – EX-CHANGES: Peter Ualrig Kennedy expresses his admiration for Antony Johae’s intriguing poems of reminiscence
Poetry review – A DINNER PARTY IN THE HOME COUNTIES: Emma Lee credits Reshma Ruia with being able to spot and to use the small but telling details of a social encounter.
Poetry review – TO DARN, TO MEND, TO INTERWEAVE: Chris Beckett reviews a very personal collection by Jo Roach in which the past is intermingled with the present
Poetry review – ALONENESS IS A MANY-HEADED BIRD: Wendy Klein finds a collaborative collection by Rosie Jackson and Dawn Gorman to be compulsive reading
Poetry review – ZOMBIES AT THE DISCO: Charles Rammelkamp gets to know quite a lot about Alison Stone through her autobiographical ghazals
Poetry review – THE KINDNESS OF THE EEL: P.W. Bridgman finds both magic and hope at the heart of Ben Ray’s poetry
Poetry review – BLUE TO THE EDGE: Rennie Halstead engages with a collection of very personal poems by Brian Docherty
Poetry review – SEHNSUCHT: Stephen Claughton admires Christine McNeill’s intriguing and enigmatic poems
Poetry review – STREET LIGHT AMBER: James Roderick Burns admires the way that Noel Duffy weaves atmospheric urban poetry around the story of a troubled relationship
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Poetry review – YES BUT WHAT IS THIS? WHAT EXACTLY? : Stuart Henson finds Ian McMillan’s poetry to be a mix of the good-humoured and the seriously thought-provoking