poetry reviews

Thomas Ovans is moved by Steve Rudd’s very personal poems about the NHS

D A Prince commends Tom Sastry as a poet who looks at the world in fresh ways while still leaving space for his readers

Emma Lee follows poems by Victoria Gatehouse as they take a sometimes clinical view of the journey from young woman to parent

Stuart Henson commends a pamphlet in which poems by Katharine Towers have the space to breathe and to resonate with one another

Merryn Williams casts an eye over a new collection by Michael W Thomas

Merryn Williams admires the continuing power of Ruth Bidgood’s poetry

Maria C. McCarthy is both entertained and puzzled by the poems in a debut collection by Dawn Watson

Angela Topping looks at a successful collaboration between Rebecca Goss & Chris Routledge

Neil Fulwood compliments David Clarke on not putting a foot wrong in his poetic assessment of present day Britain

Angela Topping admires Jane Burn’s fleetness of word in a new narrative sequence

Wendy French considers a sizeable collection by Chris Armstrong and finds it honest about love, loss and the joy of being alive

D A Prince reviews an excellent debut pamphlet by Joe Carrick-Varty