London Grip Poetry Review – Helen Mort
Pamela Johnson explores a small book in which the poems of Helen Mort respond to massive Arctic landscapes
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London Grip Poetry Review – Fiona Moore
Emma Lee looks at the new Happenstance collection from Fiona Moore
London Grip Poetry Review – Will Holloway
Graham Hardie considers the range and substance of a debut collection by Will Holloway
London Grip Poetry Review – Neil Curry
Stuart Henson listens in to Neil Curry’s artful channeling of Virginia Woolf
A Third Colour
Merryn Williams shares a few thoughts about Alan Dunnett’s rather challenging poetry collection which seeks, among other things, to capture “the psychological fallout of anxiety in modern capitalist culture”
London Grip Poetry Review – Donald Gardner
Richie McCaffery finds the new pamphlet by Donald Gardner to have something of the weight of a full collection
London Grip Poetry Review – Keith Bosley
Keith Bosley’s expertise with language gives breadth to his poems without losing touch with the ordinary reader, observes Carla Scarano
London Grip Poetry Review – Mimi Khalvati
Norbert Hirschhorn delights in the discipline underpinning Mimi Khalvati’s poetry
London Grip Poetry Review – Phil Kirby
James Roderick Burns appreciates the way Phil Kirby handles darker aspects of life with honesty but without excluding hope
London Grip Poetry Review – John Fennelly
D A Prince admires John Fennelly’s attention to language and connections in this substantial new pamphlet
London Grip Poetry Review – Ruth Smith
Alex Josephy finds that Ruth Smith’s collection is one of those books which remind her why poetry is important
London Grip Poetry Review – Kevin Densley
Martin Noutch appreciates both the playfulness and the seriousness of Kevin Densley’s collection