Stuart Henson enjoys Richie McCaffery’s conversational and sharp-witted poetry – and his knack of crafting a good punch-line.
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Angela Topping admires Mark Mansfield’s carefully controlled and crafted poems for their plain speaking
Merryn Williams loves anthologies and finds this collection of travel poems to be a good and inspiring example
Jessica Mookherjee’s collection Flood contains poems so fiercely inventive that “Riptide” might even be a fitting title observes Brian Docherty
Thomas Ovans takes a close look at a collection of haiku by James Roderick Burns
Josephine Corcoran’s poetry succeeds in addressing both actual and imagined experience, observes Emma Lee
Roger Caldwell is intrigued – but sometimes perplexed – by the work of three Finnish poets writing in English
Martin Noutch respects Ann Vaughan-Williams’ poetry for its inclusiveness that finds nothing to be unworthy of being appreciated
Its title notwithstanding, Elizabeth Parker’s new collection is far from being shambolic, observes Wendy Klein
Wendy French responds to the compassion in Hubert Moore’s poetry
John Forth appreciates a carefully-compiled first collection by Andrew Geary
Nick Cooke examines an ambitious biographical poem-sequence by Patricia McCarthy
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2018 0 • Tags: books, Nick Cooke, poetry