poetry reviews

Emma Lee takes a cool look at the poetry of Hera Lindsay Bird

Nick Cooke relishes Stephen Bone’s poetic exploration of some darker aspects of botany

James Roderick Burns finds that Angela Topping’s poetry exercises a powerful force upon the reader

Paul McLoughlin is impressed by the breadth of subject matter from which Alan Dixon can make poetry

Danielle Hope samples some double delights from Shoestring Press: featuring football – Paul McLoughin – and small creatures – Nadine Brummer

Richie McCaffery examines a new anthology of Palestinian poetry, edited by Naomi Foyle, and finds it eye-opening

Carla Scarano finds Caroline Price’s poetry to be flowing and enigmatic

Thomas Ovans discovers that poetry and medicine can mix rather well in this handsome anthology from Hippocrates Press

Roger Caldwell gives a thoughtful appraisal of a carefully chosen selection of Michael Schmidt’s poetry

Sarah Lawson draws attention to a posthumously published collection in which Sarah Getty’s intelligence and wit still live on

John Forth finds that John Levett’s new collection raises a number of questions

Fiona Sinclair commends Michael Rosen’s use of poetry to make some telling political points