poetry reviews

Norbert Hirschhorn acknowledges the craft and potency of Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s poetry

Alex Josephy finds Abegail Morley’s fascinating new collection builds to much more than the sum of its parts

D A Prince becomes fully engaged with John Fuller’s witty and ingenious use of form

Peter Ualrig Kennedy is full of admiration for the spare elegance of Gordon Meade’s poetic discourse on being faced with cancer.

Paul McLoughlin admires both the craft and the range of Alistair Elliot’s third collection from Shoestring Press

Emma Lee is pleased by the musical elements in a new collection by Reuben Woolley

Stuart Henson considers the elegance of two pamphlets by Martyn Crucefix.

Jeremy Wikeley is impressed by a competition-winning first collection from Sean Wai Keung

Wendy Klein commends Martin Malone’s new chapbook which revisits the first World War in the centenary year of its ending

Wendy French admires an anthology of work by deaf and disabled poets

Shanta Acharya takes an in-depth look at a new collection by R V Bailey

John Forth welcomes Robert Walton’s second collection – even if it comes a long time after the first