poetry reviews

Richie McCaffery enjoys a poetry festschrift put together for the 80th birthday of poet, critic and publisher John Lucas

Emma Lee savours new poetry from Matthew Stewart.

Alex Josephy finds Maria McCarthy’s poetic description of the vanishing Kent orchards to be more hopeful than might be imagined

Peter Daniels finds that Philip Fried’s new collection displays wit, inventiveness and erudition to a degree that becomes almost daunting.

Kathryn Daszkiewicz’s new collection has a carefully worked structure and D A Prince enjoys spending time in the company of its closely-linked poems

Transforming Things Into Other Things: Paul McLoughlin examines closely what Matthew Francis has done with a Mediaeval Welsh epic

Wendy Klein admires the craft with which John Mole makes poetry out of the deepest of feelings.

Graham Hardie browses an enjoyably varied chapbook collection from Maxine Linnell

Roger Caldwell considers an impressively substantial volume of poems by Robert Desnos with translations by Timothy Adès

John Forth investigates the thinking behind the poems in Peter Bland’s latest collection

Peter Ualrig Kennedy finds real depths in Chris Hardy’s recent collection.

Thomas Ovans looks at myth and reality as handled in a debut pamphlet from Kitty Coles