poetry reviews

Norbert Hirschhorn finds mythic significance behind a word & image collaboration between an artist and a poet

Muscular rhyming, syntactical gymnastics and remarkable clarity – John Forth finds all these in John Levett’s poetry.

Emma Lee appreciates the reflective quality of a farewell collection by Joanna Boulter

Thomas Ovans explores the complexities of Bethany Pope’s intense & tightly-wrought poetry

Paul McLoughlin admires the substance as well as the style of Adrian Caesar’s poetry

Anna Robinson’s half-fantasy, half-dream poem sequence strikes a chord with Richie McCaffery

Thomas Ovans finds that Josh Ekroy’s military-related poems usually hit their target

First & second opinions: John Harvey’s latest poetry collection is reviewed by Rosie Johnston AND by Norbert Hirschhorn

Rosie Johnston is carried along by the energy and generosity of Stephen Watts’ poetry

Norbert Hirschhorn takes a long cool look at a new poetry & art volume from Australia

Leah Fritz enjoys contrasting – but equally life-embracing – collections from two Amsterdam-based poets

Ruth Valentine examines collections by Barbara Marsh, Nadine Brummer & Wendy Pratt and considers how they deal poetically with death and dying.