Thomas Ovans is very grateful to Paul McLoughlin and Shoestring Press for republishing some of the best work of the poet Brian Jones.
poetry reviews
Norbert Hirschhorn finds a strong and distinctive voice and character running through the new collection by Jackie Wills.
John Greening discusses recent collections by two eminent Irish poets
Vaughan Rapatahana seeks, in relatively few words, to give a flavour of Alan Corkish’s monumental and challenging 25,000-word semi-autobiographical poem
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs takes in Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s poetic impressions of a residency at Keats House
Paul McLoughlin reviews a collection set in the 1930s which recreates a lost age that was both golden and flawed.
Angela Kirby’s latest collection artfully encompasses both broad humour and tightly controlled grief
D A Prince finds good things in Caroline Squire’s prize-winning pamphlet collection.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs welcomes the reappearance of some half-hidden R.S. Thomas poems
Thomas Ovans confronts some radical views expressed in radical verse in Steve Ely’s latest collection
Merryn Williams is reminded of some traditional poetic virtues when reading the latest book by Simon Curtis.
Merryn Williams is thankful that many poets remain unconvinced about the necessity of war and find compelling ways to say so in this new anthology
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • art, books, poetry reviews, Year 2014