Poetry review – STAR: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch reviews a collection of Christmas poems by Angela Graham
poetry reviews
POOR: Nicki Heinen revisits Caleb Femi’s prize-winning collection from a few years ago
Poetry review – WING FORMULA: Sue Wallace-Shaddad enjoys a promising debut pamphlet by Emilie Jelinek
Poetry review – WITH SIGNS FOLLOWING: Rennie Halstead finds a tension between poetic craft and accessibility in this collection by David Ricks
Poetry review – MAKING DOLMADES IN ESSEX: Diana Cant visits a childhood and adolescence lived in the 1950’s and 60’s, brought to evocative life in Judith Wozniak’s debut collection.
No Part-Time Dreamer: A review of Anju Makhija’s New & Selected Poems by Debasish Lahiri
Poetry review – EARWIG COUNTRY: DA Prince is drawn into Angela Topping’s poems about memories and connections
Poetry review – THE NEW HERBAL: Nick Cooke finds a way through the complex poems in Fran Lock’s latest pamphlet
Poetry review –NAMING A HURRICANE: Charles Rammelkamp is astonished by the forceful and personal poetry in Madeline Artenberg’s new collection
Poetry review – SHAKING THE APPLE TREE: Kimberly K Williams considers an important collection of witness poems by Jane Simpson
Poetry review – BLOOD IS BLACK IN THE SHADOWS: Charles Rammelkamp finds unexpected pleasures amid the bleakness of Dennis Gulling’s poetic vignettes
Poetry review – SELF GEOFFERENTIAL: Charles Rammelkamp takes two-fold pleasure from Geoffrey Gatza’s new collection
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2025 • Tags: books, Charles Rammelkamp, poetry