Michael Bartholomew-Biggs enjoys exploring and sometimes unravelling the tightly wrought poems in a first collection by New Zealand poet John Dennison
poetry reviews
Emma Lee finds the new collection from Richard Thomas is one that benefits from being re-visited.
Birds may be delightfully ever-present in Tim Cunningham’s new collection; but John Forth finds that the poems amount to much more than merely a nature tour
Thomas Ovans finds that Jo Colley’s flying-related collection deals with much more than aeroplanes
Merryn Williams is moved by the celebrations of lives of past and present friends in Pat Buik’s latest chapbook.
Fiona Sinclair is convinced by the authenticity of the many-sided love poems in a new collection by Maggie Harris
Richie McCaffery reviews two chapbook offerings from recently established Wayleave Press:
London Grip’s poetry editor is pleased to discover that, in his most recent collection, Hugo Williams continues to use his distinctive poetic voice to remarkable effect.
John Lucas welcomes a multi-faceted new poetry collection by Mihaela Moscaliuc
Thomas Ovans admires Rhona McAdam for finding many poetic ways of looking backwards at places, people and formative experiences
John Forth examines a dark and often funny poetic exposure, by Martin Hayes, of the politics of a soul-less work place
David Cooke gives an appreciative overview of a comprehensive new anthology of Russian poetry
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, literature, poetry reviews, year 2015