Poetry Review ā PATIENT WATCHING: Diana Cant listens, watches and waits as Judith Wozniak introduces her to the compassionate working life of a general practitioner
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Poetry review ā BY DEGREES: Carole Bromley is confident that David Taitās pandemic poems will stand the test of time
Poetry review – PANDORAāS PANDEMIC: Sue Wallace-Shaddad considers Alwyn Marriageās honest but hopeful poetic account of life in a time of covid-19
Poetry review- WHEN THE SWIMMING POOL FELL INTO THE SEA: Paul McDonald champions āslim volumesā and admires the way that poems enhance one another in Carole Coatesās new collection.
Poetry review – LEARNING FROM THE BODY: Emma Storr reviews Sue Butlerās chapbook which draws on her experience as a family doctor
Poetry Review ā WHAT IF?: Maxine Linnell gets to know June Hall through the honesty of her poetry
Poetry Review – LITANY OF A CARDIOLOGIST: Carla Scarano considers a tightly-focussed debut collection by poet and heart specialist Denise Bundred
Poetry Review – Heart Murmur: Thomas Ovans enjoys Emma Storrās use of medical language to make well-crafted and engaging poetry.
Merryn Williams reviews an anthology of poems about the NHS which express both gratitude and anxiety
Thomas Ovans discovers that poetry and medicine can mix rather well in this handsome anthology from Hippocrates Press
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Poetry review – MIRROR, MIRROR: IN THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE HEAD: Alwyn Marriage looks squarely at Sam Smithās uncompromising poems about mental health patients and those who care for them