Poetry review – LEARNING FROM THE BODY: Emma Storr reviews Sue Butler’s chapbook which draws on her experience as a family doctor
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Poetry Review – WHAT IF?: Maxine Linnell gets to know June Hall through the honesty of her poetry
Poetry review – WAVELENGTHS: Carla Scarano browses a collection in which the two voices of Belinda Singleton and Kathryn Southworth speculate on scientific phenomena
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 Storr’s use of medical language to make well-crafted and engaging poetry.
When Pythagoras met Homer: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs recalls a time when being a mathematician was like being a poet.
In 1894, Edouard Michelin, the fine artist of a gifted family, looked at a pile of tyres and said to his engineer brother André: “With arms and legs, that would look like a man.”
Merryn Williams reviews an anthology of poems about the NHS which express both gratitude and anxiety
Roger Caldwell finds that Alice Major composes poetry with a brain as well as a heart
Thomas Ovans discovers that poetry and medicine can mix rather well in this handsome anthology from Hippocrates Press
Peter Daniels finds that Philip Fried’s new collection displays wit, inventiveness and erudition to a degree that becomes almost daunting.
Poetry review- WHEN THE SWIMMING POOL FELL INTO THE SEA: Paul McDonald champions ‘slim volumes’ and admires the way that poems enhance one another in Carole Coates’s new collection.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, medicine, poetry reviews, psychology, year 2021 • Tags: books, medicine, Paul McDonald, poetry, psychology