Poetry review – PANDORA’S PANDEMIC: Sue Wallace-Shaddad considers Alwyn Marriage’s honest but hopeful poetic account of life in a time of covid-19
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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.
Poetry review – LEARNING FROM THE BODY: Emma Storr reviews Sue Butler’s chapbook which draws on her experience as a family doctor
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
Poetry review – BY DEGREES: Carole Bromley is confident that David Tait’s pandemic poems will stand the test of time
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, medicine, poetry reviews, society, year 2021 • Tags: books, Carole Bromley, medicine, poetry, society