Robin Houghton’s new chapbook reminds Martin Noutch of the excitement and the challenge of moving into a new home
Year 2014
Merryn Williams is thankful that many poets remain unconvinced about the necessity of war and find compelling ways to say so in this new anthology
Anna Robinson praises the economy and lightness of touch at the heart of Geraldine Paine’s poetry
Thomas Ovans is impressed by Roger Owen’s absorbing and lucid introduction to the work of the Welsh dramatist Gwenlyn Parry
Rosie Johnston’s poetry is tightly structured but it still allows room for growth and movement, observes Emma Lee
Thomas Ovans discovers warm, positive and life-affirming poems in Heart Archives.
* This issue of London Grip New Poetry features poems by: *Teoti Jardine *Carol DeVaughn *Michael Lee Johnson *John Snelling *Robert Nisbet *Louise Warren *Jennie Christian *Ricky Garni *Kate Foley *Christopher Mulrooney *Ian C Smith *Shanta Acharya *Jennifer Johnson *Ruth Bidgood *Robert Chandler
Rosie Johnston is pleased to find both a sense of the dramatic and a feeling for the past in this first collection by Jean Watkins
Emma Lee finds Maria Jastrzebska’s memory-poems both personal and inclusive.
Thomas Ovans is very grateful to Paul McLoughlin and Shoestring Press for republishing some of the best work of the poet Brian Jones.
Fiona Sinclair reviews a new collection of short stories by Maria McCarthy, finding them both harrowing and hopeful.
D A Prince admires the careful construction of John Greening‘s new collection To the War Poets and is pleased by the way it trusts the reader to look deeper into the subject-matter.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, Year 2014