Merryn Williams admires the seemingly-inexhaustible poetic skill on show in a double collection from Ruth Bidgood
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Peter Ulric Kennedy critiques Graham Hardie’s ambitious and eclectic poems
A memoir by Bernard Green tells the story of a transport café over sixty years before and after World War two.
Thomas Ovans recognizes the sweep and complexity of a first novel from Jane Kirwan
David Cooke examines Gill Learner’s new collection and finds a poet with a distinctive voice and many worthwhile things to say.
Graham Hardie admires the poetic agility with which Ruth Valentine explores some dark themes.
A spiritual autobiography by Murray Bodo turns out to be an unexpectedly down-to-earth story
A short collection by Amy Schreibman Walter deals evocatively with women experiencing various kinds of longing: but Emma Lee wonders whether the voice is sometimes too passive
Richard Caldwell enthuses, to varying degrees, about the four American poets on show in a new anthology edited by Anthony Costello
Graham Hardie considers Alan Price’s chapbook of prose poems inspired by the work of Walter Benjamin
A Route Map of Liquid Thought: Brian Docherty takes a look into and around Linda Black’s latest collection
Pam Thompson finds something magical and unsettling in Peter Sansom’s shifting, complex poetry.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 0 • Tags: books, Pam Thompson, poetry