year 2016

D A Prince is intrigued by the methods and the outcome of a poet-artist collaboration between Judith Wilkinson and Ditty Doornbos

Shanta Acharya finds that Mark Abley’s New & Selected is a fitting testimony to his poetic vision and skill

A short review by Merryn Williams enters fully into the spirit of Jan Owen’s Baudelaire-based jeu d’esprit

Roxana Nastase is moved by Robin Wyatt Dunn’s carefully weighted political poetry

Nick Cooke expresses measured enthusiasm for a promising debut chapbook from Paul Blake

Richie McCaffery enjoys meeting Kate Foley and accompanying her on a journey through her New & Selected Poems

Wendy French praises the eye for detail that reveals itself through Sue MacIntyre’s poetry

Peter Ulric Kennedy sizes up the strengths of Antony Johae’s poetry of Middle Eastern experience

Graham Hardie takes a close look at the elements making up a new collection by Christopher Southgate

Emma Lee finds that Myra Schneider is on good form in her new mythic-flavoured collection

Wendy French is enthusiastic about an ancient Greek sailor’s navigation log being given a poetic update by Leslie Saunders

London Grip comments on recent collections by Rosemary Norman, Julia Webb & Abegail Morley