London Grip Poetry Review – Abley
Shanta Acharya finds that Mark Abley’s New & Selected is a fitting testimony to his poetic vision and skill
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London Grip Poetry Review – Owen
A short review by Merryn Williams enters fully into the spirit of Jan Owen’s Baudelaire-based jeu d’esprit
London Grip Poetry Review – Dunn
Roxana Nastase is moved by Robin Wyatt Dunn’s carefully weighted political poetry
London Grip Poetry Review – Blake
Nick Cooke expresses measured enthusiasm for a promising debut chapbook from Paul Blake
London Grip Poetry Review – Foley
Richie McCaffery enjoys meeting Kate Foley and accompanying her on a journey through her New & Selected Poems
London Grip Poetry Review – MacIntyre
Wendy French praises the eye for detail that reveals itself through Sue MacIntyre’s poetry
London Grip Poetry Review – Johae
Peter Ulric Kennedy sizes up the strengths of Antony Johae’s poetry of Middle Eastern experience
London Grip Poetry Review – Southgate
Graham Hardie takes a close look at the elements making up a new collection by Christopher Southgate
London Grip Poetry Review – Schneider
Emma Lee finds that Myra Schneider is on good form in her new mythic-flavoured collection
London Grip Poetry Review – Saunders
Wendy French is enthusiastic about an ancient Greek sailor’s navigation log being given a poetic update by Leslie Saunders
Poetry mini-reviews – Norman, Webb, Morley
London Grip comments on recent collections by Rosemary Norman, Julia Webb & Abegail Morley
London Grip Poetry Review – Wilkinson & Doornbos
D A Prince is intrigued by the methods and the outcome of a poet-artist collaboration between Judith Wilkinson and Ditty Doornbos