London Grip comments on recent poetry collections by Andy Green, Mandy Coe, Caroline Davies and Mo Gallaccio
year 2016
This was the UK premiere for the Compagnie Marie Chouinard from Quebec. She started with Soft virtuosity, still humid, on the edge – a title that means nothing in English but perhaps has more resonance in French. Happily the work was far more exciting than the title.
Emma Lee reviews a prize-winning pamphlet by S A Leavesley
Thomas Ovans congratulates Ver Poets on their 50th birthday and on the anthology they have produced to celebrate it.
Nick Cooke surveys a collection by Michael Vince which spans ancient and modern worlds
Fiona Moore applauds Cristina Viti’s fine translation of Gezim Hajdari’s poems of exile
* This issue of London Grip features new poems by: *Brian Docherty *Tracey Peterson *Bruce Christianson *Caroline Am Bergris *Jonathan Taylor *Caroline Natzler *Mary Franklin *Gareth Culshaw * Abdulrahman M Abu-yaman *Brian Johnstone *Jane Henderson *Maggie Freeman * Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer *Oliver Comins *Teoti Jardine *Mary Michaels *Gary Beck *Racker Donnelly *Anthony Wilson *John Freeman *Bethany […]
Dangerous Liaisons: Brian Docherty pursues an unreliable narrator through the latest collection by Matthew Caley
D A Prince welcomes a new collection of William Wootten’s ‘modernist, yet traditional’ poetry
Teoti Jardine finds Harvey Molloy’s new collection both accessible and inviting
Leah Fritz surveys a generous selection of poems by Stanley Moss and finds work that is surprising and sometimes shocking – but is always perfectly controlled
Roger Caldwell discerns a remarkable felicity of phrasing in Matthew Barton’s third collection.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 0 • Tags: books, poetry, Roger Caldwell