Wendy French commends a serious and significant chapbook collection from Paul Stephenson
year 2017
David Cooke finds Joan Margarit to be a poet of authentic experience who does not rely on tricks or strain after effect.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) were both sons of artists, both mastered realism at an early age, both left their native countries and both turned up in Paris, where they met for the first time in 1931 and enjoyed a working friendship that flourished until the 1950s.
Reading Gail White’s collection makes D A Prince think again about some conventional assessments of ‘light’ verse
Roderick Burns is taken aback by the diversity of a short story collection from Nigel Jarrett
John Lucas reviews collections from Gregory Woods and George Tardios
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, John Lucas, poetry