Emma Lee praises Jason Lee’s collection as an excellent example of Eyewear’s distinctive house style
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Poems in this collection by Owen Lewis make a lasting impression on Wendy French
Wendy French is happy to follow where Siobhan Campbell’s poetry leads the way
Shining Like Clara Bow: Brian Docherty celebrates an overdue first collection from performance poet Alice Denny
Merryn Williams considers books by two poets with vivid imaginations which they use in different ways: Andrew Wynn Owen veers towards mythology while Rennie Parker finds anarchy closer to everyday life.
Authority on literature Terry Eagleton tells us tragedy is unfashionable: “Its tone is too solemn and portentous for a streetwise, sceptical culture”. If that’s true now, it was also true in 1641 when James Shirley’s finest work was one of the last plays staged in England before Oliver Cromwell’s solemn ban on theatre.
Richie McCaffery is pleased to have a chance to get better acquainted with D M Black’s poetry
Perspectives on Poetry: John Lucas examines three recent studies exploring the craft and ideas of three eminent poets .
Richie McCaffery takes a particular and personal interest in a new collection from Dutch poet Arnold Jansen op de Haar
Now best-known for writing the novel A Clockwork Orange, which Stanley Kubrick turned into the ultra-violent film of 1971, Anthony Burgess died on 22nd November 1993.
James Roderick Burns raises some questions of balance in relation to Susan Utting’s recent ‘New & Selected’
Alex Josephy finds that Pat Farrington’s poems take a realistic rather than an overly romantic look at nature
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, ecology, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: Alex Josephy, books, ecology, poetry