Poetry Review – Crawling Out and Falling Up: Fiona Sinclair waxes lyrical about the poetic gifts of Donall Dempsey
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When Pythagoras met Homer: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs recalls a time when being a mathematician was like being a poet.
Poetry Review – Morning Walk with Dead Possum, Breakfast and Parallel Universe: Alex Josephy admits that Beth Gordon’s poems makes demands on the reader but insists that they repay time and effort
Poetry Review – Isabella: Julie Hogg admires Caroline Maldonado’s sensitive translations and re-telling of Isabella Morra’s story
Poetry Review – Dad Remember You Are Dead: Alwyn Marriage reckons that Jacqueline Saphra’s new collection is a book to wake the reader up
* LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY – Winter 2019. This issue features: * Edmund Prestwich * Kate Noakes * Michael Crowley * Maggie Butt * Emma Lee *Tom Sommerville *Gordon Wood * Thomas Tyrrell *Anthony Dawson * Robert Nisbet * Wendy French *Stephen Claughton * Anne Ballard * Jan-An Saab * Sue Rose * Raymond Miller […]
Poetry Review – Blue Wallpaper: John Forth is impressed by the autobiographical element in Robert Hamberger’s new collection
Social Solidarity and the Arts in Woke Times: Michael Crowley advocates against an ever-increasing subdivision of the arts into racial, age-related or gender groups for a similar audience
David Mitchell reviews A History of Water in the Middle East at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court
Poetry Review – Exposure. Stephen Claughton reviews a collection by Derek Adams which sharply captures key moments in the life of photographer Lee Miller
Poetry Review – The Possibility of Innocence. Jefferson Holdridge takes a measured look at a collection of thoughtful poems by Nicholas Bielby
Poetry Review: The Shape of a Tulip Bird. Maria C. McCarthy finds these poems of loss by Christopher Hopkins to be compelling yet almost unbearable
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, Maria C. McCarthy, poetry