Carla Scarano considers a dystopia convincingly described in a prose-poem sequence by Carole Coates
year 2019
Thomas Ovans is moved by Steve Rudd’s very personal poems about the NHS
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is drawn into a mysterious world conjured up by Michael Loveday’s enigmatic prose pieces
D A Prince commends Tom Sastry as a poet who looks at the world in fresh ways while still leaving space for his readers
Maria C. McCarthy reviews a new short story collection by Anne Walsh Donnelly
Emma Lee follows poems by Victoria Gatehouse as they take a sometimes clinical view of the journey from young woman to parent
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs tackles a difficult read which attempts to bring home some human realities of street violence in London
Stuart Henson commends a pamphlet in which poems by Katharine Towers have the space to breathe and to resonate with one another
During my last week in Calgary I still had to do some shopping, visit the Glenbow museum, the Zoo and Lougheed house, a villa belonging to a rich Métis family.
I visited two places out of Calgary: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and Banff, thanks to my friend Pam who drove me there and toured me around.
On 1st July, Canada Day, I was up and ready since early morning wearing a red T-shirt and red cowboy hat.
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Emma Storr is drawn into Gareth Writer-Davies’s poetic reflections on mortality