Poetry review – MENAGERIE: Angela Topping enjoys a delightful illustrated chapbook by Cheryl Pearson
year 2020
Poetry Review – VIVARIUM: the hidden violence of passing time, climate-change, history and the sense of self – Eret Talviste finds all this in Maarja Pärtna’s poetry
Poetry Review – RARE BIRDS: Angela Topping is moved and impressed by Natalie Scott’s poems about a women’s prison
Poetry Review – QUOTIDIAN: Peter Ualrig Kennedy waxes enthusiastic over this robust and well crafted collection by Paul Waring.
Ghost Light, National Theatre of Scotland film. A theatre never goes completely dark, even in lockdown: a single light bulb, known as a ghost light, carries on glowing like a sanctuary lamp.
Poetry Review- THE COMING-DOWN TIME: Mat Riches suggests that Robert Selby’s poetry is not to be rushed either in the reading or the composition
Poetry Review – MONICA’S OVERCOAT OF FLESH: Pam Thompson admires Geraldine Clarkson’s poetry for being both imaginative and grounded.
Poetry review – STEM: Carla Scarano reviews a collection by Belinda Cooke which looks perceptively and acceptingly at human frailties
A paradox at the heart of Beckett is that he uses art to explore the meaninglessness of human lives, when many would say the prime purpose of art is to find meaning.
Poetry review – LETTERS HOME: D A Prince explores Jennifer Wong’s challenging collection about multiple threads of identity
Poetry review – BELLADONNA: Mat Riches finds many layers in a small chapbook by Suna Afshan
Poetry review – HOTEL: Julie Hogg finds promise in a first collection by Ali Lewis
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 0 • Tags: books, Julie Hogg, poetry