Poetry review – TAXONOMIC VIGNETTES: Henry Schneiderman reviews a recent collection by Alan Cohen
year 2024
Poetry review – A NEWER WILDERNESS: Andrew Keanie considers a pamphlet by Nicola Healey which boldly tackles a difficult theme
Poetry review – MAKING DOLMADES IN ESSEX: Diana Cant visits a childhood and adolescence lived in the 1950’s and 60’s, brought to evocative life in Judith Wozniak’s debut collection.
THE MOON LOOKS ON THEM ALL: Angela Topping browses a collection of essays by John Lucas on the subject of friends and friendship
Poetry review – STAR: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch reviews a collection of Christmas poems by Angela Graham
Poetry review – COLLECTED POEMS: Edmund Prestwich is grateful for this full and eminently readable record of Fleur Adcock’s poetic creativity
Poetry review – OLD MEN: Paul McDonald finds plenty of verve and imagination as well as mature reflection in the latest collection by Peter Daniels
THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY: John Lucas reflects on variousness in this personal memoir by Graham Caveney
Poetry review – BEYOND THE LAST HOUSE: John Forth suspects that readers will enjoy this collection because Robert Etty enjoyed writing it
Poetry review – DRYPOINT: Edmund Prestwich admires the skill and economy in Jamie McKendrick’s poetry which leaves room for the reader’s own imagination
Poetry review – MUSIC, AWAKE HER: Edmund Prestwich admires both musicality and mutually illuminating images in a new collection by Martha Kapos
MIND AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE: John Lucas finds helpful information and some degree of comfort in James Hodgson’s primer for those trying to get to grips with AI and the issues surrounding it
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, psychology, society, technology, year 2024