Worlds Apart. Review by Julia Pascal. This memoir is an astonishing chronicle of recent German history seen through the eyes of a girl born in the East and brought up in the West. Except that she was not brought up at all.
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Poetry review – THE LUCK: Alex Josephy admires the craft and quiet humour in Jane Routh’s poem’s celebrating the importance of the natural world
Poetry review – ALEPH BET: Wendy Klein admires the poetry that Sue Rose can extract from her study of the Hebrew alphabet
Poetry Review – COMPASS LIGHT: Stuart Henson looks into the spiritual and temporal depths of a new collection by Hilary Davies
Quarantaine. Review by Barbara Lewis. Flanders in its golden age produced the painters Van Eyck and Memling. Around six centuries on, the work of Belgian conceptual artist Honoré δ’O, at first sight bears no relation to his aesthetic forebears.
Poetry review – CELL: Nick Cooke takes a serious look at the very serious themes addressed in a powerful new collection by Ruth O’Callaghan
Poetry review – SONNETS FOR MY MOTHER AS LEAR: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is impressed by Martin Malone’s poems about the challenges of caring for an elderly parent
Poetry review – BREATHING: Gareth Writer-Davies find that there is much to read between the lines of David Van-Cauter’s poetry
Poetry review- THE INVISIBLE MAN’S TAILOR: Neil Elder welcomes an unusual and original debut collection from Patrick Meeds
Poetry review – BLUE IN GREEN: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs enjoys the warm and upbeat tone of John Harvey’s latest chapbook
WAYWARD THOUGHTS – Pat Edwards reviews a poetry and lute collaboration by Cheryl Moskowitz and Sam Brown
Poetry review – ALIGHTING IN TIME: Alwyn Marriage explores and enjoys the distinctive language and worldview in Lynne Wycherley’s new collection
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2025