Merryn Williams considers books by two poets with vivid imaginations which they use in different ways: Andrew Wynn Owen veers towards mythology while Rennie Parker finds anarchy closer to everyday life.
Richie McCaffery is pleased to have a chance to get better acquainted with D M Black’s poetry
Perspectives on Poetry: John Lucas examines three recent studies exploring the craft and ideas of three eminent poets .
Richie McCaffery takes a particular and personal interest in a new collection from Dutch poet Arnold Jansen op de Haar
Now best-known for writing the novel A Clockwork Orange, which Stanley Kubrick turned into the ultra-violent film of 1971, Anthony Burgess died on 22nd November 1993.
James Roderick Burns raises some questions of balance in relation to Susan Utting’s recent ‘New & Selected’
Peter Ulric Kennedy finds Kate Noakes’ new collection to be an invigorating compilation of open verse with Parisian overtones.
Ruth Valentine considers the balance between politics and poetics in Alan Morrison’s new collection
London Grip reviews four recent poetry pamphlets from Rack Press
D A Prince explores the latest collection by Millicent Borges Accardi and finds the poet an intriguingly elusive presence
Jeremy Wikeley gives his reactions to the exhibition Larkinworld which is currently at the Poetry Library, Southbank Centre
Shining Like Clara Bow: Brian Docherty celebrates an overdue first collection from performance poet Alice Denny
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 0 • Tags: books, Brian Docherty, poetry