Merryn Williams is pleased to get hold of the first – albeit brief – biography of the much admired Cornish poet Charles Causley.
Sarah Lawson has set her enjoyably teasing narrative ‘somewhere in a crease between the pages of the London A-Z’
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs considers a literary encounter that might have taken place in 1930s London
Merryn Williams is reminded of some traditional poetic virtues when reading the latest book by Simon Curtis.
Although very different in tone, the recent collections by Kathryn Maris and Maitreyabandhu have more in common than first appears
Alan Murray’s Perhaps turns out to be a very substantial slim volume
Leah Fritz warms to Norbert Hirschhorn’s fresh poetic treatment of Jewish traditional songs
Norbert Hirschhorn detects a Dali-esque streak in David Shook’s first collection
Thomas Ovans reflects on two poetry collections which take their inspiration from the past.
Chris Beckett follows the twists and turns of a collection that is both playful and serious…
Merryn Williams enjoys Wendy Klein’s colourful second collection.
Thomas Ovans confronts some radical views expressed in radical verse in Steve Ely’s latest collection
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, poetry-archive