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.
Cris Beckett follows the twists and turns of a collection that is both playful and serious… The Prince of Wails Stephen Knight CB Editions, 2012 ISBN 978-0-9567359-6-6 pp 64 £7.99
Merryn Williams enjoys Wendy Klein’s colourful second collection Anything in Turquoise.
Robert Nisbet admires ASH TREE a strong and deeply touching collection by Sue Millard
* THE AUTUMN 2013 ISSUE OF LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY features poems by: *Rodney Wood *F.M.Brown *Rik Wilkinson *Sissy Buckles *Robert Etty *Antony Johae *Ruth Bidgood *Elizabeth Smither *Elizabeth Barrett *Sonam Chhoki *Deborah Tyler-Bennett *Shadwell Smith *Jonathan Taylor *Bruce Christianson *Robert Peake *Robert Nisbet *Pam Job
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs does his best to give an adequate appreciation of a dense, complex and rewarding collection. Drysalter Michael Symmons Roberts Jonathan Cape ISBN 978-0224093590 pp 176
Norbert Hirschhorn reflects on a poetry and prose memoir that gives an inside view of the National Health Service at a time when it may be about to change forever. Born in the NHS by Wendy French & Jane Kirwan The Hippocrates Press (London, 2013) ISBN 978-0-957-9572571-2-2 pp 240 £12
Merryn Williams is reminded of some traditional poetic virtues when reading the latest book by Simon Curtis.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, Year 2013