Poetry review – MUSIC, AWAKE HER: Edmund Prestwich admires both musicality and mutually illuminating images in a new collection by Martha Kapos
Safe Haven. Review by Barbara Lewis. “Oh enemy, the Kurdish people live on,” is how the Kurdish National Anthem defiantly begins. In the aftermath of the first Gulf War, the survival of many of them was helped by Operation Safe Haven, an initiative pushed through by then Prime Minister John Major.
Poetry review – A HANDFUL OF WASPS: Lucy Winrow views a year through Stuart Henson’s haiku sequence drawn from observations recorded in real time
Poetry review – POSSIBLY A POMEGRANATE: Pat Edwards welcomes Alwyn Marriage’s new collection which is subtitled Celebrating Womankind
Poetry review – EARWIG COUNTRY: DA Prince is drawn into Angela Topping’s poems about memories and connections
Poetry review – CONTINUOUS PRESENT: Kate Noakes admires D A Prince’s imaginative celebrations of the average and the ordinary
. Poetry review – LILITH SPEAKS: Pam Thompson admires a short collection by Clare Proctor which manages to shift through many situations
Gerry & Sewell. Review by Barbara Lewis. Gerry and Sewell are two friends who have little beyond their loyalty to each other and to their team: Newcastle United. Their one dream is to have the money to buy a season ticket.
* LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY #58 – WINTER 2025 features poems by: *Michael Carrino *James Croal Jackson *David Lewitzky *John Grey *Anne Eyries *Merryn Williams *Andrew Shields *John Whitehouse *Jim Murdoch *Julie-Ann Rowell *Kathryn Southworth *Michael Loveday *Kathleen Bell *Jill Sharp *David Dumouriez *Michael Klimeš *Christine McNeill *Caleb Murdock *Pam Job *Solape Adetutu Adeyemi *Brian […]
Poetry review – SOME DISTANT PIN OF LIGHT: Peter Mladinic finds wonder and mystery in this collection by Francine Witte
Poetry review – ABOVE THE TREELINE: Chris Beckett feels welcomed into this well-crafted and multilayered collection by Nora Hughes
Poetry review – DRYPOINT: Edmund Prestwich admires the skill and economy in Jamie McKendrick’s poetry which leaves room for the reader’s own imagination
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2024