Neil Fulwood compliments David Clarke on not putting a foot wrong in his poetic assessment of present day Britain
East India Dock Road, site of Queen Victoria Seamen’s Rest forms part of the A13, which links Aldgate in the City of London to Shoeburyness, forty miles away on the shore of the North Sea – so, not the most obvious place to build a refuge for seafarers.
Angela Topping admires Jane Burn’s fleetness of word in a new narrative sequence
Wendy French considers a sizeable collection by Chris Armstrong and finds it honest about love, loss and the joy of being alive
D A Prince reviews an excellent debut pamphlet by Joe Carrick-Varty
Julie Hogg engages with a deeply thought-provoking collection by Dorothy Lehane
In 1894, Edouard Michelin, the fine artist of a gifted family, looked at a pile of tyres and said to his engineer brother André: “With arms and legs, that would look like a man.”
Alex Josephy judges Warda Yassin’s chapbook to be the work of a promising and confident new poet
Nicholas Bielby works through some initial difficulties in getting to grips with Tim O’Leary’s poetry
Wendy Klein enjoys Keith Hutson’s artful recapturing of the atmosphere of Music Hall
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs finds that Danielle Hope’s translations provide a very accessible introduction to Giovanni Pascoli’s poetry
Angela Topping looks at a successful collaboration between Rebecca Goss & Chris Routledge
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, photography, poetry reviews, year 2019 1 • Tags: Angela Topping, books, photography, poetry