Peter Daniels takes note of some carefully negotiated poems from Joan Michelson
Roger Caldwell finds that Alice Major composes poetry with a brain as well as a heart
Peter Ualrig Kennedy finds some interesting nuggets in a rather uneven collection by Matt Nicholson.
Carla Scarano reflects on Jane Weir’s collection of poems on refiguring relationships and gender roles
D A Prince examines a very well-integrated collection of poems from Oliver Comins
Martin Noutch respects the honesty with which Hannah Hodgson makes poetry out of serious illness
The museum in Doughty Street, London, has a temporary exhibition to revisit the established view that Dickens had no truck with science, presenting the discipline not so surprisingly as an extension of his concern with social justice and reform rather than abstract theory.
Carla Scarano admires Dawn Wood’s poetry which deals with the healing power of imagination
Martin Noutch appreciates both the playfulness and the seriousness of Kevin Densley’s collection
Born in the Normandy port of Honfleur in 1824, son of a mariner and whose dying wish was to return to the coast, Eugene Boudin had an instinctive understanding of the play of light on water and in the sky.
Writer, philosopher and English aristocrat Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) was way ahead of her time and she knew it, writing: “I regard not so much the present but future ages”.
James Roderick Burns enjoys Judi Sutherland’s disciplined and penetrating poems
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2018 0 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry