Poetry review – PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER AS A SNAIL: Katrina Moinet looks at a tender and searching examination by Kelly Davis of her father’s life
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Poetry review – SEANG (HUNGER): Belinda Cooke reviews a moving account by Anne Casey describing a people’s displacement and ill treatment
Poetry review – TREESONGS: Charles Rammelkamp is entranced by Amy Barone’s sensitive and uplifting celebrations of nature
Poetry review – THE WAY THE WATER HELD ME: Pam Thompson considers Catherine Redford’s poems of bereavement in which Mary Shelley becomes a companion in grief
Poetry review – SIGNALS TO THE DISAPPEARING SHORE: Kate Ashton is moved and impressed by these poems in which Aidan Semmens confronts dark episodes in world history, both past and present
Poetry review – CROSSING THE HINGE : Nick Cooke praises Mandy Pannett for scrupulously avoiding dishonesty and self-deception in her poems about the challenges facing our world
Poetry review – DREAM LOGIC: Vanessa Napolitano is enthusiastic about a debut collection from Satya Bosman
Poetry review – PLYMBRIDGE: D A Prince reviews a collection by Anthony Wilson which draws together memories from different times, making some sometimes surprising connections
Poetry review – TIGRESS WITH WINGS: Sue Wallace-Shaddad is impressed by Rupinder Kaur Waraich’s vivid poems on growing up within Indian culture
Poetry review – LIES BLURRING HERE: Nick Cooke looks at a new collection by Adam Piette which is concerned both with the search for clarity and the avoidance of it
Poetry review – AS GRASS BECOMES FLESH: Colin Carberry explores the complex poetic world conjured by Michael Lee Rattigan’s imagination
Poetry review – DODDER DAUGHTER: Belinda Cooke looks at poems of loss by Nessa O’Mahony which are enhanced by their surroundings, both domestic and natural
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