Poetry review – AS GRASS BECOMES FLESH: Colin Carberry explores the complex poetic world conjured by Michael Lee Rattigan’s imagination
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Poetry review – TRACKS IN SNOW: Charles Rammelkamp sees past the superficial assessment that Thaddeus Rutkowski’s poems are light and understated
DIABOLICALLY GOOD: Charles Rammelkamp enjoys Drew Pisarra’s imaginative exploration of the movie career and afterlife of horror icon Vincent Price
Poetry review – RUST CANYON: Alex Josephy considers Lauren Mason’s highly effective eco-poetry which uses a particular story to alert readers to the wider dangers facing our planet
Poetry review – THE KAMA SUTRA FOR SENIOR CITIZENS: Peter Daniels admires a collection by Zack Rogow which brings wit and generosity to matters which, sooner or later, will be of concern to us all
WIVES AND WOMEN: Dale Scherfling reflects on Ernest Hemingway’s life through the women who helped shape it — seeing them not as supporting characters, but as individuals
Poetry review – VOX WAH WAH: Mat Riches enjoys browsing this short, guitar-themed collection by Hilary Menos
Poetry review – 55 DEVOTIONALS (AGAINST ERASURE): Peter Daniels considers Andrew McDonnell’s poems about loss and its inevitability
Poetry review – NEW AND SELECTED POEMS: Ian Pople considers a new selection of poems by Henri Coulette (1927-1988)
Poetry review – TABLE, WINDOW: Mat Riches finds much to admire in this chapbook by Simon Richey
BODY AND SOUL : Michael Paul Hogan reviews an impressive and surprising dystopian novel by Andrew Hook
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
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