POOR: Nicki Heinen revisits Caleb Femi’s prize-winning collection from a few years ago
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Poetry review – WING FORMULA: Sue Wallace-Shaddad enjoys a promising debut pamphlet by Emilie Jelinek
THE SERVANTS AND OTHER STRANGE STORIES: Maria C McCarthy admires this intriguing and varied collection by John O’Donoghue
Powell and Pressburger’s War. Review by Alan Price. From 1939-1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger produced eight remarkable propaganda feature films but neither felt their artistic integrity was compromised from being backed by The Ministry of Information.
Poetry review – WITH SIGNS FOLLOWING: Rennie Halstead finds a tension between poetic craft and accessibility in this collection by David Ricks
Poetry review – MAKING DOLMADES IN ESSEX: Diana Cant visits a childhood and adolescence lived in the 1950’s and 60’s, brought to evocative life in Judith Wozniak’s debut collection.
No Part-Time Dreamer: A review of Anju Makhija’s New & Selected Poems by Debasish Lahiri
Poetry review – EARWIG COUNTRY: DA Prince is drawn into Angela Topping’s poems about memories and connections
Poetry review – THE NEW HERBAL: Nick Cooke finds a way through the complex poems in Fran Lock’s latest pamphlet
Poetry review –NAMING A HURRICANE: Charles Rammelkamp is astonished by the forceful and personal poetry in Madeline Artenberg’s new collection
Poetry review – SHAKING THE APPLE TREE: Kimberly K Williams considers an important collection of witness poems by Jane Simpson
TRUTH OR FICTION?: Andrew Keanie discusses Doreen Maitre’s view that a work of fiction can expound philosophical ideas just as effectively as an academic text
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