Poetry review – BLOOD IS BLACK IN THE SHADOWS: Charles Rammelkamp finds unexpected pleasures amid the bleakness of Dennis Gulling’s poetic vignettes
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Poetry review – FIRST, I TURN OFF THE LIGHT: James Roderick Burns ventures into the haunting and disturbing world conjured by Katy Mack’s poetry
Poetry review – EPHEMERAL: James Roderick Burns commends Jane McLaughlin’s chapbook for both its poetry and its purpose
Poetry review – THE INFINITE TOWN: John Forth considers the poetics of Mark Robinson’s new collection (but sidesteps the philosophy)
Poetry review – BATTERY ROCKS: Louise Warren finds Katrina Naomi’s new collection to be an eloquent testimony to the joys of swimming.
Poetry review – THE BRIDGE: Pat Edwards admires a collection by Jane Salmons in which the poems seek to make connections with readers’ own experiences
THE BRAILLE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a collection of essays by Naomi Cohn which reflect on her experience of losing eyesight
Poetry review – THE ADJUSTMENTS: Pat Edwards finds craft and imagination in Claire Dyer’s new collection
Poetry review – OPUS 1: Nicholas Bielby reflects on a substantial and highly original (but not entirely successful) collection by W D Jackson
THE BOOKSTORE BOOK: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a memoir in poetry and prose by Ron Kolm
Poetry review – LEAVING THE HILLS: Stuart Henson reviews Tony Curtis’s latest collection and reflects on many years of thoughtful, well-observed poetry
Medieval Women. Review by Barbara Lewis. Between 1100 and 1600, Europe had 20 reigning queens. It produced numerous women who turned to religion to escape female servitude and gain influence and others who offered practical common sense to relieve the often fatal trauma of childbirth.
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