Poetry review – DEAR RWANDA: Alwyn Marriage admires how well Isabella Mead’s poems have captured her experience of living in another country
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FESTIVAL IN A BOOK: Louise Warren reviews a compilation of writing in celebration of the Wenlock Poetry Festival
Poetry review – ON BALANCE: Sultana Raza is intrigued by the underlying threads and themes in this short collection by John Harvey
Poetry review – STREET SAILING: Mat Riches notes both the craft and the construction of a collection by Matt Gilbert
Poetry review – ON EARTH, AS IT IS: Stephen Claughton finds Jane Lovell’s poems to be set firmly in the natural world and very much in sympathy with nature
John Lucas reviews new poetry collections by Alessio Zanelli and Alamgir Hashmi
Poetry review – PERISHABLE: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a collection of lyrical narratives by Stelios Mormoris
Poetry review – SIXTY POEMS: Rennie Halstead commends the diversity and range of Paul McDonald’s poetry
Poetry review – MINDFUL: Neil Elder is shaken by John Weston’s pamphlet which is as much a social and political document as it is a sequence of poems
Poetry review – HIVE: Charles Rammelkamp is captivated by Suzanne Mercury’s poem which draws on numerology and apiculture
Poetry review – WHAT IS LEFT: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a harrowing chapbook by Bunkong Tuon
The Prince and the Plunder. Review by Barbara Lewis. The story of Ethiopian Prince Alamayu, or Alemayehu, depending on your choice of spelling, is haunting because it could have been so different. Above all, he should never have died when and where he did.
By Barbara Lewis • books, history, year 2024 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, history