Poetry review – UNSUNG: Pat Edwards admires Emma Purshouse’s skill in making poems from the stuff of everyday life
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A HIGH CALLING: Paul McDonald enjoys an intriguing mix of poems, literary history, critical analysis and autobiography which John Greening uses to explore the motivations of a poet
Poetry review – MARGINAL FUTURE: James Roderick Burns examines S J Litherland’s rich and vivid state-of-the-nation collection and finds it grimly truthful but not without hope
Poetry review – A DRESS WITH DEEP POCKETS: Pat Edwards enjoys a slim but companionable collection by Jen Feroze
Poetry Review – HOTEL AMOUR: Sarah Leavesley finds this collection by Deryn Rees-Jones offers questions and images that are endlessly fascinating
Poetry review – GLANDSCAPES: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a grimly frank medical memoir-in-poems by Mickie Kennedy
Tilda Swinton – Ongoing. Review by Barbara Lewis. In 1994, Tilda Swinton at the age of 33 went to 43 funerals, including that of Derek Jarman, the artist who had shaped her way of working that she terms “co-authorship”.
Poetry review – HAUNT ME: Charles Rammelkamp considers José Enrique Medina’s unusual ways of dealing with grief and loss
Poetry review – BLUE IN GREEN: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs enjoys the warm and gently upbeat tone of John Harvey’s latest chapbook
Poetry review – EJECT CITY: Charles Rammelkamp considers a fairly dark collection by Jason Morphew
. Poetry review – WATER: Tim Murphy reviews Haleh Liza Gafori’s new translation of Rumi’s poetry
Poetry review – FOR THE DURATION: Jim Greenhalf finds much to admire in a new collection by Nicholas Bielby
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2025 • Tags: books, Jim Greenhalf, poetry