Poetry review – CHEAP MOTELS OF MY YOUTH: Charles Rammelkamp warmly welcomes a new collection by George Bilgere Cheap Motels of My Youth George Bilgere Rattle, 2024 ISBN: 978-1-931307-56-7 40 pages $9.00 George Bilgere’s poems are always poignant and funny, clever and intelligent. He writes movingly about age and time, just as […]
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Poetry review – OVER THE EDGE: James Roderick Burns willingly follows Norbert Hirschhorn on a bold exploration of the sadder and darker aspects of life and relationships
Poetry review – HOLLYWOOD OR HOME: Charles Rammelkamp enjoys Kathryn Gray’s excursions into the illusory world of film where the past seems to be preserved even as time moves on for the rest of us.
Poetry Review – EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON: Pat Edwards discerns that Taz Rahman’s poems about city life are strongly motivated by a love of the natural world
Poetry review – THE WIND AND THE RAIN: Alex Josephy finds grief and hope artfully balanced in Anthony Wilson’s well-crafted poems
Poetry review – BLUES, PRAYERS, & PAGAN CHANTS: Charles Rammelkamp is especially appreciative of the gratitude present in these poems by Diane Sahms
MIND AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE: John Lucas finds helpful information and some degree of comfort in James Hodgson’s primer for those trying to get to grips with AI and the issues surrounding it
Poetry review – THE REMAINING MEN: Pat Edwards admires Martin Figura’s poetry for having a clear purpose and achieving it
CONTRAFLOW: Paul McDonald finds some surprises in a new and unusual anthology of English poetry from the last hundred years
Poetry review – SAVED TO CLOUD: Adele Ward finds the climate emergency and Covid restrictions can sit side-by-side with poems depicting a long life lived to the full in this collection by Kate Foley
Poetry review – THE FAMILIAR: Alan Catlin gets to grips with a most original and unusual collection by Sarah Kain Gutowski
Poetry review – TOOK MY WAY DOWN, LIKE A MESSENGER, TO THE DEEP: Edmund Prestwich admires the intricacy of Linda France’s sonnet sequence linking the paintings of Leonora Carrington with the experience of lockdown
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