Poetry review – FRANK’S LUNCH SERVICE: Charles Rammelkamp appreciates the sheer physicality of the materials that make up this collection by Frank Rubino Frank’s Lunch Service Frank Rubino Lithic Press, 2025 ISBN: 978-1946-583-413 $20.00, 112 pages
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Poetry review – AUGUST 24, 1957 : Charles Rammelkamp follows Robert Cooperman through recollections and reflections stirred by a traumatic childhood incident
Poetry review – A CERTAIN PENANCE OF LIGHT: Julian Stannard discusses Debasish Lahiri’s unusual approach to ekphrastic poetry
Sense & Sensibility, The Musical. Review by Barbara Lewis. Jane Austen loved music, but words were her supreme medium for conveying the nuanced feelings of her finest characters and the vicious superficiality of the mercenary social climbers that served to highlight the quieter virtues.
Poetry review – IN THE LILY ROOM: Nick Cooke admires Erica Hesketh’s collection about motherhood not only for being accomplished and moving but also for its broad appeal across gender boundaries In The Lily Room Erica Hesketh Nine Arches Press ISBN 978-1-916760-16-5 pp 90 £11.99 A meticulous account of childbirth and what […]
Poetry review – CHOSEN GROUND: Colin Pink admires the witty and wise explorations of life’s puzzles in this new collection by Christopher M James
Poetry review – A NEWER WILDERNESS: Andrew Keanie finds that Nicola Healey’s slim chapbook has much to say about human wellness and well-being
Paradise Lost. Review by Alan Price. Talking to some of my poetry reading friends on how they feel about Milton they all said he is greatly admired but unloved: especially when tackling his epic (700 lines) poem, Paradise Lost.
Death Comes to Pemberley. Review by Barbara Lewis. “Jane Austen wrote six novels, pretty much all about the same sort of thing,” declares the programme note to P.D. James’ artful sequel to possibly the most popular of the six (or seven, if you count the unfinished “Sanditon”).
Poetry review – THE SCREW CITY POEMS: Charles Rammelkamp enjoys dipping into a comprehensive New & Selected from Richard Vargas
WILD BOAR: Alex Josephy is intrigued by an enigmatic and poetic first novel by Hannah Lutz which is deeply concerned about the climate crisis
. Poetry review – WATER: Tim Murphy reviews Haleh Liza Gafori’s new translation of Rumi’s poetry
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