Poetry review – IT’S NOT PERSONAL: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews a pleasingly wide-ranging collection by Nigel Pantling
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Poetry review – AS IF TO SING: James Roderick Burns admires the music and musicality running through this collection by Paul Henry
Poetry review – THE BIGGER PICTURE: Neil Fulwood finds much to enjoy in D A Prince’s new collection
Poetry review – MOON JELLYFISH CAN BARELY SWIM: Pat Edwards welcomes a thoughtful and wide-ranging collection by Ness Owen
Poetry review – TEN LINES: Rennie Halstead reviews a prize-winning collection of short poems by Sarah James
Poetry review – IN THE COUNTRY OF THE PEREGRINE: Charles Rammelkamp considers Wade Stevenson’s eloquently questioning poetry on love
Poetry review – THE KINGDOM: DA Prince explores the timeless locations created in Jane Draycott’s latest collection
The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka. Review by Alan Price. When you think of the name Franz Kafka those famous and familiar titles, The Trial, The Castle, America, In the Penal Colony and Metamorphosis are the first to be hung round the nervous neck of Franz.
Poetry review – WHEN THE WORLD WAS LEFT IN PIECES: Kate Noakes admires Jennifer Copley’s compact but telling portrayal of war’s consequences
Poetry review – TALKING ME OFF THE ROOF : Charles Rammelkamp is moved by the tenderness of Laurie Kuntz’s poems of love for family and neighbours
WHAT THE TRUMPET TAUGHT ME: Pamela Johnson enjoys a collection of prose reminiscences by the poet Kim Moore
Poetry review – EUROPE, LOVE ME BACK: Pat Edwards admires Rakhshan Rizwan’s ways of tackling the difficult theme of racial intolerance
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, society, year 2023 • Tags: books, Pat Edwards, poetry, society