Poetry review – Cargo of Limbs: Nick Cooke considers a powerful chapbook by Martyn Crucefix which focusses on the plight of refugees
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Poetry review – Blood Rain: Stephen Claughton is impressed by the variety of themes in André Mangeot’s new collection
Poetry review – Sharp Hills: Alex Josephy observes that a light poetic touch enables Chrissie Gittins to give proper attention to small details
Poetry Review – The Trio Confessions: Louise Warren admires Alan Price’s quite personal approach to translating poems by nine diverse poets
Poetry Review – Fothermather: Mat Riches gets a lot more out of Gail McConnell’s poetry than he might have expected at first
Poetry Review – Firing Pins: Mat Riches is intrigued by Jo Young’s poems looking at military life from an unusual angle
Audio books are on the rise and social media are creating their own grammar for the youthful audiences I sense are the prime target for R J Askew’s In The Room with Three Doors, released on Amazon Audible in March.
WHEN WE LIVED IN HEAVEN: William Bedford considers Two Girls and a Beehive – a new collection of poetry by Rosie Jackson & Graham Burchell
Malcolm Carson reviews Remembered Acts, the most recent novel by John Lucas
Thomas Ovans reviews two recent poetry pamphlets by Stephen Claughton – The War with Hannibal and The 3-D Clock
Poetry Review – The Machineries of Joy: John Forth seeks to do justice to the sheer range of Peter Finch’s poetry
Poetry review – Contains Mild Peril: Daniel Bennett admires Fran Lock’s poetry for its blend of the imaginative and the concrete
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Daniel Bennett, poetry