Poetry review – NEGOTIATING CAPONATA – Rennie Halstead looks at poems by Carla Scarano D’Antonio which reflect the intensity of family relationships across generations
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Poetry review – KATABASIS: Emma Lee assesses a complex myth-poem sequence by Jay G Ying
Poetry review – BREAD WITHOUT BUTTER: Louise Warren absorbs the atmosphere of Wendy French’s memoir of life in rural Wales
Poetry Review – FATHER LEAR: Peter Ualrig Kennedy is transfixed by Penelope Shuttle’s mastery of her art in her most recent collection
Poetry review – SUNDAY’S CHILD: Carla Scarano examines Rebecca Bilkau’s poetic narrative of a wounded childhood
Poetry review – GRIT: Pat Edwards is impressed by Emily Oldfield’s ability to take her readers with her into a rugged landscape
Anuther Glesca: a poetry review by Brian Docherty who takes a thorough look at the twists and turns of Owen Gallagher’s idiosyncratic collection Clydebuilt.
Poetry review – CAMILLE COMES UNGLUED : Charles Rammelkamp reviews a character-based chapbook by Jennifer Lagier
Poetry review – SELF-PORTRAIT AS ORNITHOLOGIST: Thomas Ovans appreciates Karen Lloyd’s gift for describing and understanding the natural world
Poetry review – LET BATTLE COMMENCE: Norbert Hirschhorn reflects on Wendy Klein’s use of letters by one of her ancestors to make a poetic memoir of the American Civil War.
Poetry review – HOTEL: Julie Hogg finds promise in a first collection by Ali Lewis
Fetishism Psychoanalysis Anthropology & Crazy Love. Review by Barbara Lewis. Psychotherapist Patricia Morris undertakes a brave, elegantly-argued and learned analysis, enriched by her years of professional experience, to pin down the meaning of one very particular word – fetishism – and explore its distortion by anthropologists.
By Barbara Lewis • books, psychology, psychotherapy, writing, year 2020 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, psychology, psychotherapy, writing