books

Wendy French considers a sizeable collection by Chris Armstrong and finds it honest about love, loss and the joy of being alive

D A Prince reviews an excellent debut pamphlet by Joe Carrick-Varty

Julie Hogg engages with a deeply thought-provoking collection by Dorothy Lehane

Alex Josephy judges Warda Yassin’s chapbook to be the work of a promising and confident new poet

Nicholas Bielby works through some initial difficulties in getting to grips with Tim O’Leary’s poetry

Wendy Klein enjoys Keith Hutson’s artful recapturing of the atmosphere of Music Hall

Michael Bartholomew-Biggs finds that Danielle Hope’s translations provide a very accessible introduction to Giovanni Pascoli’s poetry

Michael Bartholomew-Biggs accompanies Nancy Charley on an unorthodox poetic excursion into the New Testament

James Roderick Burns finds a way through the more unusual aspects of a collection by Elisa Matvejeva

Jim Greenhalf considers Kevin Hanson’s new collection and wonders why he is not better known

Leah Fritz identifies with Lisa Kelly’s poems about hearing loss

Rosie Johnston congratulates Paul McLoughlin for taking on the challenge of rendering these ancient poems in contemporary English