Peter Daniels sees Floyd Skloot’s new collection as a meditation on life and death – and on poetry as a means of dealing with both of them.
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John Snelling finds an all too common “either/or” approach is replaced by a pleasingly inclusive “and/and” viewpoint throughout a kaleidoscopic collection by Marcus Smith
D A Prince finds Stuart Henson’s “Feast of Fools” hard to classify but easy to enjoy
Caroline Maldonado finds there are many possible ways of reading this chapbook of poems by Susan Wicks with artwork by Elizabeth Clayman
Thomas Ovans enjoys picking his way through some of the intricate twists and turns of Kate Atkinson’s prize-winning novel
Merryn Williams welcomes a new book by John Pikoulis which relates the poetry of Alun Lewis to the circumstances surrounding his tragic death in 1944
John Forth finds that humour is one of the keys to the success of Alberto Torrealba’s tale of a poetic duel (translated by Timothy Adès)
Paul McLoughlin reviews a collection set in the 1930s which recreates a lost age that was both golden and flawed.
Optimization & Optimism Michael Bartholomew-Biggs looks at links between mathematics & poetry
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, poetry • 0 Comments
Richie McCaffery gives particular attention to the new section of M.R. Peacocke’s recent New and Selected