Poetry review – Footnotes to Water: Alex Josephy enjoys the river theme running through Zoë Skoulding’s latest collection
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Poetry Review – How Death Came into the World: Isabelle Kenyon explores the mysterious world created in Nancy Charley’s latest collection
Poetry review – The Significance of a Dress: Pat Edwards is impressed by Emma Lee’s use of clothing as a metaphor for deeper human issues
Poetry review – Contained: Julie Hogg immerses herself in David Turner’s poetry collection with multimedia accompaniment
Poetry review – My Tin Watermelon: Brian Docherty takes a thoughtful stroll through a new collection by Peter Daniels – and in the process learns the meaning of “Touching Mr Williams”
Poetry review – The Unreturning: P W Bridgman salutes Martin Malone’s poetic counter-attack on certain received ideas about the Great War
Poetry review – Deluge: Rosie Johnston finds that generosity of heart combines with expert technique in the poems of Charlotte Ansell
Poetry review – Poems for the Planet: Maria McCarthy looks at a powerful multi-author pamphlet designed to raise awareness of ecological issues
Poetry review – Out of the Blue: James Roderick Burns is struck by the unusual coherence of this volume of selected poems by Wendy Klein
Poetry review – Deadpan: Emma Storr examines the art of masterful understatement as displayed in a new collection by James Norcliffe
Poetry Review – Each Other: Mat Riches thinks Clare Best’s poems have some very convincing things to say about relationships
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 1 • Tags: books, Mat Riches, poetry