Thomas Ovans admires the fluency and versatility on show in Brian Docherty’s most recent collection
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D A Prince is surprised and delighted by very substantial first collection from David Cameron
Jeremy Wikeley reviews Rishi Dastidar’s first collection and looks forward to his further poetic development
Peter Daniels finds Andrew Waterman’s chapbook sequence a little too restrained for its own good
Thomas Ovans browses an ambitious anthology of poems inspired by the artist Stanley Spencer and finds that every picture may tell several stories
Pam Thompson is intrigued by the dream-poems in a new collection by Charles Lauder
Following in Fitzgerald’s Footsteps: Brian Docherty reviews Ruth Valentine’s small but politically significant and beautifully illustrated new collection from Hercules Editions
Graham Hardie finds much to admire in Marilyn Ricci’s new collection Night Rider
Roger Caldwell is enthusiastic about the richness and variety of new collection by Penelope Shuttle
James Roderick Burns reflects on the multiple goals a poetry anthology editor has to aim for – and considers that Alison Hill has done pretty well with her selection of flying-related poems
D A Prince finds the poems of Robert Etty to be very good company as they explore Lincolnshire’s landscape and introduce its people
Alex Josephy finds authentic voices in Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s poems of theatrical nostalgia
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: Alex Josephy, books, poetry