books

Rodney Wood’s new chapbook collection explores the potential of an unusual verse form

Grant Tarbard has produced a fascinating collection, observes Carla Scarano

Michael Tolkien finds he is kept on his toes by the shifting styles of Pam Thompson’s latest collection

D A Prince applauds Keith Hutson’s poetic tributes to music hall performers

Rosie Johnston enters into the spirit of an intoxicating anthology of pub poems mixed by Helen Mort and Stuart Maconie

John Lucas reviews a genuinely interesting collection of essays by Jim Burns – and adds some equally interesting observations of his own

Pam Thompson finds her attention consistently held by Robin Houghton’s poetry

Camera Eye / I, Camera: Brian Docherty considers Jacqueline Saphra’s poem sequence based on remarkable photographs of and by Lee Miller

Carla Scarano wonders how Christine McNeill’s poetry manages to combine tactile sensations and transcendence

Alex Josephy reviews an enjoyable debut collection from Natalie Burdett

Ruth Valentine recognizes the delicacy with which Isabel Bermudez introduces poetic strangeness into familiar subjects.

Kerrin P Sharpe’s poems consistently offers a new take on the world, observes Roger Caldwell; but at times they can also be agreeably baffling.