London Grip Poetry Review – Fawzi Karim
David Cooke commends the ability of Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim both to reflect and to transcend his own circumstances
David Cooke
London Grip Poetry Review – Zaffar Kunial
David Cooke is engaged by Zaffar Kunial’s poetic exploration of his own identity
London Grip Poetry Review – Margarit
David Cooke finds Joan Margarit to be a poet of authentic experience who does not rely on tricks or strain after effect.
London Grip Poetry Review – Learner
David Cooke examines Gill Learner’s new collection and finds a poet with a distinctive voice and many worthwhile things to say.
London Grip Poetry Review – Maitreyabandhu
A substantial collection from Maitreyabandhu repays careful scrutiny, observes David Cooke
100 Dutch-Language Poems
David Cooke applauds the efforts of Paul Vincent & John Irons in selecting and translating an anthology which spans 1000 years of Dutch poetry
London Grip Poetry Review – Jenny Lewis
David Cooke considers Jenny Lewis’s important new version of the Gilgamesh epic