Poetry review – COLLECTED POEMS: Edmund Prestwich is grateful for this full and eminently readable record of Fleur Adcock’s poetic creativity
Edmund Prestwich
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Poetry review – TOOK MY WAY DOWN, LIKE A MESSENGER, TO THE DEEP: Edmund Prestwich admires the intricacy of Linda France’s sonnet sequence linking the paintings of Leonora Carrington with the experience of lockdown
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Poetry review – A BROKEN MAN IN FLOWER: Edmund Prestwich commends the power and effectiveness of David Harsent’s versions of poems by Yannis Ritsos
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Poetry review – IMPASSE FOR JULES MAIGRET: Edmund Prestwich enjoys Sean O’Brien’s atmospheric evocation of mid-twentieth century Paris
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Poetry review – LET HIM BRING A SHRUBBE: Edmund Prestwich takes a close and appreciative look at Katharine Towers’ collection which draws on the life & music of composer Gerald Finzi
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Poetry review – FIVE FIFTY-FIVE: Edmund Prestwich finds many reasons to admire Maura Dooley’s collection
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Poetry review – BACK TO LIFE: Edmund Prestwich reviews a rich and wide-ranging collection by Michael Vince
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Poetry review – TRAVELLERS OF THE NORTH and HARALD IN BYZANTIUM: Edmund Prestwich considers two collections, by Fiona Smith and Kevin Crossley-Holland, that give voice to characters from history
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Poetry review – NOTES ON THE WASTE LAND: Edmund Prestwich considers the relationship between Tim Dooley’s new sequence and the Eliot poem which inspired it
Poetry review – MUSIC, AWAKE HER: Edmund Prestwich admires both musicality and mutually illuminating images in a new collection by Martha Kapos
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