Poetry review – HI-VIZ: James Roderick Burns finds real depth beneath Ben Banyard’s light-touch observations
James Roderick Burns
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, exhibitions, history, poetry reviews, year 2022 • Tags: books, exhibitions, history, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – THE HOUSE OF EVERYTHING: James Roderick Burns walks through the John Soane museum guided by Robert Seatter’s poetry
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – THIS KILT OF MANY COLOURS: James Roderick Burns investigates David Bleiman’s unusually dense pamphlet
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, politics, society, year 2021 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry, politics, society • 0 Comments
Poetry review – THE LAST DINOSAUR IN DONCASTER: James Roderick Burns finds gritty lyricism in a promising first collection by Sarah Wimbush
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, year 2021 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns • 0 Comments
NO SPIDER HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS BOOK: James Roderick Burns ventures into an anthology – edited by Cherry Potts – which is devoted to the eight-legged creatures which are a source of alarm to many people.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – STREET LIGHT AMBER: James Roderick Burns admires the way that Noel Duffy weaves atmospheric urban poetry around the story of a troubled relationship
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – SMOKING OPIUM IN MOSCOW: James Roderick Burns admires Roger Caldwell’s use of poetry to delineate and then demolish a number of illusions cherished by western culture
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – SLEEPER: James Roderick Burns finds that Jo Colley’s new collection is very appropriate for the current difficult times
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – Out of the Blue: James Roderick Burns is struck by the unusual coherence of this volume of selected poems by Wendy Klein
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments
James Roderick Burns finds a way through the more unusual aspects of a collection by Elisa Matvejeva
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments
James Roderick Burns is moved by a thoughtfully chosen selection of Joan Ure’s defiant poetry
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, fiction, year 2022 • Tags: books, fiction, James Roderick Burns • 0 Comments
NO ONE HAS ANY INTENTION OF BUILDING A WALL: James Roderick Burns finds considerable power in a slim volume of short stories by Ruth Brandt