London Grip Poetry Review – Joan Ure
James Roderick Burns is moved by a thoughtfully chosen selection of Joan Ure’s defiant poetry More →
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London Grip Poetry Review – Gale Burns
James Roderick Burns considers a new collection by Gale Burns and wonders if it is possible for poets to set themselves too high a standard More →
London Grip Poetry Review – Judi Sutherland
James Roderick Burns enjoys Judi Sutherland’s disciplined and penetrating poems More →
London Grip Poetry Review – Phil Kirby
James Roderick Burns appreciates the way Phil Kirby handles darker aspects of life with honesty but without excluding hope More →
London Grip Poetry Review – Topping
James Roderick Burns finds that Angela Topping’s poetry exercises a powerful force upon the reader More →
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin – a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky
James Roderick Burns has no doubts about the importance of Mayakovsky’s epic poem about Lenin in a new Smokestack edition by Rosy Carrick More →
London Grip Poetry Review – Hershman
James Roderick Burns sees Tania Hershman’s debut collection as an exploration of uncertainty. More →
Fifty Ways to Fly
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 More →
London Grip Poetry Review – Utting
James Roderick Burns raises some questions of balance in relation to Susan Utting’s recent ‘New & Selected’ More →
London Grip Poetry Review – Paine
James Roderick Burns finds Geraldine Paine’s new narrative collection to be a timely reminder of traditional poetic virtues More →
London Grip Poetry Review – Crowley
James Roderick Burns notes that Michael Crowley has taken some risks in order to negotiate a way through conflicting themes and historical viewpoints in his new collection More →
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London Grip Poetry Review – Elisa Matvejeva
September 9, 2019 by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, 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 More →