James Roderick Burns sees Tania Hershman’s debut collection as an exploration of uncertainty.
James Roderick Burns
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
James Roderick Burns raises some questions of balance in relation to Susan Utting’s recent ‘New & Selected’
James Roderick Burns finds Geraldine Paine’s new narrative collection to be a timely reminder of traditional poetic virtues
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
James Roderick Burns looks for vital signs in an anthology of medical poems
James Roderick Burns has no doubts about the importance of Mayakovsky’s epic poem about Lenin in a new Smokestack edition by Rosy Carrick
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, politics, year 2017 0 • Tags: books, history, James Roderick Burns, poetry, politics