Poetry review: Merryn Williams looks at two new Shoestring collections from Clare Brant & Alexis Lykiard
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Poetry review – GOLD TO GOLD: Merryn Williams gives a short but sincere appreciation of John Mole’s newest collection
Merryn Williams reviews Matthew Barton’s new translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies
Merryn Williams casts an eye over a new collection by Michael W Thomas
Merryn Williams admires the continuing power of Ruth Bidgood’s poetry
Merryn Williams discovers that Anne Stewart’s poems about bereavement succeed on several levels
Merryn Williams reviews an anthology of poems about the NHS which express both gratitude and anxiety
Merryn Williams discovers some fine new poems in Stuart Henson’s latest collection
Merryn Williams gives a concise appreciation of a prizewinning chapbook by Christopher North which contains several prizewinning poems.
Merryn Williams loves anthologies and finds this collection of travel poems to be a good and inspiring example
Merryn Williams shares a few thoughts about Alan Dunnett’s rather challenging poetry collection which seeks, among other things, to capture “the psychological fallout of anxiety in modern capitalist culture”
POEMS IN LOCKDOWN: Merryn Williams looks at two anthologies of poetry written during a pandemic year
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, Merryn Williams, poetry