Merryn Williams casts an eye over a new collection by Michael W Thomas
Merryn Williams
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”
Merryn Williams is doubly impressed – both by Andy Croft’s finely crafted poetry and by its subject, the unfairly neglected writer and activist, Randall Swingler
Merryn Williams considers books by two poets with vivid imaginations which they use in different ways: Andrew Wynn Owen veers towards mythology while Rennie Parker finds anarchy closer to everyday life.
Merryn Williams praises a new – but, sadly, posthumous – collection from Elizabeth Burns
Merryn Williams reviews Matthew Barton’s new translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, poetry reviews, year 2020 0 • Tags: authors, books, Merryn Williams, poetry