Paul McDonald

SCANNELL

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Poetry review – FAREWELL PERFORMANCE: Paul McDonald looks back with pleasure on the collected later poems of Vernon Scannell

SINCLAIR

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Poetry Review- GREEDY COW: Paul McDonald reviews Fiona Sinclair’s funny and lucid accounts of episodes in a late-in-life romance

LUCAS

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Book Review – The Life in Us: Paul McDonald reviews an absorbing and touching novel by John Lucas

COATES

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Poetry review- WHEN THE SWIMMING POOL FELL INTO THE SEA: Paul McDonald champions ‘slim volumes’ and admires the way that poems enhance one another in Carole Coates’s new collection.

MORRISON

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Poetry review – ANXIOUS CORPORALS: Paul McDonald praises the delightful anti-capitalist riffing in Alan Morrison’s ‘essay in verse’

HOPE

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Poetry review: Paul McDonald reviews a new selection from the American poet and critic, Warren Hope