London Grip Poetry Review – Hugo Williams
Hugo Williams skilfully uses poetry to convey the experience of recovery from prolonged illness
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London Grip Poetry Review – Jennifer Johnson
Jennifer Johnson gives an object lesson in making poetry out of difficult and painful situations
The Hotel of Dreams
Thomas Ovans browses a short-story collection by John Lucas
London Grip Poetry Review – Patrick Osada
Carla Scarano admires the way that Patrick Osada’s poems play with light and shadow
Excursion to Limehouse Town Hall, by Jane McChrystal.
A new municipal HQ for the Borough of Tower Hamlets is being built on the site of the old Royal London Hospital, and it’s due to open in 2022.
London Grip Poetry Review – Patricia McCarthy
Nick Cooke examines an ambitious biographical poem-sequence by Patricia McCarthy
My Pen – My Selfie Stick
Neil Curry fears that wit and breadth of imagination are becoming undervalued by contemporary poets
London Grip Poetry Review – Richie McCaffery
Stuart Henson enjoys Richie McCaffery’s conversational and sharp-witted poetry – and his knack of crafting a good punch-line.
London Grip Poetry Review – Mark Mansfield
Angela Topping admires Mark Mansfield’s carefully controlled and crafted poems for their plain speaking
In Transit : Poems of Travel
Merryn Williams loves anthologies and finds this collection of travel poems to be a good and inspiring example
London Grip Poetry Review – Jessica Mookherjee
Jessica Mookherjee’s collection Flood contains poems so fiercely inventive that “Riptide” might even be a fitting title observes Brian Docherty
London Grip Poetry Review – Nigel Pantling
Thomas Ovans enjoys Nigel Pantling’s chapbook which makes army life an unexpected source of poetry