Poetry review – COOKING WITH MARILYN: Emma Lee enjoys Angela Readman’s poetic portrait of a film star
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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, travel, year 2020 • Tags: books, Brian Docherty, poetry, travel • 1 Comment
Poetry review – A CITY WAKING UP: Brian Docherty detects the voice of a woke woman in Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s new collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – HOW THE HELL ARE YOU: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs appreciates the highly individual worldview revealed in Glyn Maxwell’s new collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Neil Fulwood, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – DRESSING FOR THE AFTERLIFE: Neil Fulwood finds that Maria Taylor’s energetic collection covers a lot of ground
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: authors, books, Charles Rammelkamp, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – THE BLUE HOTEL: Charles Rammelkamp considers some episodes in the lives of famous people as imagined in poems by Alan Catlin
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, literature, poetry, year 2020 • Tags: authors, books, Edmund Prestwich, literature, poetry • 1 Comment
THE FIRE OF JOY: Edmund Prestwich looks at a very personal poetry compilation by Clive James
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Pat Edwards, poetry • 1 Comment
Poetry review – INHERENT: Pat Edwards finds an intriguing blend of moods in these poems by Lucia Orellana Damacela
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Emma Storr, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – HERD QUEEN: Emma Storr praises the range of voices and moods in Di Slaney’s collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Edmund Prestwich, poetry • 1 Comment
Poetry Review – GRIMOIRE: Edmund Prestwich admires Robin Roberson’s invocation of dark powers in his new collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: Angela Topping, books, poetry • 0 Comments
Angela Topping browses a new selection of Gothic Verse edited by Nisha Bhakoo
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, poetry, Stuart Henson • 0 Comments
Poetry review – A COMMONPLACE: Stuart Henson reviews an intriguingly different mix of collection & anthology by Jonathan Davidson
by Barbara Lewis • art, music, painting, plays, poetry, theatre, year 2020 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, music, painting, plays, poetry, theatre •
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