Poetry Review – THE EMMA PRESS ANTHOLOGY OF ILLNESS: Angela Topping gives a sense of the variety in this collection of poems dealing frankly with the experience of being sick or injured.
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If you can embrace it, lockdown’s shift from the real to the virtual is a liberation that makes anything possible.
Poetry review – COOKING WITH MARILYN: Emma Lee enjoys Angela Readman’s poetic portrait of a film star
Poetry review – A CITY WAKING UP: Brian Docherty detects the voice of a woke woman in Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s new collection
Poetry review – HOW THE HELL ARE YOU: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs appreciates the highly individual worldview revealed in Glyn Maxwell’s new collection
Poetry review – DRESSING FOR THE AFTERLIFE: Neil Fulwood finds that Maria Taylor’s energetic collection covers a lot of ground
Poetry review – THE BLUE HOTEL: Charles Rammelkamp considers some episodes in the lives of famous people as imagined in poems by Alan Catlin
THE FIRE OF JOY: Edmund Prestwich looks at a very personal poetry compilation by Clive James
Poetry review – INHERENT: Pat Edwards finds an intriguing blend of moods in these poems by Lucia Orellana Damacela
Poetry review – HERD QUEEN: Emma Storr praises the range of voices and moods in Di Slaney’s collection
Poetry Review – GRIMOIRE: Edmund Prestwich admires Robin Roberson’s invocation of dark powers in his new collection
Poetry review: Merryn Williams looks at two new Shoestring collections from Clare Brant & Alexis Lykiard
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Merryn Williams, poetry