Poetry Review – Sightings. Mat Riches finds that Rose Cook has compressed a lot of looking at the world into one pamphlet
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Emma Storr is drawn into Gareth Writer-Davies’s poetic reflections on mortality
Carla Scarano considers a dystopia convincingly described in a prose-poem sequence by Carole Coates
Thomas Ovans is moved by Steve Rudd’s very personal poems about the NHS
D A Prince commends Tom Sastry as a poet who looks at the world in fresh ways while still leaving space for his readers
Emma Lee follows poems by Victoria Gatehouse as they take a sometimes clinical view of the journey from young woman to parent
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs tackles a difficult read which attempts to bring home some human realities of street violence in London
Stuart Henson commends a pamphlet in which poems by Katharine Towers have the space to breathe and to resonate with one another
Merryn Williams casts an eye over a new collection by Michael W Thomas
Merryn Williams admires the continuing power of Ruth Bidgood’s poetry
Maria C. McCarthy is both entertained and puzzled by the poems in a debut collection by Dawn Watson
Poetry Review – Aunts Come Armed with Welsh Cakes. Kate Noakes rather enjoys the contents – as well as the intriguing title – of Thirza Clout’s pamphlet collection
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, Kate Noakes, poetry