Carla Scarano considers a dystopia convincingly described in a prose-poem sequence by Carole Coates
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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
One of the main aims of visiting Canada was to develop my research on Margaret Atwood. The New Central library in Calgary, which opened in 2018, provided me with all the facilities I needed.
Angela Topping looks at a successful collaboration between Rebecca Goss & Chris Routledge
Emma Storr is drawn into Gareth Writer-Davies’s poetic reflections on mortality
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 2 • Tags: books, Emma Storr, poetry