Poetry Review – The Anatomical Venus. Pat Edwards responds to Helen Ivory’s new collection which confronts historical abuses of women
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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
Poetry Review – Sightings. Mat Riches finds that Rose Cook has compressed a lot of looking at the world into one pamphlet
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
Poetry Review – Safety Behaviour. Maxine Linnell enjoys following Emma Jeremy’s poetic imagination
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, Maxine Linnell, poetry