Wendy French finds that Ruth Valentine’s chapbook fully meets the challenge of responding to the Grenfell Tower tragedy.
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D A Prince reviews a poetry anthology which commemorates the 800th anniversary of the Charter of the Forest – a companion to Magna Carta that should probably be better known
* This issue of London Grip features new poems by: * Naomi Foyle *Gary Beck *David Cooke *Phil Wood *Chris Beckett *Peter Kenny * Teoti Jardine *Pamela Job *Peter Branson *Pam Thompson *William Bedford * David Lohrey *Oliver Comins *Emma Lee * Stuart Pickford * Robert Nisbet *Richie McCaffery * Kerrin P Sharpe * Sarah […]
Peter Ualrig Kennedy finds there is so much to reward the reader in Naomi Jaffa’s riveting second collection of conversational and hard-hitting poems.
Ian McEwen’s unorthodox verse forms also employ some traditional poetic skills
Peter Ualrig Kennedy is excited by Elizabeth Cook’s impressive collection of referential poems, each one new, fresh and alluring.
Thomas Ovans admires a poetic memoir by Naomi Foyle which celebrates the life of the Belfast writer and activist Mairtin Crawford
Mining the Motherlode: Brian Docherty finds Jacqueline Saphra to be an entertaining narrator whether or not she is an unreliable one.
The undoubted cleverness in Chrissy Williams’ collection is never merely play but also has purpose, observes D A Prince
Sarah Lawson finds seriousness and humour, the personal and the fanciful in this recent and retrospective selection of Shanta Acharya’s poetry
Alex Josephy finds authentic voices in Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s poems of theatrical nostalgia
The poems of Pauline Yarwood seem to know where they are going and Alex Josephy sets out to follow them
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 1 • Tags: Alex Josephy, books, poetry