Kate Bingham praises Joan Michelson’s eye for the details of life in a retirement home.
poetry
STILL SHINING: Brian Docherty reflects on the wealth of experience which adds extra polish to Katherine Gallagher’s poetry
A POET’S CALENDAR: Brian Docherty reviews Peter Daniels’ latest collection
Emma Lee reviews a handsome anthology of poems inspired by the South Lookout on Aldeburgh Beach
D A Prince discusses John Freeman’s direct and emotionally honest poetry
Graham Hardie is won over by a freshness and simplicity he finds in Hamish Whyte’s poetry
Wendy French enthuses about a prize-winning first collection by Gillie Robic
Nick Cooke catches up with a dramatic but sometimes unsettling collection by Fran Lock
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs dips into a collection of ‘lost’ ekphrastic poems by R S Thomas
John Lucas reviews collections from Gregory Woods and George Tardios
Wendy French commends a serious and significant chapbook collection from Paul Stephenson
James Roderick Burns notes that Michael Crowley has taken some risks in order to negotiate a way through conflicting themes and historical viewpoints in his new collection
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, history, James Roderick Burns, poetry