poetry

Pamela Johnson sees Jane Commane as a bold poet for troubled times

Emma Lee considers Kate Foley’s poetic exploration of boundaries and how to cross them

Stuart Henson decides that Jonathan Davidson’s “On Poetry” is a book for both writers and listeners. And academics might enjoy it too.

Rodney Wood’s new chapbook collection explores the potential of an unusual verse form

Grant Tarbard has produced a fascinating collection, observes Carla Scarano

Michael Tolkien finds he is kept on his toes by the shifting styles of Pam Thompson’s latest collection

Andreea Scridon reports on a music & poetry event held at the Romanian Cultural Institute

D A Prince applauds Keith Hutson’s poetic tributes to music hall performers

Rosie Johnston enters into the spirit of an intoxicating anthology of pub poems mixed by Helen Mort and Stuart Maconie

John Lucas reviews a genuinely interesting collection of essays by Jim Burns – and adds some equally interesting observations of his own

Pam Thompson finds her attention consistently held by Robin Houghton’s poetry

Camera Eye / I, Camera: Brian Docherty considers Jacqueline Saphra’s poem sequence based on remarkable photographs of and by Lee Miller