poetry

Peter Ulric Kennedy sizes up the strengths of Antony Johae’s poetry of Middle Eastern experience

Graham Hardie takes a close look at the elements making up a new collection by Christopher Southgate

Emma Lee finds that Myra Schneider is on good form in her new mythic-flavoured collection

Wendy French is enthusiastic about an ancient Greek sailor’s navigation log being given a poetic update by Leslie Saunders

London Grip comments on recent collections by Rosemary Norman, Julia Webb & Abegail Morley

Wendy French is pleased to find that a themed anthology from Emma Press successfully does what it sets out to do

Graham Hardie finds David Attwooll’s landscape poems pleasingly evocative

Writing the ‘Big C’: Brian Docherty reviews a new collection from Wendy French

D A Prince finds that metaphor & reality combine in a nautically-flavoured collection from Lynne Hjelmgaard

Richie McCaffery admires the range and scope of an anthology celebrating half a century of Modern Poetry in Translation.

Graham Hardie considers a collection by Graham Buchan in which some rather sombre themes are balanced by welcome lighter touches.

Wendy Klein enjoys a side-by-side look at two compelling but entirely different books by Stuart Pickford and Nigel Pantling