Emma Lee admires Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s perceptive handling of memory and nostalgia.
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Fiona Sinclair explores a picture & poem collaboration by Gordon Meade & Douglas Robertson
Richie McCaffery gives particular attention to the new section of M.R. Peacocke’s recent New and Selected
Peter Daniels sees Floyd Skloot’s new collection as a meditation on life and death – and on poetry as a means of dealing with both of them.
John Snelling finds an all too common “either/or” approach is replaced by a pleasingly inclusive “and/and” viewpoint throughout a kaleidoscopic collection by Marcus Smith
D A Prince finds Stuart Henson’s “Feast of Fools” hard to classify but easy to enjoy
Caroline Maldonado finds there are many possible ways of reading this chapbook of poems by Susan Wicks with artwork by Elizabeth Clayman
Merryn Williams welcomes a new book by John Pikoulis which relates the poetry of Alun Lewis to the circumstances surrounding his tragic death in 1944
Poetry and Science are skilfully mixed in a new collection by Canadian poet Alice Major
Emma Lee finds a sense of place and atmosphere in Caroline Maldonado’s new chapbook
Fiona Sinclair finds it possible to enter wholeheartedly into the world of Ann Drysdale’s poetry
Thomas Ovans discovers that Danielle Hope’s latest collection contains a lot more than the likeable Mrs Uomo
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, poetry