The undoubted cleverness in Chrissy Williams’ collection is never merely play but also has purpose, observes D A Prince
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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
Thomas Ovans admires the fluency and versatility on show in Brian Docherty’s most recent collection
D A Prince is surprised and delighted by very substantial first collection from David Cameron
Jeremy Wikeley reviews Rishi Dastidar’s first collection and looks forward to his further poetic development
Peter Daniels finds Andrew Waterman’s chapbook sequence a little too restrained for its own good
Thomas Ovans browses an ambitious anthology of poems inspired by the artist Stanley Spencer and finds that every picture may tell several stories
Pam Thompson is intrigued by the dream-poems in a new collection by Charles Lauder
Following in Fitzgerald’s Footsteps: Brian Docherty reviews Ruth Valentine’s small but politically significant and beautifully illustrated new collection from Hercules Editions
Graham Hardie finds much to admire in Marilyn Ricci’s new collection Night Rider
Mining the Motherlode: Brian Docherty finds Jacqueline Saphra to be an entertaining narrator whether or not she is an unreliable one.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, Brian Docherty, poetry