After reading his New & Selected Poems, David Cooke admires the way that David Scott avoids tricks and consistently plays to his strengths
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Paul McLoughlin reviews a collection set in the 1930s which recreates a lost age that was both golden and flawed.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs welcomes the reappearance of some half-hidden R.S. Thomas poems
Cris Beckett follows the twists and turns of a collection that is both playful and serious… The Prince of Wails Stephen Knight CB Editions, 2012 ISBN 978-0-9567359-6-6 pp 64 £7.99
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs does his best to give an adequate appreciation of a dense, complex and rewarding collection. Drysalter Michael Symmons Roberts Jonathan Cape ISBN 978-0224093590 pp 176
London Grip’s poetry editor considers two very different poetry collections by Eve Pearce and Linda Black
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews… From the Dark Room by Sue Rose and The Very End of Air by Robert Stein
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews At the Races by Michael McCarthy and The Road to Murreigh by Paul McLoughlin. Work & Food by Peter Daniels and Mr Luczinski Makes a Move by Peter Daniels. Wounded Angels by Murray Bodo, Things to Say by John Lucas and Whistle by Martin Figura. Emergency Verse edited by Alan Morrison.
Optimization & Optimism Michael Bartholomew-Biggs looks at links between mathematics & poetry
Thomas Ovans explores the complexities of Bethany Pope’s intense & tightly-wrought poetry
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, Year 2014 • Tags: books, poetry, Thomas Ovans