Poetry review – PAPER CUT: Richie McCaffery enjoys the approachability of Hamish Whyte’s poems – but warns the reader not to underestimate them
Richie McCaffery
The Life and Times of Fishgate Billyboy: Richie McCaffery welcomes this pseudonymous fictionalised autobiography with its poetic interjections
Poetry Review – Under a Giant Sky: Richie McCaffery welcomes the British publication of a substantial body of work by Toon Tellegen, translated from the Dutch by Judith Wilkinson
Richie McCaffery discovers that D M Black’s ‘light verse’ can in fact go very deep
Richie McCaffery admires a remarkable hybrid of journal and autobiography by M R Peacocke
Richie McCaffery finds the new pamphlet by Donald Gardner to have something of the weight of a full collection
Richie McCaffery examines a new anthology of Palestinian poetry, edited by Naomi Foyle, and finds it eye-opening
Richie McCaffery enjoys a poetry festschrift put together for the 80th birthday of poet, critic and publisher John Lucas
Richie McCaffery reviews a poetry collection by Rebecca McManus which has an unusually tragic background
Richie McCaffery is pleased to have a chance to get better acquainted with D M Black’s poetry
Richie McCaffery takes a particular and personal interest in a new collection from Dutch poet Arnold Jansen op de Haar
CLOSING TIME AT THE ROYAL OAK: Richie McCaffery admires the way that John Lucas has embedded perceptive social observation in a history of his local pub
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, politics, society, year 2021 0 • Tags: books, history, politics, Richie McCaffery, society