Poetry review – THE BATTLE OF HEPTONSTALL: Stuart Henson admires the eloquent blending of historical and contemporary in Michael Crowley’s collection
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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, poetry, Stuart Henson • 0 Comments
Poetry review – THE SLOWING RIDE: Stuart Henson finds nuanced perception coupled with vivid writing in Will Stone’s new collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, poetry, Stuart Henson • 0 Comments
Poetry review – YES BUT WHAT IS THIS? WHAT EXACTLY? : Stuart Henson finds Ian McMillan’s poetry to be a mix of the good-humoured and the seriously thought-provoking
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, poetry, Stuart Henson • 0 Comments
Poetry review – A COMMONPLACE: Stuart Henson reviews an intriguingly different mix of collection & anthology by Jonathan Davidson
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, poetry, Stuart Henson • 0 Comments
Poetry review – Gifts Without Wrapping: Stuart Henson is impressed by Michal Choinski‘s short collection of poems about human bodies and their interactions
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, travel, year 2020 • Tags: books, history, poetry, Stuart Henson, travel • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – Jim Neat: Stuart Henson appreciates the challenges of constructing fact-based poetry such as Mary J Oliver’s biography of her father
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, poetry, Stuart Henson • 0 Comments
Stuart Henson commends a pamphlet in which poems by Katharine Towers have the space to breathe and to resonate with one another
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, politics, year 2019 • Tags: books, poetry, politics, Stuart Henson • 1 Comment
Stuart Henson wonders about the title but in other respects finds that the sharp-pointed humour in Ian McMillan’s new chapbook penetrates most of its targets.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, politics, year 2019 • Tags: books, poetry, politics, Stuart Henson • 0 Comments
Stuart Henson recommends a budgie’s-eye view of Brexit as set down by John Gohorry
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, year 2019 • Tags: books, Stuart Henson • 0 Comments
Stuart Henson reviews a new novel by John Lucas which, intriguingly, hinges on some lines from a poem…
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • art, books, photography, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: art, books, photography, poetry, Stuart Henson • 0 Comments
Stuart Henson reflects on the serendipity that led to the creation of a high-quality artist’s book from Redfox Press which combines photographic images with poems by John Greening
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, religion, year 2022 • Tags: books, poetry, Stuart Henson • 0 Comments
Poetry review – NAMING OF THE BONES: Stuart Henson engages with the deeply spiritual poetry of John F Deane