The Hotel of Dreams
Thomas Ovans browses a short-story collection by John Lucas
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London Grip Poetry Review – James Roderick Burns
Thomas Ovans takes a close look at a collection of haiku by James Roderick Burns
Truths & Reconciliation
Thomas Ovans reviews two new poetry anthologies from two small presses which tackle big themes.
The Hippocrates Book of the Heart
Thomas Ovans discovers that poetry and medicine can mix rather well in this handsome anthology from Hippocrates Press
London Grip Poetry Review – Coles
Thomas Ovans looks at myth and reality as handled in a debut pamphlet from Kitty Coles
London Grip Poetry Review – Roe
Thomas Ovans is surprised – but in a good way – by some subtle oddities in John Roe’s use of language
London Grip Poetry Review- Foyle
Thomas Ovans admires a poetic memoir by Naomi Foyle which celebrates the life of the Belfast writer and activist Mairtin Crawford
London Grip Poetry Review – Docherty
Thomas Ovans admires the fluency and versatility on show in Brian Docherty’s most recent collection
Stanley Spencer Poems
Thomas Ovans browses an ambitious anthology of poems inspired by the artist Stanley Spencer and finds that every picture may tell several stories
Enjoyment
“Enjoyment” is a word that well describes Thomas Ovans’ reaction to Alan Brownjohn’s dystopian comedy set in the near future.
London Grip Poetry Review – Atkinson
Thomas Ovans enthuses over a new (and overdue) collection from Donald Atkinson
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London Grip Poetry Review – Nigel Pantling
Thomas Ovans enjoys Nigel Pantling’s chapbook which makes army life an unexpected source of poetry