Poetry review – BOOK OF DAYS : Nell Prince is drawn along by Phoebe Power’s poetic account of a pilgrimage
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Poetry review – SING ME DOWN FROM THE DARK: Sue Wallace-Shaddad reviews Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana’s poetic exploration of cross-cultural relationships
EAST WINDS: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a romantic memoir by Rachel Rueckert which is also a travel-guide and a critique of Mormonism
Poetry review – A470: Pat Edwards reviews an anthology inspired by the road that runs the whole length of Wales
Poetry review – TRACK RECORD: Kate Noakes enjoys a book of railway-related poems by Sue Johns
Poetry review – TRAVEL BY HAIKU: Charles Rammelkamp commends Marshall Deerfield’s efforts to compress a travelogue into a haiku sequence
The Arctic: Culture and Climate: Resilience and an enduring thriving culture characterise the population living in the Arctic, a large area in the North Pole comprising Greenland, Alaska, some of the northern territories of Canada, and parts of Siberia and Scandinavia.
Poetry review – A POST CARD TO: Alwyn Marriage considers an unusual book by John Greening and Stuart Henson – and advises us not to judge it by its cover!
THE HOUSE WITH THREE EYES: John Lucas encounters a page-turner in John Harding’s atmospheric novel about mysterious events in Venice
Poetry review – A CITY WAKING UP: Brian Docherty detects the voice of a woke woman in Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s new collection
Grange Park Opera Interim Season. Simon Keenlyside: An Autumn Walk in Wales (available online). Review by Barbara Lewis: Context is all, says Simon Keenlyside, as for the second time this year he delivers a musical tour of his own personal context – the woods around his Welsh home.
Poetry review – TENDERFOOT: Anne Ryland admires Chris Beckett’s affectionate poetic reflections on growing up in Ethiopia
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, travel, year 2023 1 • Tags: Anne Ryland, books, poetry, travel