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Pamphlets Poetry

There Was and How Much There Was by Zeina Hashem Beck

March 6, 2017March 5, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Laureate's Choice Pamphlets, Smith Doorstop, There Was And How Much There Was, Zeina Hashem Beck

– Reviewed by Jennifer Wong – Zeina Hashem Beck’s poetic gift is unmistakable. There is so much to admire in the

Pamphlets Poetry

ju ju baby by Caroline Carver

March 6, 2017March 6, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Caroline Carver, Grant Tarbard, Indigo Dreams, Indigo Dreams Bookshop, Indigo Dreams Publishing, ju ju baby

– Reviewed by Grant Tarbard – Caroline Carver’s poems are woven with fine threads, without pomp, but with vulnerability and tempestuous

Pamphlets Poetry

Declare by Geraldine Clarkson

March 5, 2017March 5, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Declare, Geraldine Clarkson, John Mee, Shearsman

– Reviewed by John Mee – Declare is one of a trio of publications by Geraldine Clarkson in 2016. Its

Anthology Poetry Short Stories

Bunbury Creative Anthology: Volume 1 ed. by Keri-Ann Edwards & Christopher Moriarty

March 5, 2017March 7, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Andrew Lee Hart, Benjamin Fisher, Bunbury Creative Anthology, Christopher Moriarty, Dave Shannon, David Blair, Deirdre Hines, Fiona Nuttall, James Johnson, Joe Roberts, Judgement Dave, Keri-Ann Edwards, Kevin McMahon, Kurt Jarram, Lauren Bell, Natalie Dibsdale, Rimal Ilyas, Rosa Wright, Saboteur Awards 2016, Sarah Cottingham, Suki Spangles

– Reviewed by Deirdre Hines – Rejection letters are commonplace in a writer’s life; rarer are the places that foster the

Anthology Poetry

Urban Myths and Legends: Poems About Transformations ed. by Rachel Piercey & Emma Wright

March 5, 2017May 1, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Bethany W. Pope, Emma Wright, Joe Lines, Metamorphoses, Ovid, Rachel Piercey, Richard O'Brien, The Emma Press, Urban Myths and Legends: Poems About Transformations

– Reviewed by Bethany W. Pope – Urban Myths and Legends is an ambitious, fascinating, largely successful reworking of Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Pamphlets Poetry

Loneliness Is the Machine that Drives the World by Grant Tarbard

March 5, 2017March 5, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Grant Tarbard, Humphrey Astley, Loneliness Is the Machine that Drives the World, Platypus Press

– Reviewed by Humphrey Astley – As this short collection’s title – Loneliness Is the Machine that Drives the World – suggests,

Pamphlets Poetry

Invalid by Pen Reid

February 28, 2017March 17, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Invalid, Matthew Hacke, Pen Reid

– Reviewed by Matthew Hacke – Pen Reid’s Invalid is a sharp exposure of a family living with debilitating illness.

Anthology Poetry

Asterism: An anthology of poems inspired by punctuation ed. by Tiffany Anne Tondut

February 8, 2017February 8, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Amy Key, Asterism: An anthology of poems inspired by punctuation, Camellia Stafford, Edward Venning, Hannah Lowe, Harry Mann, Jennifer Edgecombe, Jon Stone, Julia Bird, Laudanum, Philip Terry, punctuation, Simon Barraclough, Tiffany Anne Tondut

– Reviewed by Jennifer Edgecombe – An Asterism ⁂, as well as being the word for a pattern of stars

Pamphlets Poetry

The Divers by Arabella Currie

February 3, 2017February 2, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Arabella Currie, Archilochus, Beth Spark, Deirdre Hines, Homer, Hurst Street Press, The Divers

– Reviewed by Deirdre Hines – There is a symbiosis between Arabella Currie’s The Divers as it is felt in the

Poetry Translation

Beyond the Barbed Wire by Abdellatif Laâbi, translated by André Naffis-Sahely

November 21, 2016February 2, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Abdellatif Laâbi, Abraham T. Zere, André Naffis-Sahely, Carcanet, Moroccan poetry, translation

– Reviewed by Abraham T. Zere* – André Naffis-Sahely’s translation of the Moroccan poet Abdellatif Laâbi’s selected poems, Beyond the