Karen Goodwin

Self-portrait as Ornithologist by Karen Lloyd

-Reviewed by Vic Pickup- Karen Lloyd mesmerises with her translation of detailed observations into striking descriptive poetry. In ‘Robin’, she

-Reviewed by Helen Calcutt- ‘Confused, wet through, My hands, torn reaching to embrace mountains’ This is the opening of the title

-Reviewed by Emma Lee- This Lexia & Other Languages starts by exploring dyslexia through a mother’s perspective of a dyslexic

-Reviewed by Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig- How does one start a conversation about what it means to be chronically ill, to

-Reviewed by Stephen Payne- A tenter is a person who stretches cloth, or the framework on which the fabric is

-Reviewed by Grace Atkinson- Written in memory of her mother, who died of motor neurone disease in 2012, Siofra McSherry’s Requiem guides

-Reviewed by Fiona Moore- A reviewer couldn’t make a better start than by quoting the author’s own introduction to Firing

-Reviewed by Harry Buckoke- Sarah James’ “multi-media poetry narrative” draws elements from early text adventure video games, horror films and

-Reviewed by Alice Allen- The opening poem in Sheryl Pearson’s astonishing pamphlet of meditations on animals invites the reader to

-Reviewed by Pam Thompson- What is contemporary gothic? Editor Nisha Bhakoo’s aim in selecting poems for this anthology was ‘to