The Bee is Not Afraid of Me, A Book of Insect Poems edited by Fran Long and Isabel Galleymore
-Reviewed by Deirdre Hines- The tradition of insect poetry has some illustrious examples; John Donne’s ‘The Flea’ written in 1633, being
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Author: Karen Goodwin
Re-Dreaming Sylvia Plath as a Queen Bee by Sean Borodale
-Reviewed by Karen Goodwin- Re-Dreaming Sylvia Plath as a Queen Bee is a hallucinatory essay, a daring reclamation of the
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Rebloom, An Anthology of Womxn’s Resilience ed Nikki Marone
-Reviewed by Emma Lee- Rebloom is a poetry anthology that aims to explore the strength and resilience in womxn’s lived
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Leaves by Matthew Hollis
-Reviewed by Neil Elder- The last eighteen months has brought, for many, a renewed appreciation of the natural world and
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do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom by Rachael Matthews
-Reviewed by Jessica Traynor- Published by The Emma Press, this attractive pamphlet was partly written during lockdown, yet the poems
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Rib by Sharon Black
-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey- Rib, Sharon Black’s third publication, is published by Wayleave Press (and beautifully printed by Andrew’s of
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Field Notes by Anna Selby
-Reviewed by Sarah Watkinson- Producing field notes is far harder than writing about field experiences retrospectively from the comfort of
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Hotel by Ali Lewis
-Reviewed by Karen Goodwin- Stepping into the pages of Ali Lewis’ debut pamphlet Hotel, a long corridor of rooms, poems
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The Weight of Snow by Pauline Rowe
-Reviewed by Maria Isakova-Bennett- The Weight of Snow reads as both a sequence of poems In Memoriam of people important
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Aye ok by Charles Lang
-Reviewed by Genevieve Stevens- I first came across a poem of Lang’s a few months back in The Rialto. Its
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