Anthology

Anthology Poetry 

Schooldays ed. by A . B. Cooper, Ellie Danak & Sarah Miles

September 19, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter A . B. Cooper, adolescence, Becky Spence, Carole Bromley, childhood, Elizabeth Sennitt Clough, Ellie Danak, Gill McEvoy, Lydia Popwich, Natalie Shaw, Nina Lewis, Paper Swans Press, Sarah Miles, school, Schooldays, Sean Smith, Sonya Oldwin, Susan Castillo Street, Tony Cavender

– Reviewed by Susan Castillo Street – In her Introduction to the anthology Schooldays, Sarah Miles comments that our experiences in school shape

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Anthology Short Stories 

The &NOW Awards 3 ed. Megan Milks

August 30, 2015August 28, 2015 dj4twinx Bethany W. Pope, Diana George, Duriel Harris, Jeff VanderMeer, John Langan, Laird Barron, Matt Bell, Megan Milks, The &NOW Awards 3

– Reviewed by Bethany W Pope – It is impossible to do justice to The &NOW Awards 3 in a review which spans a

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Anthology Poetry 

Slow Things ed. by Rachel Piercey & Emma Wright

August 28, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Alexandra Davis, Cameron Brady-Turner, Charlotte Buckley, Di Slaney, Emma Wright, Isobel Dixon, Juana Adcock, Penny Boxall, Rachel Piercey, Rob Walton, Sara Nesbitt Gibbons, Slow Things, The Emma Press

– Reviewed by Penny Boxall – Even on opening the postal package, I was certain I was going to like Slow

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Anthology Pamphlets Poetry 

A Candle to Light you to Bed: Four Candlestick Press Pamphlets

August 13, 2015August 12, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Allison McVety, angela topping, Anne Finch, Anne Stevenson, Byron, Candlestick Press, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher James, Don Paterson, Emily Dickinson, Germaine Greer, Gillian Clarke, Gwynneth Lewis, Henry Howard, Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay, Jane Durcan, Jessie Pope, John Agard, John Donne, Kate Clanchy, Kathleen Raine, Liz Lochhead, Lydia Towsey, Maura Dooley, Roy Marshall, Sue Dymock, Sylvia Plath, Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume Two), Ten Poems About Babies, Ten Poems about Knitting, Ten Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Tennyson, W. H. Auden, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth

– Reviewed by Angela Topping – Ten Sonnets by William Shakespeare Ten Poems about Babies Ten Poems about Knitting Ten

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Anthology Poetry 

New Crops from Old Fields: Eight Medievalist Poets ed. by Oz Hardwick

August 7, 2015August 6, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter A. J. Odasso, Bethany W. Pope, Hannah Stone, Jane Beal, Jane Chance, Joe Martyn Ricke, New Crops From Old Fields: Eight Medievalist Poets, Oz Hardwick, Pam Clemens, Stairwell Books, Wendy Hennequin

– Reviewed by Bethany W Pope – New Crops from Old Fields: Eight Medievalist Poets is an anthology inspired by

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Anthology Collaboration Poetry 

Laboratorio ed. by Simon Barraclough

August 5, 2015August 4, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Collaborations, Julia Gaudelli, Laboratorio, Matt Hills, science, Sidekick Books, Simon Barraclough, Tom Kitching

– Reviewed by Emma Lee – Simon Barraclough spent a year visiting UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratories in Surrey in 2014. Some

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Anthology Short Stories 

Watchlist ed. by Bryan Hurt

July 26, 2015July 25, 2015 dj4twinx Aimee Bender, Alissa Nutting, Bryan Hurt, Chanelle Benz, Charles Yu, Cory Doctorow, Dana Johnson, David Abrams, George Orwell, Hot Fuzz, Jim Shepard, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Lincoln Michel, Lucy Corin, Mark Chiusano, Mark Irwin, OR Books, Paul Di Filippo, Randa Jarrar, Richard T. Watson, Robert Coover, Sean Bernard, Steven Hayward, Watchlist, Zhang Ran

-Reviewed by Richard T. Watson– Undeniably, we in the West live in an age of information, or readily-accessible and frequently-shared

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Anthology Pamphlets Poetry 

Thirteen Poems of Revenge introduced by Sophie Hannah

July 25, 2015July 25, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Candlestick Press, Dorothy Parker, Gill Learner, Harry Graham, Jack Powers, James O'Leary, Sophie Hannah, Stephen Dobyns, Thirteen Poems of Revenge, Wendy Cope

– Reviewed by James O’Leary – Thirteen Poems of Revenge is a small staple bound pamphlet, visually inviting and well crafted. The

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Anthology Short Stories 

The Forgotten and the Fantastical: Modern Fables and Ancient Tales ed. Teika Bellamy

July 11, 2015July 11, 2015 dj4twinx Barabara Higham, Becky Cherriman, Bethany W. Pope, CM Little, Lindsey Watkins, Marija Smits, Mother's Milk Books, NJ Ramsden, Rebecca Burland, Teika Bellamy, The Forgotten and the Fantastical: Modern Fables and Ancient Tales

– Reviewed by Bethany W Pope – The Forgotten and the Fantastical: Modern Fables and Ancient Tales, edited by Teika Bellamy, is

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Unthology 7 ed. Ashley Stokes & Robin Jones

July 4, 2015July 4, 2015 dj4twinx Ashley Stokes, Elaine Chiew, George Djuric, Robin Jones, Roelof Bakker, Sarah Gonnet, Unthank Books, Unthology, Unthology 7

 -Reviewed by Sarah Gonnet– The Unthology is the kind of anti-anthology that fans and writers of weird fiction dream of

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