Undisturbed Circles by Bethany W. Pope
-Reviewed by Steve Nash– Many moons ago, in the days of togas and popular bucolic mime, an Alexandrian poet named
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The Hard Word Box by Sarah Hesketh
-Reviewed by Anja Konig– The first thing you notice about Sarah Hesketh’s The Hard Word Box is the title. Is
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Beast by Frances Justine Post
-Reviewed by Cecilia Bennett- In ‘Self-Portrait as Beast’, Frances Justine Post’s introductory poem in this début collection, the narrator puts
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Outside Looking On by Chimène Suleyman
-Reviewed by Charles Whalley– A common workshop exercise is to trim the first lines from a poem, to fend off
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Letting Go by Angela Topping
-Reviewed by Emma Lee– The title is from a Cecil Day-Lewis quote: ‘How selfhood begins with a walking away, /
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‘Above Sugar Hill’ by Linda Mannheim
-Reviewed by Nick Murray- It’s like all those snapshots of New York – Brooklyn and Manhattan – in the 70s
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In The Cinema by Stephen Bone
-Reviewed by Tom Crompton– In The Cinema is in itself a private picture house, a careful framing of moments.
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Rapture And What Comes After by Virginia Moffatt
-Reviewed by Cath Barton- It is always interesting to see how writers order collections of short fiction. Virginia Moffatt’s idea
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Museum Pieces by Wendy Pratt
-Reviewed by Claire Trévien- The opening poem to Museum Pieces, and its namesake, tells us that ‘These things are not
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1001 Louisiana Nights: Hot New Poetry from the Humid State
-Reviewed by C.A. LaRue– Whether chasing the rhythms of old-school Acadiana, the Wild West rodeo or Scheherazade herself, the latest
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