minimum soft exchange by Luke Allan
– Reviewed by Alice Tarbuck – Colloquially, works we enjoy ‘stay with us’ – but not in their original, neat, lineated
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Pamphlets
Robert MacFarlane’s Orphans by Martin Johnson
– Reviewed by Sarah Hymas – Like many readers of Robert Macfarlane, I enjoy his rich forages into British landscapes,
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Accent by Ellen Davies
– Reviewed by Jessica Traynor – Accent is a debut pamphlet from Welsh poet Ellen Davies, and concerns itself with the psychic
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The Hospital Punch by Sally Flint
– Reviewed by Grant Tarbard – I was intrigued by the title of The Hospital Punch, published by Maquette Press
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Night Letter by Fiona Moore
– Reviewed by Jessica Traynor – Fiona Moore’s Night Letter is a short pamphlet of eleven poems, in which dreams
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A Fright of Jays by Marc Woodward
– Reviewed by Simon Zonenblick – Marc Woodward’s A Fright of Jays begins where many poetry collections might end
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“Grief as heavy as red corals”: Terrace by Richard Skinner & The Memory of Water by Abegail Morley
– Reviewed by John Davies – Richard Skinner, Terrace Abegail Morley, The Memory of Water Richard Skinner’s Terrace is a series of poems like
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Fossil Record by Wayne Price
– Reviewed by Stephen Payne – The fossil record comprises rare, fortuitously preserved remnants of ancient animals and plants, providing
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Virtual Reality by Kathleen McPhilemy
– Reviewed by Emma Lee – Virtual Reality is an unpaginated, £3 pamphlet containing one long sequence and three shorter poems, originally published in
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Lapstrake by Wendy Pratt
– Reviewed by Bethany W. Pope – Wendy Pratt’s latest pamphlet, Lapstrake, shares many qualities with the technique which bears its name. In
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