Poetry – Page 20 – Sabotage

Pamphlets Poetry Saboteur Awards

Nothing Here is Wild, Everything is Open by Tania Hershman

August 11, 2016August 10, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter angela topping, Fool For Poetry Chapbook Prize, Nothing Here is Wild Everything is Open, Saboteur Awards 2016, Southword Editions, Tania Hershman

– Reviewed by Angela Topping – I first encountered Hershman’s work as a short story writer published by Salt. She

Pamphlets Poetry

All the Water all the Waves by Kallie Falandays

August 11, 2016August 10, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Afric McGlinchey, Andrew Miller, Carolyn Forché, Dancing Girl Press, Guillaume Apollinaire, Kallie Falandays, Prose Poetry

– Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey – According to Carolyn Forché, ‘One cannot transcend trauma. Trauma is trapped and clings to that

Pamphlets Poetry

The Muddy Banks by Michael S. Begnal

August 10, 2016May 1, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Ghost City Press, Haniel Long, Michael S. Begnal, Peter O'Neill, The Muddy Banks

– Reviewed by Peter O’Neill – There is a wonderful similitude at work in Michael S. Begnal’s The Muddy Banks, between

Anthology Collaboration Poetry

Telephones, Love Hearts & Jellyfish by Winston Plowes

August 10, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Ekphrasis, Electric Press, Gaia Holmes, Maisy Howell, Ruth Robson-King, Surrealism, Winston Plowes

– Reviewed by Simon Zonenblick – The most surreal aspect of Winston Plowes‘ collection of ‘poetry of drinks’, Telephones, Love Hearts

Jam by Cliff Yates

August 9, 2016July 31, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Cliff Yates, Jam, Smith Doorstop, Stephen Payne, The Poetry Business

– Reviewed by Stephen Payne – For once, I agree enthusiastically with a cover blurb: “The poems are moving, surprising

Serious Justice by Jen Calleja

August 8, 2016July 31, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Humphrey Astley, Jen Calleja, Serious Justice, Test Centre

– Reviewed by Humphrey Astley – I first encountered the poetry of Jen Calleja in an issue of Ambit magazine: I

Pamphlets Poetry

Çekoslovakyalilaştiramadiklarimizdanmisiniz or Long Words by Nia Davies

August 7, 2016July 31, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Asylum Seekers Support, Boiled String Chapbook Series, Çekoslovakyalilaştiramadiklarimizdanmisiniz or Long Words, Hafan Press, Nia Davies, Ryan Ormonde

– Reviewed by Ryan Ormonde – Long words betray a push-and-pull tension in speech: if used too frequently, they slow down comprehension.

Anthology Poetry

The Emma Press Anthology of Age edited by Sarah Hesketh

August 7, 2016August 9, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Aileen Ballantyne, Amy McAuley, angela topping, Anja Konig, Bridget Mackenzie, Doreen Ní Ghríofa, Emma Wright, Emma-Jane Hughes, Hilaire, Hugh Dunkerley, Isobel Dixon, Jane Burn, Jed Myers, Julia Bird, Lynn Hoffman, Oliver Comins, Robert Hamberger, Sarah Hesketh, Susan Taylor, The Emma Press, The Emma Press Anthology of Age

– Reviewed by Angela Topping – The Emma Press Anthology of Age is not so much about the problems of being

Kaleidoscope by Laura Taylor

August 6, 2016July 30, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Flapjack Press, Grant Tarbard, Kaleidoscope, Laura Taylor

– Reviewed by Grant Tarbard – Laura Taylor was born into a working-class family, and her whole body of work in

Pétroleuse by Steph Pike

August 6, 2016July 30, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Flapjack Press, Harry Buckoke, Pétroleuse, Steph Pike

– Reviewed by Harry Buckoke – In no bad way, I want to hear Pétroleuse spoken: the strong rhymes in poems