Poetry – Page 20 – Sabotage

Pamphlets Poetry

Blueprints for a Minefield by Shauna Robertson

August 5, 2016July 30, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Blueprints for a Minefield, Fair Acre Press, James O'Leary, Shauna Robertson

– Reviewed by James O’Leary – “The day we met, I started work on the axe.” The opening poem of Shauna

Pamphlets Poetry

Ol Donyo Ebor: Climbing the Mountain by Luigi Marchini

August 4, 2016July 30, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Dementia UK, JPL, Luigi Marchini, Ol Donyo Ebor: Climbing the Mountain, self-publishing

– Reviewed by JPL – Of all self-published books, Ol Donyo Ebor: Climbing the Mountain is the one to buy, a too-rare

Anthology Poetry

Best British Poetry 2015 edited by Emily Berry

August 4, 2016August 8, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Alex MacDonald, Aria Aber, Astrid Alben, Best British Poetry 2015, Emily Berry, Jesse Darling, Kit Buchan, Luke Kennard, Rachael Allen, Salt, Selima Hill, Sophie Mayer

– Reviewed by Jenna Clake – In her introduction to Best British Poetry 2015, Emily Berry states that when she was

Anthology Poetry

The Chronicles of Eve edited by Ellie Danak, Sarah Miles & Wendy Pratt

August 3, 2016August 9, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Autumn Konopka, Carole Bromley, Claire Walker, Ellie Danak, Feminism, Gill Lambert, John Foggin, Karen Dennison, Karen Little, Kate Garrett, Paper Swans Press, Rachel Nix, Sarah James, Sarah Miles, Steve Nash, The Chronicles of Eve, Victoria Gatehouse, Wendy Pratt

– Reviewed by Steve Nash – Paper Swans Press’ The Chronicles of Eve, edited by Ellie Danak, Sarah Miles, and

Ghost of the Fisher Cat by Afric McGlinchey

August 3, 2016August 10, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Afric McGlinchey, Ghost of the Fisher Cat, Grant Tarbard, Paris, Salmon Poetry

– Reviewed by Grant Tarbard – Galway-born Afric McGlinchey has been far and wide and I can smell the adventure in Ghost

Pamphlets Poetry

Swimming with Endorphins by Fran Isherwood

August 2, 2016July 30, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Emma Lee, Fran Isherwood, Swimming With Endorphins

– Reviewed by Emma Lee – The title of Swimming With Endorphins suggests that these will be light-hearted, punning poems that

Strangers Like You by Mark Mansfield

August 2, 2016July 30, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Charlie Baylis, Louis MacNeice, Mark Mansfield, Strangers Like You, Van der Decken Press

– Reviewed by Charlie Baylis – Dropped off by Dad, each summer, we’d explore the wash house where she kept her

Pamphlets Poetry

Border Lines by Stuart A. Paterson

August 2, 2016July 30, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Border Lines, Indigo Dreams, Indigo Dreams Bookshop, Indigo Dreams Publishing, Jessica Traynor, Poetry of place, Stuart A. Paterson

– Reviewed by Jessica Traynor – Border Lines is a work of psychogeography as much as poetry, making the topography

The Rag and Boneyard by Bethany W. Pope

August 1, 2016July 30, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Bethany W. Pope, Demeter, Elizabeth Rimmer, Homeric Hymns, Indigo Dreams, Indigo Dreams Bookshop, Indigo Dreams Publishing, Myth, Persephone, The Rag and Boneyard

– Reviewed by Elizabeth Rimmer – The Rag and Boneyard is described as a ‘take on the myth of Persephone, re-visioned

Anthology Live Literature Poetry

Alice: Ekphrasis at the British Library

August 1, 2016July 30, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Alice in Wonderland, Alice: Ekphrasis at the British Library, Andrew McMillan, Anna Kisby, Helen ivory, Jenna Clake, Lewis Carroll, Luke Wright, Miriam Gamble, Sarah Salway, Sharon Black, Vanessa Gebbie

– Reviewed by Jenna Clake – Alice is an anthology celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s