Poetry – Page 5

New Feature! Regular Night Spotlight: Stirchley Speaks

An introduction from our West Midlands Spoken Word Editor, Hannah Ledlie: “Regular spoken word nights are the lifeblood of the

-Reviewed by Angela Topping- This slim volume covers some very difficult material. The title poem, ‘The Happy Bus’ is about

-Reviewed by Phoebe Walker- Caroline Hardaker’s debut poetry pamphlet is a triumph of contemporary myth-making. The poems in this slim

-Reviewed by Pat Edwards- A pamphlet of just sixteen poems, this is a beautiful piece of work I happily read

-Reviewed by Deirdre Hines- Primers is the brainchild of a mentoring and publishing scheme devised by the Poetry School and Nine

-Reviewed by Katy Lewis Hood- Near the beginning of her debut pamphlet Night Waters, Pratyusha translates a fragment from a

-Reviewed by Phoebe Walker- Longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize 2018, Toby Campion’s Through your blood is a powerful,

-Reviewed by Alison Jones- The Princess of Vix immediately transports the reader into the world of a Celtic princess whose

-Reviewed by Matthew Hacke- According to Critical Poetics Online, Zayneb Allak’s academic research “explores ways in which writing spiders into

-Reviewed by Emma Lee- The title poem starts as an effective list of details that mark the differences between a