‘Oh-zones’ by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a performance poet, and there is something of the immediacy of the spoken word
Read more‘Organon’ by Meredith Andrea
-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– In this chapbook, the reader is challenged to work out Meredith Andrea’s ‘means of reasoning, system
Read more‘Reasons not to live there’ by Humphrey Astley
-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– This small, self-published pamphlet opens with ‘Homework’, a stream of consciousness that flows, like Joyce’s Molly Bloom
Read more‘Close’ by Theresa Muñoz
-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– As the title of Theresa Muñoz’s chapbook suggests, these are poems that have ‘been felt’ as
Read more‘Spinning Plates’ by Richie McCaffery
-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– Richie McCaffery’s Happenstance Press pamphlet, Spinning Plates, is a collection of layers, interweaving birth and death,
Read more‘Fleeting Magazine’
-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– ‘We like daring, lucid, erudite, amusing and infectious writing,’ writes the editor of the online fleeting magazine,
Read more‘Words Through a Hole Where Once There Was a Chimpanzee’s Face’ by Kelvin Corcoran
-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– Kelvin Corcoran has already published eleven collections of poetry. But this Longbarrow Press chapbook is really
Read more‘Frankie, Alfredo’ by Liane Strauss
-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– To read Liane Strauss’s poems is to sharpen your mind, deliciously. This chapbook is full of
Read more‘The Glutton’s Daughter’ by Sinéad Wilson
-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– Wit and clarity are two words I’d associate with Sinéad Wilson’s chapbook, The Glutton’s Daughter. Her
Read more‘March and After’ by Jon Mitchell
-Reviewed by Afric McGlinchey– In the wake of Japan’s most powerful earthquake since records began, Welsh poet Jon Mitchell batters
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