Carol Ann Duffy – Sabotage

Pamphlets Poetry

Pamper Me to Hell & Back by Hera Lindsay Bird

March 1, 2018March 1, 2018 Becky Varley-Winter Becky Varley-Winter, Carol Ann Duffy, Chelsey Minnis, Hera Lindsay Bird, Laureate's Choice Pamphlets, Pamper Me to Hell & Back, The Poetry Business

– Reviewed by Becky Varley–Winter – In Pamper Me to Hell & Back, Hera Lindsay Bird keeps running through wildflowers and

Pamphlets Poetry

Dora Incites the Sea-Scribbler to Lament by Geraldine Clarkson

May 30, 2017May 28, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Carol Ann Duffy, Dora Incites the Sea-Scribbler to Lament, Geraldine Clarkson, Laureate's Choice Pamphlets, Sarah Hymas, Smith Doorstop, The Poetry Business

– Reviewed by Sarah Hymas – Dora Incites the Sea-Scribbler to Lament, one of the latest round of laureate’s choices

Pamphlets Poetry

Spitting Distance by Mark Pajak

May 28, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Carol Ann Duffy, Laureate's Choice Pamphlets, Mark Pajak, Penny Boxall, Smith Doorstop, Spitting Distance, The Poetry Business

– Reviewed by Penny Boxall – Mark Pajak’s debut pamphlet, Spitting Distance, is somewhat like the Tardis. The assemblage of 19 poems

Pamphlets Poetry

Porthole by David Borrott

September 7, 2015September 7, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Anja Konig, Carol Ann Duffy, David Borrott, Laureate's Choice Pamphlets, Porthole, The Poetry Business

– Reviewed by Anja Konig – Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy as one of four ‘Laureate’s Choice‘ pamphlets for The Poetry Business, Porthole

Anthology Pamphlets Poetry

A Candle to Light you to Bed: Four Candlestick Press Pamphlets

August 13, 2015August 12, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Allison McVety, angela topping, Anne Finch, Anne Stevenson, Byron, Candlestick Press, Carol Ann Duffy, Christopher James, Don Paterson, Emily Dickinson, Germaine Greer, Gillian Clarke, Gwynneth Lewis, Henry Howard, Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay, Jane Durcan, Jessie Pope, John Agard, John Donne, Kate Clanchy, Kathleen Raine, Liz Lochhead, Lydia Towsey, Maura Dooley, Roy Marshall, Sue Dymock, Sylvia Plath, Ten Bedtime Poems (Volume Two), Ten Poems About Babies, Ten Poems about Knitting, Ten Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Tennyson, W. H. Auden, William Blake, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, William Wordsworth

– Reviewed by Angela Topping – Ten Sonnets by William Shakespeare Ten Poems about Babies Ten Poems about Knitting Ten

Pamphlets Poetry

Those People by Paul Stephenson

August 6, 2015September 14, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Anthony Costello, Ben Wilkinson, Billy Collins, Carol Ann Duffy, Ed Reiss, Jack Underwood, Paul Stephenson, Sam Riviere, Simon Armitage, The Poetry Business, Those People

– Reviewed by Anthony Costello – Those People recently won the Poetry Business Competition, one of the premier pamphlet competitions in the

Anthology Pamphlets Poetry Translation

In Memoriam: Poems of Bereavement introduced by Carol Ann Duffy

June 29, 2015June 27, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Adrian Mitchell, Bereavement, Billy Collins, Candlestick Press, Carol Ann Duffy, Catullus, Christina Rossetti, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, Edna St Vincent Millay, Elegy, Emily Brontë, Emily Dickinson, Faith Lawrence, Goethe, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, In Memoriam: Poems of Bereavement, John McCrae, Laurence Binyon, Penelope Shuttle, Robert Burns, Simon Zonenblick, Sue Millard, Thomas Gray, William Shakespeare

– Reviewed by Simon Zonenblick – In Memoriam includes a considerable number of poems which are so well known that

Anthology Poetry

The Other Side of Sleep ed. Cherry Potts

January 4, 2015 Editor Adrienne Silcock, Angela France, Carol Ann Duffy, Cathy Dreyer, Elinor Brooks, Ezra Pound, Jennifer A. McGowan, Kate Foley, p.a. morbid, Sam Small

-Reviewed by Cathy Dreyer– I wanted to like the Other Side of Sleep: Narrative Poems. I like the idea of

Anthology Poetry Seasonal/End of year

Twelve Slanted Poems for Christmas (ed. by Helen Ivory and Kate Birch)

December 3, 2013 Editor Andrea Holland, angela topping, Bethany W. Pope, Bobby Parker, Candlestick Press, Carol Ann Duffy, Carrie Etter, Doctor Who, George Szirtes, Helen ivory, Ink Sweat and Tears, Ira Lightman, Julia Webb, Kate Birch, Luke Wright, Moniza Alvi, Penelope Shuttle, Tim Turnbull, W.N. Herbert, William Morris

-Reviewed by Angela Topping– Twelved Slanted Poems for Christmas is the very first publication by the popular webzine, Ink Sweat

‘More Sawn-Off Tales’ by David Gaffney

August 3, 2013 Editor Carol Ann Duffy, David Gaffney, flash fiction, Luke Kennard, More Sawn-Off Tales, Ralph Jones, salt publishing, Sawn-Off Tales

-Reviewed by Ralph Jones– Short, Sharp Bursts of Weird Give David Gaffney 150 words and you’ll be holding his hand