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Seasonal/End of year

Sabotage Reviews’ End of Year Critic’s Choice 2016

December 3, 2016August 25, 2017 Editor A.K Blakemore, Abi Palmer, Andrew Walton, Bang Said the Gun!, Being Dad: Short Stories About Fatherhood, Ben Norris, Beyonce, Burning Eye Books, Caleb Femi, Cath Barton, Charley Barnes, Chloe Stopa-Hunt, Claire Trévien, Clinic, Dan Holloway, David Attwooll, Denise Riley, Edwina Attlee, Emily Dickinson, Fay Roberts, Galley Beggar Press, Genna Gardini, Geraldine Clarkson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Hammer and Tongue, Hel Gurney, Helen ivory, Hollie McNish, James Clammer, Jemima Foxtrot, John McCullough, Jules Laforgue, Katie Griffiths, Leah Umansky, Lucy Ingrams, Lydia Towsey, Maria Ferguson, Maureen Cullen, Mina Loy, Nikesh Shukla, Nine Arches Press, Poetry London, Rialto, Richard Scott, Richard T. Watson, Saboteur Awards, Sally Jack, Sarah Howe, Soloman O.B., Stéphane Mallarmé, Stevie Smith, T. S. Eliot, Tania Hershman, The Mechanisms, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Unthology, Unthology 8, Vahni Capildeo, Vanessa Kisuule, Warsan Shire

It’s that time of year again when reviewers and editors look back on this year’s publications and performances and share

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

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

Pamphlets Poetry

Envoy by Tom Vaughan

March 13, 2014March 12, 2014 Editor Emily Dickinson, Happenstance Press, John Betjeman, John Le Carré, Judi Sutherland, Shimon Perez, Tom Vaughan, Tony Blair, Wendy Cope, Zoë Baird

-Reviewed by Judi Sutherland- Tom Vaughan is not this poet’s real name, but a pseudonym necessitated by his job in

‘One Day in the Life of Jason Dean’ by Ian Ayris

December 17, 2012 Editor Byker Books, Charlotte Barnes, Emily Dickinson, Ian Ayris, Wilfred Owen

-Reviewed by Charlotte Barnes– Byker Books, in their own words, began their publishing mission with the aim of publishing and

Four 2011 Poetry Business Prizewinners (Smith/Doorstop 2012)

September 4, 2012 Editor Carol Ann Duffy, Emily Dickinson, Jack London, Julie Mellor, Kim Moore, Rosie Shepperd, Smith/Doorstop, Sophie Mayer, Suzannah Evans, Sylvia Plath

-Reviewed by Sophie Mayer– The four 2011 Poetry Business prize-winning pamphlets, chosen by Carol-Ann Duffy and published by Smith/Doorstop, set out

Brittle Star #27

August 4, 2011 Editor Brittle Star, Emily Dickinson, Facebook, Gunvor Hofmo, Ian Chung, Luke Thompson, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, Michael Ranes, Nick Boyes, Paul Celan, Saskia Katarina Hida, Terry Jones, Twitter

-Reviewed by Ian Chung– For a literary magazine that has been around for more than 10 years, Brittle Star’s online

Strangers in Paris: New Writing Inspired by the City of Lights

July 31, 2011 Editor Alice Notley, Buttes Chaumont, cafe culture, Claire Malroux, Claire Trévien, Colin Mahar, Culture Rapide, David Barnes, Eleni Sikelianos, Emily Dickinson, Hemingway, Isabel Harding, Jeffrey Greene, Jessica Malcomson, John Berger, Kathleen Spivack, Megan Fernandes, Noel Dolla, Rufo Quintavalle, Shakespeare & Co, Sion Dayson, Strangers in Paris, tightrope books, Woody Allen

-Reviewed by Claire Trevien– Strangers in Paris is an anthology of Anglophone poetry and fiction inspired by the city of

Tidbits of News

June 9, 2010 Editor 52Betty, Battered Suitcase, Emily Dickinson, Kill Author

Apologies for the lack of a proper crit of anything for the last few days. I’ve been ill and I’m