Penny Boxall – Sabotage

Guppy Primer by Ruth McIlroy

February 18, 2018February 18, 2018 Becky Varley-Winter Guppy Primer, Ian Duhig, Mimi Khalvati, Penny Boxall, Ruth McIlroy, The Poetry Business

– Reviewed by Penny Boxall – Ruth McIlroy’s 2017-Poetry-Business-competition-winning pamphlet, Guppy Primer, is a game of many halves. While mathematics

Anthology Collaboration Interactive Literature Poetry Slider

Aquanauts ed. by Jon Stone & Kirsten Irving

January 9, 2018February 6, 2018 Becky Varley-Winter Abigail Parry, Aquanauts, Holly Corfield Carr, Jon Stone, Kate Wakeling, Penny Boxall, Sarah Hymas, Sean Burn, Shauna Robertson, Sidekick Books

– Reviewed by Sarah Hymas – Images: Jon Stone, ‘Delicate Excesses’; Shauna Darling Robertson, ‘In My Dreams’; Abigail Parry, ‘Minnows’;

Pamphlets Poetry

A White Year by Anna Lewis and The Promise Boat by Mike Barlow

November 5, 2017November 3, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter A White Year, Anna Lewis, Maquette, Maquette Press, Mike Barlow, Penny Boxall, The Promise Boat, Wayleave Press

– Reviewed by Penny Boxall – Anna Lewis’ elegant pamphlet, A White Year, opens with the keen intelligence of a

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

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Quick by Peter Spafford

September 25, 2016September 26, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Penny Boxall, Peter Spafford, Quick, Valley Press

– Reviewed by Penny Boxall – The more I read Peter Spafford’s funny, tender book, Quick, the more I like him. From

Poetry

Spacecraft by John McCullough

July 31, 2016July 30, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter John McCullough, Penned in the Margins, Penny Boxall, Spacecraft

– Reviewed by Penny Boxall – Spacecraft is John McCullough’s second collection, following his lauded The Frost Fairs in 2012. This is a

Poetry

An Ember from the Fire: Poems on the Life of Fanny van de Grift Stevenson by Jane Bonnyman

April 2, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter An Ember from the Fire, Fanny van de Grift Stevenson, Jane Bonnyman, Penny Boxall, Poetry Salzburg, Robert Louis Stevenson

– Reviewed by Penny Boxall – When reading Ruth Padel’s Darwin (2009) I found myself wondering if Darwin wasn’t perhaps

Pamphlets Poetry

Rock Life: 17 Poems from the Welsh Valleys by Gemma June Howell

March 2, 2016March 1, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Gemma June Howell, Penny Boxall, Rock Life: 17 Poems from the Welsh Valleys

– Reviewed by Penny Boxall – In Gemma June Howell’s Rock Life: 17 Poems from the Welsh Valleys, we’re immediately surrounded

Anthology Pamphlets Poetry

A Quire of Paper by Maura Dooley & All My Important Nothings ed. by Maura Dooley

January 31, 2016January 28, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter A Quire of Paper, Abigail Parry, All My Important Nothings, Daljit Nagra, Ian Duhig, Imtiaz Dharker, Jackie Kay, Jane Austen, Jonathan Davidson, Katrina Naomi, Maura Dooley, Penny Boxall, Smith Doorstop, The Poetry Busineaa, Writers' houses, Zaffar Kunial

– Reviewed by Penny Boxall – These two attractive pamphlets, published by Smith Doorstop, are the fruits of Maura Dooley’s

Pamphlets Poetry

Two Pamphlets: The Fire Station by Sarah Barnsley & Father by Mary Noonan

January 31, 2016April 12, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Drukwerk in de Marge, Father, Mary Noonan, Penny Boxall, Sarah Barnsley, Telltale Press, The Fire Station

– Reviewed by Penny Boxall – By chance, I opened Sarah Barnsley’s The Fire Station at its centrefold and central poem,