Warsan Shire – Sabotage

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

Pamphlets Poetry Seasonal/End of year

The end of #pamphletparty: a round-up of the review-a-thon

January 1, 2016January 1, 2016 Editor #pamphletparty, Adam Horovitz, Adrian Sobol, Art Editions North, Burning Eye Books, Cinnamon Press, Corina Copp, Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Erbacce Press, Finishing Line Press, flipped eye, Floating Wolf Quarterly, Gold Line Press, Happenstance, Helen Evans, Indigo Dreams Publishing, Inua Ellams, Jake Campbell, Jaswinder Bolina, Josephine Corcoran, Kristy Bowen, Lucy Furlong, Lynn Pedersen, Neil Elder, Reuben Woolley, Sarah Hymas, Selina Nwulu, Sophie Reynolds, Tall Lighthouse, Ugly Duckling Press, Warsan Shire, Yew Tree Press

–Claire Trévien– This December I reviewed one poetry pamphlet a day – a challenge made trickier by the fact that

Pamphlets Poetry

Objects of Desire by Sophie Essex, Review #2

December 2, 2015December 4, 2015 Editor #pamphletparty, Pyramid Editions, Sophie Essex, Warsan Shire

-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– The temptation with this kind of challenge is to compare each poet to the one reviewed

Pamphlets Poetry

Teaching my mother how to give birth by Warsan Shire, Review #1

December 1, 2015December 9, 2015 Editor #pamphletparty, flipped eye, Warsan Shire

-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– When I think of 2015, Warsan Shire is the poet who comes to mind. It’s often

Anthology Poetry

Ten: The New Wave, ed. by Karen McCarthy Woolf

December 2, 2014December 1, 2014 Editor Adam Lowe, Bernardine Evaristo, Bloodaxe, Eileen Pun, Ghetto van Gogh, Inua Ellams, Jay Bernard, Kamau Brathwaite, Kayo Chingonyi, Mona Arshi Sujata Bhatt, Rishi Dastidar, Sarah Howe, Sohini Basak, Warsan Shire

-Reviewed by Sohini Basak– A poetry anthology titled Ten the New Wave may need a bit of a context for