Poetry – Page 12 – Sabotage

Pamphlets Poetry

Broken Cities by Katy Evans-Bush

January 19, 2018 Karen Goodwin Angelina D'Roza, Katy Evans-Bush, The Poetry Business

-Reviewed by Angelina D’Roza- Broken Cities by Katy Evans-Bush was one of the winners in this year’s Poetry Business International Pamphlet

Live Literature Poetry Spoken Word

Above the Mealy-mouthed Sea (Unholy Mess in assoc with Omnibus Theatre, Upstairs at the Western, Leicester, 9 Jan 2018)

January 12, 2018January 15, 2018 Sally Jack Above the Mealy-mouthed Sea, Find the Right Words, Jemima Foxtrot, Leicester, Lucy Allan, Mayou Trikerioti, Melody, Omnibus Theatre, Unholy Mess, Upstairs at the Western

reviewed by Sally Jack On a cold, January evening in a land-locked East Midlands city, we pack our metaphorical bucket

Pamphlets Poetry

Hotel Bravo by Alexandra Payne

January 9, 2018 Karen Goodwin Alexandra Payne, Charlie Baylis, Eyewear Publishing

-Reviewed by Charlie Baylis- Hotel Bravo, a debut pamphlet by Alexandra Payne, covers various themes including cats, flats and Jeremy Corbyn, many of

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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

Rosary of Ghosts by Grant Tarbard

January 6, 2018January 5, 2018 Becky Varley-Winter David Mitchell, Grant Tarbard, Indigo Dreams, Indigo Dreams Bookshop, Indigo Dreams Publishing

– Reviewed by David Mitchell – Grant Tarbard returns with this new pamphlet, Rosary of Ghosts. The collection follows him

Pamphlets Poetry

The Sky Is Cracked by Sarah L Dixon

January 6, 2018January 6, 2018 Becky Varley-Winter David Mitchell, Half Moon Books, Sarah L. Dixon, The Sky Is Cracked

– Reviewed by David Mitchell – There is something instantly captivating about The Sky is Cracked, Sarah L Dixon’s first pamphlet

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Pisanki by Zosia Kuczyńska

January 5, 2018January 7, 2018 Becky Varley-Winter Bernard O'Donoghue, Ed Ferrari, Edward Ferrari, Pisanki, The Emma Press, Zosia Kuczyńska

– Reviewed by Edward Ferrari – As the name suggests, Zosia Kuczyńska’s Pisanki (meaning painted easter eggs), largely conforms to

Pamphlets Poetry

Cry Baby by Gareth Writer–Davies

January 4, 2018 Becky Varley-Winter Gareth Writer-Davies, Indigo Dreams, Indigo Dreams Bookshop, Indigo Dreams Publishing, Pat Edwards

– Reviewed by Pat Edwards – Cry Baby is an intense little book, written in crisp, stunted lines. I cannot

Collaboration Poetry

Muses and Bruises by Fran Lock & Steev Burgess, ed. by Mike Quille

January 3, 2018January 4, 2018 Becky Varley-Winter Becky Varley-Winter, Blake, Brookes, Chaucer, Clare, collage, Culture Matters, Fiacc, Fran Lock, Frances Lock, Keats, Manifesto Press, Marie de France, Mike Quille, Milton, Muses and Bruises, Plath, Rebecca Tamás, Shakespeare, Sophie Collins, Steev Burgess, Yeats

– Reviewed by Becky Varley–Winter – This collaboration – featuring poems by Fran Lock, and collages by Steev Burgess –

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Ten: Poets of the New Generation ed. by Karen McCarthy Woolf

January 2, 2018January 7, 2018 Becky Varley-Winter Ana Mendieta, Bloodaxe, Catherine Smith, Degna Stone, Elsie Lacks, Hannah Lowe, Henrietta Lacks, Hieronymus Bosch, Ian Humphrey, Jennifer Lee Tsai, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Leonardo Boix, Liz Berry, Momtaza Mehri, Omikemi Natacha Bryan, Pascale Petit, Raymond Antrobus, Sarah Howe, Ten Poets of the New Generation, Victoria Adukwei Bulley, W.N. Herbert, Will Harris, Yomi Sode

– Reviewed by Deirdre Hines – Ten: Poets of the New Generation does not just offer new voices to the