Poetry – Page 30 – Sabotage

The Golden Rule by Ernest Noyes Brookings

March 29, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Boatwhistle Books, Ernest Noyes Brookings, Humphrey Astley, The Golden Rule

– Reviewed by Humphrey Astley – Everyone likes a good backstory, especially if it informs or enriches one’s understanding of

Pamphlets Poetry

Imago by Lindsay Lusby

March 21, 2016April 18, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Angelina D'Roza, Dancing Girl Press, Imago, Lindsay Lusby

– Reviewed by Angelina D’Roza – The girl and her eggplant would not be parted These are the opening lines of

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Straight Away the Emptied World by Leah Umansky

March 20, 2016March 20, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Becky Varley-Winter, dystopia, Kattywompus Press, Leah Umansky, Straight Away the Emptied World

– Reviewed by Becky Varley–Winter – Straight Away the Emptied World is ostensibly a dystopian-themed chapbook, but as Leah Umansky tells

Collection Poetry

Not Goodbye by Akwe Amosu

March 10, 2016 Editor Akwe Amosu, Carapace, Carapace Poets Series, Georgia O'Keefe, Nigeria, South Africa, Swanage, USA, Woldercote Cemetery

-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– Akwe Amosu’s debut collection Not Goodbye is littered with false and real endings. Amosu is a

Magazine Poetry Short Stories

Paper & Ink #7: Hangovers

March 4, 2016March 1, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Andrew Climance, Dave Matthes, Dean Lilleyman, Emily Harrison, hangovers, Jenna Clake, Jennifer Chardon, John Grochalski, Joseph Ridgwell, Martin Appleby, Nick Ryle Wright, Paper & Ink, u.v. ray, Vicki Jarrett

– Reviewed by Jenna Clake – The theme for Paper & Ink’s seventh issue is ‘hangovers’, which (perhaps inevitably) results

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Clay by Elizabeth Burns

March 3, 2016March 1, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Clay, Elizabeth Burns, Fiona Moore, Wayleave Press

– Reviewed by Fiona Moore – Pots, bowls, jars, jugs: the poems in Clay take vessels as a starting point,

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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

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minimum soft exchange by Luke Allan

March 1, 2016March 9, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Alice Tarbuck, Luke Allan, Miel, minimum soft exchange

– Reviewed by Alice Tarbuck – Colloquially, works we enjoy ‘stay with us’ – but not in their original, neat, lineated

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Robert MacFarlane’s Orphans by Martin Johnson

March 1, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter found poetry, Martin Johnson, Patrician Press, Prose Poetry, Robert Macfarlane, Robert Macfarlane's Orphans, Sarah Hymas

– Reviewed by Sarah Hymas – Like many readers of Robert Macfarlane, I enjoy his rich forages into British landscapes,

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Accent by Ellen Davies

February 28, 2016March 1, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Accent, Cinnamon Press, Ellen Davies, Jessica Traynor

– Reviewed by Jessica Traynor – Accent is a debut pamphlet from Welsh poet Ellen Davies, and concerns itself with the psychic