Poetry – Page 30 – Sabotage

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

Pamphlets Poetry

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,

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

Pamphlets Poetry

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

Pamphlets Poetry

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,

Pamphlets Poetry

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

Pamphlets Poetry

The Hospital Punch by Sally Flint

February 28, 2016February 24, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Grant Tarbard, Hospitals, Maquette, Sally Flint, The Hospital Punch

– Reviewed by Grant Tarbard – I was intrigued by the title of The Hospital Punch, published by Maquette Press

Father, Husband by Scherezade Siobhan

February 27, 2016February 24, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Albert Camus, Father Husband, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Owen Vince, Salo Press, Scherezade Siobhan

– Reviewed by Owen Vince – (Content notice: this review contains material on rape). In her essay ‘Not Safe for Porn’,

Pamphlets Poetry

Night Letter by Fiona Moore

February 26, 2016February 23, 2016 Becky Varley-Winter Fiona Moore, Happenstance, Jessica Traynor, Night Letter

– Reviewed by Jessica Traynor – Fiona Moore’s Night Letter is a short pamphlet of eleven poems, in which dreams