Poetry – Page 4 – Sabotage

Poetry Translation

Embrace by Najwan Darwish

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Karen Goodwin Atef Alshaer, Najwan Darwish, Paul Batchelor, Poetry Translation Centre

-Reviewed by Helen Calcutt- ‘Confused, wet through, My hands, torn reaching to embrace mountains’ This is the opening of the title

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Pamphlets Poetry

This Lexia & Other Languages by Helen Kay

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Karen Goodwin Emma Lee, Helen Kay, V Press

-Reviewed by Emma Lee- This Lexia & Other Languages starts by exploring dyslexia through a mother’s perspective of a dyslexic

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Anthology Poetry

The Emma Press Anthology of Illness edited by Amy Mackelden and Dr Dylan Jaggard

January 13, 2021January 13, 2021 Karen Goodwin Amy Mackelden, dr Dylan Jaggard, Emma Press, Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig

-Reviewed by Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig- How does one start a conversation about what it means to be chronically ill, to

Pamphlets Poetry

Tenter by Susie Campbell, illustrated by Rose Ferraby

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Karen Goodwin Guillemot press, Rose Ferraby, Stephen Payne, Susie Campbell

-Reviewed by Stephen Payne- A tenter is a person who stretches cloth, or the framework on which the fabric is

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Pamphlets Poetry

Requiem by Siofra McSherry

November 16, 2020November 16, 2020 Karen Goodwin Grace Atkinson, siofra mcsherry, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by Grace Atkinson- Written in memory of her mother, who died of motor neurone disease in 2012, Siofra McSherry’s Requiem guides

Pamphlets Poetry

Firing Pins by Jo Young

October 6, 2020October 6, 2020 Karen Goodwin Fiona Moore, Ink Sweat and Tears, jo young

-Reviewed by Fiona Moore- A reviewer couldn’t make a better start than by quoting the author’s own introduction to Firing

Pamphlets Poetry

Menagerie by Cheryl Pearson

September 17, 2020September 17, 2020 Karen Goodwin Alice Allen, Cheryl Pearson, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by Alice Allen- The opening poem in Sheryl Pearson’s astonishing pamphlet of meditations on animals invites the reader to

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Spoken Word Playlist #4: ‘Mountain’ by Jet Sweeney

August 28, 2020August 31, 2020 Heddwen performance art, Performance Poet, performance poetry, poetry, Spoken Word

– Written by Hannah Ledlie – I suspect Jet Sweeney’s ‘Mountain’ might be a marmite poem. To test this theory

Anthology Poetry

The Emma Press Anthology of Contemporary Gothic Verse edited by Nisha Bhakoo

August 27, 2020August 27, 2020 Karen Goodwin Nisha Bhakoo, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by Pam Thompson- What is contemporary gothic? Editor Nisha Bhakoo’s aim in selecting poems for this anthology was ‘to

Collaboration Poetry

House of Weeds by Amy Charlotte Kean and Jack Wallington

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020 Karen Goodwin Amy Kean, fly on the wall press, Jack Wallington, Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig

-Reviewed by Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig- Weeds are underrated. Underdogs that thrive in the smallest of spaces with the littlest of nutrients