Poetry – Page 4

Tenter by Susie Campbell, illustrated by Rose Ferraby

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-Reviewed by Phoebe Walker- Patience is a virtue it seems we’d all be wise to cultivate at the moment, as

-Reviewed by Stephen Payne- We learn from the biography that Ian Glass began writing poetry when his wife left the

-Reviewed by Stephen Payne- The front pages of this pamphlet reproduce a letter the poet received from his neighbours in