Deirdre Hines – Sabotage

Anthology Poetry

Brooklyn Poets Anthology ed. by Jason Koo & Joe Pan

November 3, 2017November 3, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Amber Attiya, Brooklyn, Brooklyn Poets Anthology, Candace Williams, Cathy Linh Che, Charles Theonia, Christine Gardiner, Deirdre Hines, Hala Alyan, Jason Koo, Joe Pan, John Keats, Lemon Anderson, Lonely Christopher, Lynne De-Silva-Johnson, Martin Espada, New York, Ocean Vuong, Patti Greenberg, Sophie le Fraga, T'ai Freedom Ford, Timothy Donnelly, V. Penelope Pelizzon, Walt Whitman

– Reviewed by Deirdre Hines – Few anthologies deliver on their promise to reflect diversity. Fewer still offer their readers

Pamphlets Poetry

Analog by John Gosslee

September 16, 2017September 15, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Analog, Deirdre Hines, John Gosslee, Unicorn Press

– Reviewed by Deirdre Hines – Many poets are interested in how our perceptions of reality are allied to our

Anthology Poetry

The Doll Collection edited by Diane Lockward

June 14, 2017June 14, 2017 Karen Goodwin Deirdre Hines, Diane Lockward, Terrapin Books

-Reviewed by Deirdre Hines- This anthology celebrates the representation of dolls in present day American poetry, in all their diversity.

Pamphlets Poetry

Teaching A Bird To Sing by Tracey Rhys

May 30, 2017May 28, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter autism, Deirdre Hines, Green Bottle Press, Teaching A Bird To Sing, Tracey Rhys

– Reviewed by Deirdre Hines – The questions implied by Teaching A Bird To Sing are metaphoric. In all good metaphors we are

Pamphlets Poetry

This Night’s Forest by Wren Hex

May 30, 2017May 28, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Damaged Goods Press, Deirdre Hines, This Night's Forest, Wren Hex

– Reviewed by Deirdre Hines – The hallucinogenic poems of This Night’s Forest re-imagine and re-represent the stories that underpin our culture.

Pamphlets Poetry

Harp Duet by Phoebe Power

May 30, 2017May 28, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Deirdre Hines, Edvard Munch, Eyewear, Harp Duet, Phoebe Power, Stéphane Mallarmé

– Reviewed by Deirdre Hines – The spirit of Mallarmé hovers over the lines of the thirteen poems which comprise

Only More So by Millicent Borges Accardi

May 29, 2017May 28, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Deirdre Hines, Lynda Hull, Millicent Borges Accardi, Only More So, Salmon Press, Wallace Stevens, William Stafford

– Reviewed by Deirdre Hines – The opening poem of Millicent Borges Accardi’s Only More So, ‘On a Theme by William Stafford’, signposts the

Anthology Poetry Short Stories

Bunbury Creative Anthology: Volume 1 ed. by Keri-Ann Edwards & Christopher Moriarty

March 5, 2017March 7, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Andrew Lee Hart, Benjamin Fisher, Bunbury Creative Anthology, Christopher Moriarty, Dave Shannon, David Blair, Deirdre Hines, Fiona Nuttall, James Johnson, Joe Roberts, Judgement Dave, Keri-Ann Edwards, Kevin McMahon, Kurt Jarram, Lauren Bell, Natalie Dibsdale, Rimal Ilyas, Rosa Wright, Saboteur Awards 2016, Sarah Cottingham, Suki Spangles

– Reviewed by Deirdre Hines – Rejection letters are commonplace in a writer’s life; rarer are the places that foster the

Pamphlets Poetry

The Divers by Arabella Currie

February 3, 2017February 2, 2017 Becky Varley-Winter Arabella Currie, Archilochus, Beth Spark, Deirdre Hines, Homer, Hurst Street Press, The Divers

– Reviewed by Deirdre Hines – There is a symbiosis between Arabella Currie’s The Divers as it is felt in the