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Oils by Stephen Sexton

March 9, 2015March 9, 2015 Becky Varley-Winter Anne Sexton, Ekphrasis, Oils, Stephen Payne, Stephen Sexton, The Emma Press

– Reviewed by Stephen Payne – In Stephen Sexton’s Oils, full of imaginative, lyrical, layered poems, ‘Long Reach’ is the most layered

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Best Friends Forever (ed. by Amy Key)

January 15, 2015January 14, 2015 Editor Amy Key, Brenda Shaughnessy, Camellia Stafford, Catherine Smith, Claire Trévien, Fran Lock, Kathryn Maris, Kathy Pimlott, Liz Berry, Nia Davis, Rachel Piercey, Rebecca Perry, Sharanya Manivannan, Sophie Collins, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by Fiona Moore– Emma Press anthologies – charming, quirky, heartfelt – are becoming part of the poetry landscape. Best

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Myrtle by Ruth Wiggins

January 9, 2015 Editor Ruth Wiggins, The Emma Press, Wynn Wheldon

-Reviewed by Wynn Wheldon– I thought I was going to have trouble with this, what with the first poem being

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If I lay on my back I Saw Nothing but Naked Women by Jacqueline Saphra (ill. by Mark Andrew Webber)

December 30, 2014 Editor Alice Allen, Jacqueline Saphra, Jan Švankmajer, Mark Andrew Webber, Poetry School, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by Alice Allen- Jaccqueline Saphra’s sequence of prose poems opens with the startling statement: When I was a child

All of the Above Seasonal/End of year

Poetry Round-Up 2014

December 24, 2014December 24, 2014 Editor Alex Josephy, Alice Allen, Amy Ekins, Andrew Walton, angela topping, Annexe, Antoine Wauters, Billy Mills, Box[Ed.], Burning Eye Books, C.A. LaRue, Cecilia Bennett, Charles Whalley, Claire Trévien, Cliff Hammett, Daniel Hales, David Attwooll, David Clarke, Declan Ryan, Denise Saul, Dorothy Lehane, Eley Williams, Fawzia Kane, Flarestack Poets, FlightFeather Press, For Books' Sake, Forks and Spoons Press, Frances Justine Post, George Szirtes, Germ, Hamish Whyte, Happenstance Press, Harry Burke, Harry Giles, Hayden Westfield-Bell, Hercules Editions, Holly Corfield Carr, Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi, Ira Lightman, James Mcloughlin, Janet Stott, Jean-Baptiste Cabaud, Jehanne Dubrow, John Clegg, John McGhee, Jon Stone, Keiran Goddard, Kevin Reid, Kirsten Irving, Leah Umansky, Lily Blacksell, Lindsay Lusby, Literal Fish, Maria Taylor, Maria Walker, Matthew Walton, Miel, Milou Stella, Morgane Rémy, Nasty Little Press, Noni Benegas, Oystercatcher Press, Oz Hardwick, Paige Taggart, Penny Boxall, Peter Riley, Pighog Press, Poetry Salzburg, Rachael Allen, Rebecca Tamás, Richie McCaffery, Rishi Dastidar, Rosie Breese, Saboteur Awards, Sam Riviere, Sarah Hymas, SJ Fowler, Steve Nash, Sue Rose, Tall Lighthouse, Tapsalteerie, Telltale Press, Thamesis, The Bastille, The Emma Press, The Knives, Tom de Freston, Tom Watts, Victoria Bean, Vsevolod Nekrasov, W.N. Herbert, Yu Xiang

-by Claire Trévien- It’s been a busy year for published poetry over at Sabotage Reviews, we’ve reviewed in the last

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Rivers Wanted by Rachel Piercey

November 29, 2014 Editor Adam Bridgland, Eva Ibbotson, Jennifer Wong, Rachel Piercey, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by Jennifer Wong– It is hard not to fall in love with Rachel Piercey’s latest pamphlet, Rivers Wanted, with

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The Emma Press Anthology of Motherhood and The Emma Press Anthology of Fatherhood

November 3, 2014October 31, 2014 Editor Alan Buckley, angela topping, Carole Bromley, Carolyn Jess Cooke, Clare Pollard, Deborah Alma, Emma Wright, Hilary Gilmore, Hugh Dunkerley, Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi, Jacqueline Saphra, Kathryn Simmonds, Liz Berry, Martin Malone, May Swenson, Oliver Comins, Rachel Piercey, Sarah Hirsch, Stephanie Arsoska, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by Angela Topping– Parenthood has been an enduring subject throughout the history of poetry. It is good to see

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Raspberries for the Ferry by Andrew Wynn Owen

November 1, 2014 Editor Andrew Wynn Owen, Annie Finch, C.A. LaRue, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by C.A. LaRue– The last decade or so has seen a revival in formalism, especially amongst women and

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The Dead Snail Diaries by Jamie McGarry

October 29, 2014October 31, 2014 Editor Emma Wright, Gervase Phinn, Jamie McGarry, John Betjeman, T. S. Eliot, Ted Hughes, The Emma Press

-Reviewed by Bethany W. Pope– The Dead Snail Diaries, ostensibly co-written by Jamie McGarry and Snail, is a sweet,

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Homesickness and Exile ed. by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright

October 28, 2014October 25, 2014 Editor Alex Bell, Anja Konig, Carole Bromley, Charlotte Higgins, Cheryl Moskowitz, Elizabeth Horne, Emma Wright, Eve Lacey, Holly Hopkins, Ivy Alvarez, James Coghill, John McCullough, Mary Buchinger, Rachel Long, Rachel Piercey, Selina Nwulu, Steve Nash, The Emma Press, Zeina Hashem Beck

-Reviewed by Steve Nash– Homesickness and Exile, the latest anthology from The Emma Press, takes Ovid’s exile to Tomis on