Book Reviews
Tiny shorts the colour of meringues
Annie Fisher reviews Women in Comfortable Shoes by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe Books, 2023)
‘What is the language using us for?’
Helena Nelson reviews Isdal by Susannah Dickey (Picador, 2023)
Duster Bennett live at Frank Freeman’s
Matthew Paul reviews New and Selected Poems by Cliff Yates (Smith|Doorstop, 2023)
Our small Homeric lives
Steven Lovatt reviews Dead Letters by Carole Coates (Shoestring, 2023)
An guish / rather than a guish
Tim Murphy reviews 54 Poems: Selected and New by John Levy (Shearsman Books, 2023)
Holding on against the ebb
Christopher James reviews Whatever You Do, Just Don’t by Matthew Stewart (HappenStance, 2023)
Writing this warring world
Jeremy Wikeley reviews Vevel’s Violin by Jacqueline Saphra (Nine Arches Press, 2023)
Time to swim
Richie McCaffery reviews Hard Drive by Paul Stephenson (Carcanet, 2023)
Waves of lavender shadow growing darker in their blueness
Alan Buckley reviews Up Late by Nick Laird (Faber, 2023)
The forest’s edge
Charlotte Gann reviews Beyond the Gate by Clare Best (Worple Press, 2023)
They cannot subtract me
Stephen Payne reviews Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science by Jessy Randall (Goldsmiths Press, 2022)
Something honeylike that makes me lean in closer
D.A. Prince reviews Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders (Carcanet, 2023)