Pamphlet Reviews
A spill of yew
Rory Waterman reviews Apostasy by John Burnside (Dare-Gale Press, 2022)
Bullets, grenade-shards, mortar casings and barricades
Tim Murphy reviews Notes from the North by Suji Kwock Kim (Smith|Doorstop, 2022)
SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP FOX SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP
Emma Simon reviews What the sheep taught me by Mary Mulholland (Live Canon, 2022)
Limited only by things unseen
Richie McCaffery reviews Hex and Other Poems by Shane McCrae (Bad Betty, 2022)
The wasp in the fig’s tissue, sharp as a slice of paper
Bruno Cooke reviews Stephen the Phlebotomist by Nadia Lines (Nine Pens, 2022)
The year I was lost in the core of a star
Hilary Menos reviews Ovarium by Joanna Ingham (Emma Press, 2022)
Deep fake, rush fade, tilt shift, whip pan, smash cut
Jane Routh reviews Dream into Play by Richard Skinner (Poetry Salzburg, 2022)
The mind begins this squeaking
Nell Prince reviews Finishing School by Michaela Coplen (Ignition, 2022)
Seawort, marram grass, a length of rusted metal chain
Khadija Rouf reviews Notes on Water by Amanda Dalton (Smith|Doorstop, 2022)
Ce n’est pas une métaphore
Hilary Menos reviews Our Lady of Tyres / Notre dame des pneus by Claire Trévien, translated from English to French by Marie Lando (Broken Sleep Books, 2022)
Biscuit, olive branch, small origami frog
Jane Routh reviews The Rake by Tristran Fane Saunders (New Poets List, The Poetry Business, 2022)
Three Live Canon winners
Emma Simon reviews pamphlets by Aileen La Tourette, Elena Croitoru and Mehmet Izbudak, winners of the Live Canon Pamphlet Competition 2021