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D.A. Prince

lives in Leicestershire and London. Her second collection, Common Ground (HappenStance, 2014), won the East Midlands Book Award 2015. A further collection, The Bigger Picture, also from HappenStance, has just been published.

    A photograph of a cuckoo with a smaller bird feeding it.

    Let us venerate niche and otherness

    D. A. Prince reviews Broadlands by Matt Howard (Bloodaxe, 2024)
    Photograph of two people walking on the beach at low tide. A shadowy coaster is seen in the background. This may or may not be relevant.

    There now

    D. A. Prince reviews This is You, Dear Stranger by Paula Jennings (Red Squirrel Press, 2024)
    Section from a painting showing pair of well worn leather boots, hobnails on the soles.

    Sequins stay sequins

    D. A. Prince reviews The Asking: New and Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield (Bloodaxe, 2024)
    A misty photo showing train tracks disappearing to a vanishing point.

    I eat clean but train dirty. That’s perfection.

    D. A. Prince reviews Taking Liberties by Leontia Flynn (Cape, 2024)
    Part of a slightly abstract painting showing (I think) a mirror (or window), a blue door, and some red vertical lines that could be curtains ... or a draped scarf ... or something.

    This ritual of witness and professionalism

    D.A. Prince reviews The Sessions by Jonathan Totman (Pindrop Press, 2023)
    Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, dressed in yellow, striding forward into the projected fantasy of her come-back

    I have never walked a blistering dust road out from San Antonio

    D.A.Prince reviews Hollywood or Home by Kathryn Gray (Seren, 2023)
    Whimsical illustration showing a hill with roads twisting between rocks and a castle atop.

    Something honeylike that makes me lean in closer

    D.A. Prince reviews Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders (Carcanet, 2023)
    Print (an old one by the, look of it) showing a large (for 'large' read enormous) snail with much smaller people wearing hats trying to subdue it with ropes. Some policemen wave sticks and seem to be engaged in a dance ... but maybe it's more sinister! Who knows?

    Working off the movement of the earth in space

    D.A. Prince reviews Dynamo by Luke Samuel Yates (The Poetry Business, 2023)
    What does D. A. Prince say?

    What does D. A. Prince say?

    Rhyme and rhythm: the rhyming couplets in the Rupert Bear annuals, knowing The Pied Piper of Hamelin by heart when I was four ...
    Imagine a map, then make the canvas black and take away everything apart from the roads (in off-white) and some dots where settlements might be, there you have it.

    玫瑰, गुलाब, rose

    D.A. Prince reviews After all we have travelled by Sarala Estruch (Nine Arches Press, 2023)
    Textured image in charcoal and grey. It's probably tea.

    Language walking across borders

    D.A. Prince reviews Colours & Tea (Human) by Tomi Adegbayibi (Muscaliet Press, 2022)
    A black silhouette of a naked woman, kneeling, prostrate, on a bright blue background.

    The making of a new crown

    D.A. Prince reviews A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu (Bloomsbury, 2022)
    An old map of Limehouse in London, the colour is predominantly blue

    Pulled into focus through my mind’s binoculars

    D.A. Prince reviews Old Friends by Hannah Lowe (Hercules Editions, 2022)
    Blue Chinese wallpaper showing a watercolour design with trees and small birds. There are small flowers too.

    If the wallpaper could speak

    D.A. Prince reviews Rock, Bird, Butterfly by Hannah Lowe (Hercules Editions, 2022)
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    08/12/2022

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