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In those days, robbery was my form of love

16/01/2025

Matthew Paul reviews The Ayrshire Nestling by Gerry Cambridge (Tringa Press, 2024)

Continue ReadingIn those days, robbery was my form of love

Chestnut ribbon of speed

09/01/2025

Hilary Menos reviews The Luck by Jane Routh (Smith|Doorstop, 2024)

Continue ReadingChestnut ribbon of speed

Concentrated radiance

19/12/2024

Steven Lovatt reviews Ceremony for the Nameless by Theresa Lola (Penguin, 2024)

Continue ReadingConcentrated radiance
Swirling blue. tinted background looks a bit like sand. There is a flat tree shape possibly made of seaweed and some random shells are lying on the aforementioned gray blue swirly sand stuff.

Grey fank loch

12/12/2024

Jane Routh reviews Okapi by Fiona Moore (Blue Diode Press, 2024)

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And blue things

05/12/2024

Helena Nelson and Hilary Menos discuss With My Back to the World by Victoria Chang (Corsair, 2024)

Continue ReadingAnd blue things
Book cover showing a black background with a watercolour of a hawthorn branch in flower.

The haze of the otherworld

28/11/2024

Matthew Paul reviews The Hawthorn Bride by Victoria Gatehouse (Indigo Dreams, 2024)

Continue ReadingThe haze of the otherworld
The outline of a shark in almost fluorescent green on a beige background

The wheeling Maybirds

21/11/2024

Tim Murphy reviews The Shark Nursery by Mary O’Malley (Carcanet, 2024)

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Hand drawn title 'GUB' in black on a cream background. A beastly mouth is surrounding the 'B'

A tutti-frutti cigarillo wrap stuffed with Alaskan Thunderfuck

14/11/2024

Dane Holt reviews GUB by Scott McKendry (Corsair, 2024)

Continue ReadingA tutti-frutti cigarillo wrap stuffed with Alaskan Thunderfuck
A photograph of a cuckoo with a smaller bird feeding it.

Let us venerate niche and otherness

07/11/2024

D. A. Prince reviews Broadlands by Matt Howard (Bloodaxe, 2024)

Continue ReadingLet us venerate niche and otherness
Blue and white illustration, possibly a lino cut showing a blue cup on its side with spilt liquid. The cup has an illustration that looks like Lewis Carroll's Alice.

Stuffed Monkey and Other Considerations

31/10/2024

Helena Nelson reviews After the Rites and Sandwiches by Kathy Pimlott (Emma Press, 2024)

Continue ReadingStuffed Monkey and Other Considerations
Engraving of Phillis Wheatley, a black woman wearing a bonnet and holding a quill pen.

An 18th-Century Genius in Bondage

31/10/2024

Vincent Carretta takes a look at the remarkable life of Phillis Wheatley

Continue ReadingAn 18th-Century Genius in Bondage
'Un Amour Désespéré by Stav Poleg' in black text on white with a Friday Poem yellow blob over 'Dése'

Un Amour Désespéré

31/10/2024
Continue ReadingUn Amour Désespéré
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