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Carl Tomlinson

lives on a smallholding in Oxfordshire. He works as a business coach and virtual finance director. His work been published online, in anthologies, and in Orbis, South, The Hope Valley Journal and The Alchemy Spoon. Carl Tomlinson’s debut pamphlet Changing Places was published in 2021 by Fair Acre Press.

    Partial text of the words 'England's Green'. The text is light green serif font on a dark green background. That's imaginative.

    Candle flowered kingdoms around the Black Sea

    Carl Tomlinson reviews England's Green by Zaffar Kunial (Faber, 2022)
    A fifties-style graphic showing the rocky surface of a planet with coloured moons and asteroids. The words 'Space Baby' are superimposed in white.

    Maybe it’s already gone supernova

    Carl Tomlinson reviews Space Baby by Suzannah Evans (Nine Arches, 2022)
    A clump of light green moss on a black background

    Mosses and dunlins, lichens and curlew, light and water

    Carl Tomlinson reviews what is near by Kay Syrad (Cinnamon, 2021)
    What does Carl Tomlinson say?

    What does Carl Tomlinson say?

    It's hard to remember a time when poetry didn't delight me. I'm enchanted by the possibilities of language ...
    Slightly abstract painting in block colours, Yellow, beige, green, grey, sky blue, representing a building, the sky with a sun or a moon and a single window. oh, and some bricks

    Whichever life we live, it’s the other calls

    Carl Tomlinson reviews Hotel Anonymous by Mike Barlow (Pindrop, 2021)
    Oil painting of a woman dressed in blue holding a baby. She is sitting in front of the ocean and looks like she may be eating a biscuit. Looks like the child may also be eating a biscuit too. The predominant colours is blue.

    To make the unbearable more manageable

    Carl Tomlinson reviews Where the Birds Sing Our Names, An Anthology for Tŷ Hafan (Seren, 2021) edited by Tony Curtis
    collage art incorporating a mans back, a woman's leg, various plants, a lobster claw , a turtle shell and a fly agaric mushroom. All on a pale blue background.

    This well-mannered patch of green, flecked with red

    Carl Tomlinson reviews This Fruiting Body by Caleb Parkin (Nine Arches, 2021)
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