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Carl Tomlinson

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)

Continue readingCandle flowered kingdoms around the Black Sea
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)

Continue readingMaybe it’s already gone supernova
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)

Continue readingMosses and dunlins, lichens and curlew, light and water

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 ...

Continue readingWhat does Carl Tomlinson say?
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)

Continue readingWhichever life we live, it’s the other calls
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

Continue readingTo make the unbearable more manageable
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)

Continue readingThis well-mannered patch of green, flecked with red

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