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Hilary Menos

A white butterfly caught in a spiders web, the image is monochrome

A gorgeous fluorescent yes

Hilary Menos reviews Ephemeron by Fiona Benson (Cape, 2022)

Continue readingA gorgeous fluorescent yes
Four people dressed in sparkly festival gear, one with a blue suit covered in white clouds.They are screaming with joy and waving neon coloured glow sticks. Party on!

I could have been betterer. Et-fucking-cetera

Hilary Menos reviews Miracle Theatre’s Everyman, adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, at the Princess Pavillion, Falmouth

Continue readingI could have been betterer. Et-fucking-cetera

What does Hilary Menos say?

I like poetry that keeps the lid on AND lets the pig out ...

Continue readingWhat does Hilary Menos say?
The three pamphlet covers, Sarah's is white with a green diagonal flash, Judi's has the title in a blue oval on a background pencil drawing of a river and rocks and Hugo's is the shadow of banister railings non a light brown background.

Three pamphlets: Sarah Mnatzaganian, Judi Sutherland and Hugo Williams

Matthew Paul reviews Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter by Sarah Mnatzaganian, Maggie Mackay reviews Following Teisa by Judi Sutherland and Hilary Menos reviews Badlands by Hugo Williams

Continue readingThree pamphlets: Sarah Mnatzaganian, Judi Sutherland and Hugo Williams
Colourful almost paisley image with curving floral designs in the foreground on a background of blue white with brown tendril like patterns

When you are being eaten by vultures they will leave your face alone

Hilary Menos reviews Jongleur by Rennie Parker (Shoestring, 2021)

Continue readingWhen you are being eaten by vultures they will leave your face alone
The eyes of the Bard almost like he's looking through a letterbox, on a yellow rectangle on an off white background

Go long

Hilary Menos reviews Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard (Penned in the Margins, 2021), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021

Continue readingGo long
Three book covers. One with six colourful graphics including a bear and a blow up flamingo, one pink sparkle with a chrome compact mirror and one green with black and dark green text

Three pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird

Mat Riches reviews Coping Stones by Richie McCaffery, Emma Simon reviews The One Girl Gremlin by Phoebe Stuckes and Hilary Menos reviews is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird

Continue readingThree pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird
The words "You're fucking lost 
and fucking found 
stuck in fucking 
chicken town" in white stencil font on a black background

Punk Poetry – bitten the dust or alive and well?

Hilary Menos looks back at the poets who embodied the spirit of punk in the 1970s and 80s and asks where are the punk poets of today?

Continue readingPunk Poetry – bitten the dust or alive and well?
Front cover of Lyonesse by Penny Shuttle. A watercolour of the sea and cliffs depicting many creatures underwater and a long serpentine body emerging with a female human head.

Looking for the ones who will never be found

Hilary Menos reviews Lyonesse by Penny Shuttle (Bloodaxe, 2021)

Continue readingLooking for the ones who will never be found
Three pamphlets arranged in a loose fan shape. 'Diary of a Divorce' shows a woman standing in a doorway, 'the hispering' features an abstract figure that looks a bit like an upside down doll and 'Crucifox' has an arresting yellow graphic of a fox head with a direct gaze

Three pamphlets: S. D. Curtis, Sarah Hymas and Geraldine Clarkson

Richie McCaffery reviews Diary of a Divorce by S. D. Curtis, Carla Scarano D'Antonio reviews the hispering by Sarah Hymas, and Hilary Menos reviews Crucifox by Geraldine Clarkson

Continue readingThree pamphlets: S. D. Curtis, Sarah Hymas and Geraldine Clarkson
Three poetry pamphlets - 'Fridge' by Selima Hill (blue with a white outline pic of a fridge and a goose on?, 'Oh Be Quiet' by Natalie Shaw (white with a bit of yellow), and 'do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom' by Rachael Matthews - dark green with black outline flowers

Three pamphlets: Selima Hill, Natalie Shaw and Rachael Matthews

Hilary Menos reviews Fridge by Selima Hill (The Rialto, 2021), oh be quiet by Natalie Shaw (Against the Grain, 2020), and do not be lulled by the dainty starlike blossom by Rachael Matthews (The Emma Press, 2021)

Continue readingThree pamphlets: Selima Hill, Natalie Shaw and Rachael Matthews
Part of the front cover of The Out-Islands by Martin Edwards showing what looks like an abstract yellow boat

Surfers, swimmers and drowned sailors

Hilary Menos reviews The Out-Islands by Martin Edwards (Smokestack, 2021)

Continue readingSurfers, swimmers and drowned sailors
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