What belongs outside, and what comes in
Isabelle Thompson reviews May Swim by Katie Donovan (Bloodaxe, 2024)
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Dunna wittle, it’ll be reet
Isabelle Thompson reviews Ostriches: Ten Poems about My Dad by Jeanette Burton (Candlestick Press, 2024)
Across the border
Isabelle Thompson reviews Come Here to This Gate by Rory Waterman (Carcanet, 2024)
My oddly capable body
Isabelle Thompson reviews The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish by Nuala Watt (Blue Diode, 2024)
The dull click-clink of gold against formica
Isabelle Thompson reviews I Think We’re Alone Now by Abigail Parry (Bloodaxe Books, 2023)
Each brief puncture of the incoming tide
Isabelle Thompson reviews Collecting the Data by Mat Riches (Red Squirrel Press, 2023)
As if to map the hidden history
Isabelle Thompson reviews Cargo by Charlotte Gann (Mariscat Press, 2023)
Mixed feelings about gravity
Isabelle Thompson reviews three new pamphlets from ignitionpress
* […] Mol is an imaginary friend, the latest fad everyone wants to get their hands on [go to page 18]
Isabelle Thompson reviews Making Sense by Dide (Verve Poetry, 2023)
How else were you to mend lineage?
Isabelle Thompson reviews Ixora by Prerana Kumar (Guillemot Press, 2023)
All the blues and greens
Isabelle Thompson reviews Say It With Me by Vanessa Lampert (Seren, 2023)
What does say Isabelle Thompson say?
When I was two years old I wanted to be a bus driver or an orchestra conductor – the latter because I wanted to wave my arms about a lot ...