Grey fank loch
Jane Routh reviews Okapi by Fiona Moore (Blue Diode Press, 2024)
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Latte-coloured cannonbirds
Jane Routh reviews No Man’s Land by David Nash (Daedalus Press, 2024)
Oboes, pine cones, pangolins
Jane Routh reviews Missing the Man Next Door by Annie Fisher (Mariscat, 2024)
A voice from the silence
Jane Routh reviews The Silence by Gillian Clarke (Carcanet, 2024)
Alley Sally, Flash Face, Do-No-Day
Jane Routh reviews Material Properties by Jacob Polley (Picador, 2023)
These moments, rare and marvellous
Jane Routh reviews The Guest Room by Diana Hendry (Worple Press, 2022)
What does Jane Routh say?
I’m a reader of poetry, and, since you can never trust a cover blurb, I’m a reader of reviews too ...
Living between languages
Jane Routh reviews three new pamphlets from Verve Poetry Press – Nemidoonam by Nasim Rebecca Asl, Bird Cherry by Roshni Gallagher and Tapping at Glass by Tim Tim Cheng
More sea than land, more sky than earth
Jane Routh reviews After Clare by William Thompson (New Walk 2022) and A Separate Appointment by Rebecca Farmer (New Walk, 2022)
Murders, thefts and debts, quarrels and ‘domestics’
Jane Routh reviews Testimonies by Hamish Whyte (HappenStance Press, 2022)
Hunker
Following on from Steven Lovatt's evisceration of 'heft' and Chris Edgoose's denunciation of 'palimpsest', Jane Routh takes on ‘hunker'
Photo by Mathias Reding
Deep fake, rush fade, tilt shift, whip pan, smash cut
Jane Routh reviews Dream into Play by Richard Skinner (Poetry Salzburg, 2022)