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Jane Routh

Composite image made from two book covers showing (on the left) an abstract shoreline with sky and (on the right) an abstract grey background with white squiggles and brown leaflike squiggles. I know, so many abstract images! It seems to be a poetry thing, the abstract image. Sometimes you get a nice picture of a friendly dog, or a cow. But mostly it's an abstract thing.

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)

Continue readingMore sea than land, more sky than earth
Old copperplate writing on a white background.

Murders, thefts and debts, quarrels and ‘domestics’

Jane Routh reviews Testimonies by Hamish Whyte (HappenStance Press, 2022)

Continue readingMurders, thefts and debts, quarrels and ‘domestics’
Photograph of a wartime Pillbox bunker on a beach.

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

Continue readingHunker
A thin black diagonal line running from top right to bottom left separates two blocks of colour, one orange, one white

Deep fake, rush fade, tilt shift, whip pan, smash cut

Jane Routh reviews Dream into Play by Richard Skinner (Poetry Salzburg, 2022)

Continue readingDeep fake, rush fade, tilt shift, whip pan, smash cut
A black background with a red brush stroke image that looks like a fox. The image is red and is surrounded by white text with the words THE RAKE in block capitals.

Biscuit, olive branch, small origami frog

Jane Routh reviews The Rake by Tristran Fane Saunders (New Poets List, The Poetry Business, 2022)

Continue readingBiscuit, olive branch, small origami frog
A yellow graphic of a bee seen from above on a green/blue background

Seedpearl work

Jane Routh reviews The Language of Bees by Rae Howells (Parthian, 2022)

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Bright purple background with a light coloured wavy line in a loose arch

Glass through heat

Jane Routh reviews Panic Response by John McCullough (Penned in the Margins, 2022)

Continue readingGlass through heat

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