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. Without the prompt of someone else’s enthusiasm
Jane Routh
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)
Biscuit, olive branch, small origami frog
Jane Routh reviews The Rake by Tristran Fane Saunders (New Poets List, The Poetry Business, 2022)
Seedpearl work
Jane Routh reviews The Language of Bees by Rae Howells (Parthian, 2022)
Glass through heat
Jane Routh reviews Panic Response by John McCullough (Penned in the Margins, 2022)