Alive as the bay tree
Mat Riches reviews Variety Turns by Christopher Arksey (Broken Sleep Books, 2024)
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Our version of the sea not quite knowing how to touch the land
Mat Riches reviews Landsick by Genevieve Carver (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)
recently i’ve been daydreaming of pete davidson
Mat Riches reviews Poems For Pete Davidson by Ella Sadie Guthrie (Broken Sleep, 2022)
To walk, move the ground backwards
Mat Riches reviews Spider Time by William Gilson (Wayleave Press, 2022)
Images of aftermath
Mat Riches reviews Exposed Staircase by Will Eaves (Rack Press, 2022)
Trains necklacing the night
Mat Riches reviews Climacteric by Jo Bratten (Fly On The Wall Press, 2022)
You make a mirrorball out of the rain
Mat Riches reviews Glut by Ramona Herdman (Nine Arches, 2022)
The cruelty and largesse of high water
Mat Riches reviews Summer / Break by Richie McCaffery (Shoestring, 2022)
The end of history?
Mat Riches reviews You have no normal country to return to by Tom Sastry (Nine Arches, 2022)
What does Mat Riches say?
I got into poetry by accident. I remember writing some sort of rhyming thing around the age of five ...
Three pamphlets: Martin Figura, Leontia Flynn and Naush Sabah
Khadija Rouf reviews My Name is Mercy by Martin Figura (Fair Acre, 2021), Hilary Menos reviews Nina Simone is Singing by Leontia Flynn (Mariscat Press, 2021), and Mat Riches reviews Litanies by Naush Sabah (Guillemot, 2021)
Three pamphlets: Matthew Hollis, Holly Singlehurst and Gboyega Odubanjo
Steven Lovatt reviews Leaves by Matthew Hollis, Mat Riches reviews The Sea Turned Thick as Honey by Holly Singlehurst, and Hilary Menos reviews Aunty Uncle Poems by Gboyega Odubanjo