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Mat Riches

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Let trigons be trigons

Book Review: Mat Riches reviews The Windmill Proof by Stephen Payne (HappenStance Press, 2021)

Continue readingLet trigons be trigons
Three book covers. One with six colourful graphics including a bear and a blow up flamingo, one pink sparkle with a chrome compact mirror and one green with black and dark green text

Three pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird

Book Review: Mat Riches reviews Coping Stones by Richie McCaffery, Emma Simon reviews The One Girl Gremlin by Phoebe Stuckes and Hilary Menos reviews is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird

Continue readingThree pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird
Front cover of book 'When I Think of my Body as a Horse' by Wendy Pratt, showing a horse with musculature visible

Body, you are beautiful, you are beautiful

Book Review: Mat Riches reviews When I Think of my Body as a Horse by Wendy Pratt (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)

Continue readingBody, you are beautiful, you are beautiful

Visions of Juana

Book Review: Mat Riches reviews Citadel by Martha Sprackland (Liverpool University Press, 2020)

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You can never know for certain whose head you’re in

Book Review: Mat Riches reviews RENDANG by Will Harris (Granta Books, 2020), winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2020

Continue readingYou can never know for certain whose head you’re in

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