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Matthew Paul

In those days, robbery was my form of love

Matthew Paul reviews The Ayrshire Nestling by Gerry Cambridge (Tringa Press, 2024)

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Book cover showing a black background with a watercolour of a hawthorn branch in flower.

The haze of the otherworld

Matthew Paul reviews The Hawthorn Bride by Victoria Gatehouse (Indigo Dreams, 2024)

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Black and white photo showing three policemen with riot helmets on a Northern backstreet.

STRIKE is a fist beating fast

Matthew Paul reviews STRIKE by Sarah Wimbush (Stairwell Books, 2024)

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A wooden sculpture hung on an old blue wooden plank door. The brown, roughly heart shaped and has a light blue circle in the centre crossed with what look like laces.

Holiday in Barlovia

Matthew Paul reviews A Land Between Borders by Mike Barlow (Templar Poetry, 2023)

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A photograph of a small house, painted half blue and half yellow. The porch is red.

If Tarring Neville was not a village but a procedure

Matthew Paul reviews Instead of an Alibi by Geoff Hattersley (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)

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Some black and white text (part of the book title) on a red background. For extra 'artistic design' points the text lines are slanted diagonally.

Duster Bennett live at Frank Freeman’s

Matthew Paul reviews New and Selected Poems by Cliff Yates (Smith|Doorstop, 2023)

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Pen and ink slightly washed out picture of a man's face.

The weight of history

Matthew Paul reviews Selected Poems 1983–2023 by Ian Parks (Calder Valley Poetry, 2023)

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Three piles of stones on the seashore. Five stones, seven stones, and then five stones. Haiku innit.

What I think about when I think about English-Language Haiku

On form, spirit and resonance: an essay with three commentaries by Matthew Paul

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Slightly blurred mostly blue picture of a white lighthouse on the end of a pier.

Life and love

Matthew Paul reviews Lanyard by Peter Samson (Carcanet, 2022)

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Some mangoes in a basket, and one loose on some large yellowish rocks

The grief I cast is for me

Matthew Paul celebrates the life and poetry of Ted Walker

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What does Matthew Paul say?

I had a succession of very engaging English teachers. For 'A' level, our texts included Robert Lowell and Donne, both of whom I really enjoyed ...

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a green lawn close up with some bowling balls on it , a red flash on the top left corner reads "The Worlds finest bowls"

Considering the effects

Matthew Paul looks at poems featuring bowls by Stephen Payne, Pauline Stainer and Ted Walker

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