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In those days, robbery was my form of love

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

Continue readingIn those days, robbery was my form of love

Chestnut ribbon of speed

Hilary Menos reviews The Luck by Jane Routh (Smith|Doorstop, 2024)

Continue readingChestnut ribbon of speed

Concentrated radiance

Steven Lovatt reviews Ceremony for the Nameless by Theresa Lola (Penguin, 2024)

Continue readingConcentrated radiance
Swirling blue. tinted background looks a bit like sand. There is a flat tree shape possibly made of seaweed and some random shells are lying on the aforementioned gray blue swirly sand stuff.

Grey fank loch

Jane Routh reviews Okapi by Fiona Moore (Blue Diode 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)

Continue readingThe haze of the otherworld
The outline of a shark in almost fluorescent green on a beige background

The wheeling Maybirds

Tim Murphy reviews The Shark Nursery by Mary O’Malley (Carcanet, 2024)

Continue readingThe wheeling Maybirds
Hand drawn title 'GUB' in black on a cream background. A beastly mouth is surrounding the 'B'

A tutti-frutti cigarillo wrap stuffed with Alaskan Thunderfuck

Dane Holt reviews GUB by Scott McKendry (Corsair, 2024)

Continue readingA tutti-frutti cigarillo wrap stuffed with Alaskan Thunderfuck
A photograph of a cuckoo with a smaller bird feeding it.

Let us venerate niche and otherness

D. A. Prince reviews Broadlands by Matt Howard (Bloodaxe, 2024)

Continue readingLet us venerate niche and otherness
Blue and white illustration, possibly a lino cut showing a blue cup on its side with spilt liquid. The cup has an illustration that looks like Lewis Carroll's Alice.

Stuffed Monkey and Other Considerations

Helena Nelson reviews After the Rites and Sandwiches by Kathy Pimlott (Emma Press, 2024)

Continue readingStuffed Monkey and Other Considerations
Pencil drawing showing a cube on a white background surrounded by a green textured corona.

Latte-coloured cannonbirds

Jane Routh reviews No Man’s Land by David Nash (Daedalus Press, 2024)

Continue readingLatte-coloured cannonbirds
Illustration showing an open Hand with what loloks like a ribbon running over the palm. On closer inspection the ribbon is a road with a small car on it.

The good way home

Tim Murphy reviews Popular Song by Harry Man (Nine Arches Press, 2024)

Continue readingThe good way home
Oil painting in mostly grey and blue showing a jug and two bowls on a shelf

Learning about loss

Annie Fisher reviews The Wind and the Rain by Anthony Wilson (Blue Diode Press, 2023)

Continue readingLearning about loss
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