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Seedpearl work

Jane Routh reviews The Language of Bees by Rae Howells (Parthian, 2022)

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Dealing in shards

Steven Lovatt reviews Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia (Granta, 2021)

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A woman's chest, her hands are beginning to unbutton her white top.

Luve’s arcane delirium

Richie McCaffery reviews The Mouth of Eulalie by Annie Brechin (Blue Diode Press, 2022)

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Glass through heat

Jane Routh reviews Panic Response by John McCullough (Penned in the Margins, 2022)

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A flower, blossoming / out of the hole in my face

Khadija Rouf reviews Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire (Chatto & Windus with Flipped Eye, 2022)

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A gorgeous fluorescent yes

Hilary Menos reviews Ephemeron by Fiona Benson (Cape, 2022)

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three book covers in a fan shape, one has blue and grey vertical stripes, one has a pattern of hexagonal cells a bit like a hive with a black and white bee on it, one is green with a painting of a mother and daughter

Three pamphlets: Gillingham, Payne and Rouf

Rachael Matthews reviews The Human Body is a Hive by Erica Gillingham, Richie McCaffery reviews The Wax Argument by Steven Payne, and Bruno Cooke reviews House Work by Khadija Rouf

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That first bright garden

Annie Fisher reviews Rain Tree by Ruth Sharman (Templar, 2022)

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A dark shape from the sun

Rob A. Mackenzie reviews Dead Souls by Sam Riviere (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021)

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Mosses and dunlins, lichens and curlew, light and water

Carl Tomlinson reviews what is near by Kay Syrad (Cinnamon Press, 2021)

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I could have been betterer. Et-fucking-cetera

Hilary Menos reviews Miracle Theatre’s Everyman, adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, at the Princess Pavillion, Falmouth

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Poems of witness

Emma Simon reviews The Underlook by Helen Seymour (Smith|Doorstop, 2021) and The Thoughts by Sarah Barnsley (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)

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