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Three cover images. The first shows some red fruits on branches, the second shows a prism or beaker with blue shapes inside and the third is a turquoise and blue wavy pattern.

Living between languages

Jane Routh reviews three new pamphlets from Verve Poetry Press – Nemidoonam by Nasim Rebecca Asl, Bird Cherry by Roshni Gallagher and Tapping at Glass by Tim Tim Cheng

Continue readingLiving between languages
Graphic with a white background showing various leaf like shapes, predominantly blue and black with the occasional green and orange . They could be seaweed. Who knows.

Crash the force shield of this screen

Emma Simon reviews The Kingdom by Jane Draycott (Carcanet, 2022)

Continue readingCrash the force shield of this screen
Graphic print showing a woman's head and arm in pale colours. She is wearing a crown of flowers.

of bodies / of light / of weightlessness

Khadija Rouf reviews Antonyms for Burial by Ellora Sutton (Fourteen Poems, 2022)

Continue readingof bodies / of light / of weightlessness
Part of a graphic showing the top of a wooden noticeboard such as one would seen a church. The top has a small flower cutout.

Of difference, and of faith and its loss

Maggie Mackay reviews Hymnal by Julia Bell (Parthian, 2023)

Continue readingOf difference, and of faith and its loss
A bold orange cover showing a line / brush outline of a male torso.

A rebozo threaded by an ancient needle

Richie McCaffery reviews At Least This I Know by Andrés N. Ordorica (404 Ink, 2022)

Continue readingA rebozo threaded by an ancient needle
A close up showing two torn pieces of pink paper with slightly burnt edges.

Snowfall mixes with burning ash

Tim Murphy reviews To An Occupier Burning Holes by Ken Evans (Salt, 2022)

Continue readingSnowfall mixes with burning ash
An old black and white photo of two kids, one older boy and a younger girl.

Catch the heart off guard and blow it open

Annie Fisher reviews Skin & Blister by Blake Morrison (Mariscat, 2023)

Continue readingCatch the heart off guard and blow it open
Section of a multi coloured book cover (think slightly psychedelic swirly greens pinks and purples). Part of the words "Dirty Martini" can be seen in block capitals.

SEQUINS NOW

Isabelle Thompson reviews Dirty Martini by Natalie Shaw (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)

Continue readingSEQUINS NOW
A close up black and white picture of a fallen wine glass, and dark liquid is splashing out.

Blown like glass into brittle intricacies

Hilary Menos reviews Slide by Mark Pajak (Cape, 2022)

Continue readingBlown like glass into brittle intricacies
Imagine a map, then make the canvas black and take away everything apart from the roads (in off-white) and some dots where settlements might be, there you have it.

玫瑰, गुलाब, rose

D.A. Prince reviews After all we have travelled by Sarala Estruch (Nine Arches Press, 2023)

Continue reading玫瑰, गुलाब, rose
Mostly orange and orange tinted cover showing what looks like a woman's face half hidden by something that appears to be a vertical semi transparent column with thin diagonal white stripes on it.

Monsoon night-song

Steven Lovatt reviews Mother of Flip-Flops by Mukahang Limbu (Out-Spoken Press, 2022)

Continue readingMonsoon night-song
Delicate watercolour showing thin branches with red flowers and two small birds flying nearby.

There are some things that can’t be washed away

Tim Murphy reviews Sing Me Down from the Dark by Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana (Salt, 2022)

Continue readingThere are some things that can’t be washed away
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