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Partial book cover photograph showing a city at night from above. Traffic and lights can be seen, and a flyover. Black, grey and red are the main colours.

A change in the momentum of the world

Victoria Moul reviews The Thirteenth Angel by Philip Gross (Bloodaxe, 2022)

Continue readingA change in the momentum of the world
Composite image made from two book covers showing (on the left) an abstract shoreline with sky and (on the right) an abstract grey background with white squiggles and brown leaflike squiggles. I know, so many abstract images! It seems to be a poetry thing, the abstract image. Sometimes you get a nice picture of a friendly dog, or a cow. But mostly it's an abstract thing.

More sea than land, more sky than earth

Jane Routh reviews After Clare by William Thompson (New Walk 2022) and A Separate Appointment by Rebecca Farmer (New Walk, 2022)

Continue readingMore sea than land, more sky than earth
What looks like a Japanese wood cut showing four warriors in black and white.

In the Light of Rocket Flares

Maryann Corbett reviews 'One Hundred Visions of War', a translation by Alfred Nicol of 'Cent Visions de Guerre' by Julien Vocance (Wiseblood Books, 2022)

Continue readingIn the Light of Rocket Flares
Textured image in charcoal and grey. It's probably tea.

Language walking across borders

D.A. Prince reviews Colours & Tea (Human) by Tomi Adegbayibi (Muscaliet Press, 2022)

Continue readingLanguage walking across borders
A photograph showing an open hand with some dried flowers on it. The background is pink

Trains necklacing the night

Mat Riches reviews Climacteric by Jo Bratten (Fly On The Wall Press, 2022)

Continue readingTrains necklacing the night
Old copperplate writing on a white background.

Murders, thefts and debts, quarrels and ‘domestics’

Jane Routh reviews Testimonies by Hamish Whyte (HappenStance Press, 2022)

Continue readingMurders, thefts and debts, quarrels and ‘domestics’
Close up graphic of a green leaf. It is partially transparent on a white background, and the veins running through the leaf are clearly visible.

Drawing the clean light in and doing good

Annie Fisher reviews The Bigger Picture by D. A. Prince (HappenStance, 2022)

Continue readingDrawing the clean light in and doing good
A photograph showing golden wheat-like grass with a textured blue background.

A soft labyrinth of signals

Hilary Menos reviews The Grass Boat by Imogen Forster (Mariscat, 2021)

Continue readingA soft labyrinth of signals
Appears to be a watercolour painting in a block graphic style representing sea in the foreground and a sandy seashore behind. The whole thing has a slightly swirly pattern visible. A bit like the circle marks on an artex ceiling, but more artistic.

The wonders this lens can do!

Steven Lovatt reviews Ferenc Juhász: Selected Poems translated by David Wevill (Shearsman, 2022)

Continue readingThe wonders this lens can do!
A black and white woodcut print. It is abstract in nature, but seems to show glasses, one upturned with a spider in it.

Put me in a drum and bang me

Tim Murphy reviews The Barman by Helen Bowell (Bad Betty Press, 2022)

Continue readingPut me in a drum and bang me
Photograph of what looks like a goalpost at dusk. Its hard to tell though, it could be a large staple superimposed on a landscape background.

A good flow is like a fossil / it preserves the time

Bruno Cooke reviews The Lost Chronicle by Polarbear (Bloomsbury, 2022) 

Continue readingA good flow is like a fossil / it preserves the time
Light green textured paper background with two off-centre white dots.

And far away a writer drawing a breath

Regina Weinert reviews Uneasy Pieces by Nancy Campbell (Guillemot Press 2022)

Continue readingAnd far away a writer drawing a breath
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