Hope is a thing with 1. Fur 2. Down 3. Feathers 4. An exoskeleton
Hilary Menos reviews I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriend by Ron Koertge (Red Hen Press, 2022)
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A spill of yew
Rory Waterman reviews Apostasy by John Burnside (Dare-Gale Press, 2022)
The Irish word for love
Chris Edgoose reviews Rescue Contraptions by Joe Duggan (tall-lighthouse, 2022)
Bullets, grenade-shards, mortar casings and barricades
Tim Murphy reviews Notes from the North by Suji Kwock Kim (Smith|Doorstop, 2022)
Bone white, star bright
Stephen Payne reviews Feeling Unusual by Ann Drysdale (Shoestring Press, 2022)
The making of a new crown
D.A. Prince reviews A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu (Bloomsbury, 2022)
You make a mirrorball out of the rain
Mat Riches reviews Glut by Ramona Herdman (Nine Arches, 2022)
Letting the shadow out of the box
Hilary Menos reviews Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland (Bloodaxe, 2022)
SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP FOX SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP
Emma Simon reviews What the sheep taught me by Mary Mulholland (Live Canon, 2022)
Uncharted territory
Helena Nelson reviews Imperium by Jay Gao (Carcanet, 2022)
We punch above our weight and compete with the big five
The Friday Poem talks to Zoë Brigley and Rhian Edwards, the new Poetry Editors at Seren Books
Candle flowered kingdoms around the Black Sea
Carl Tomlinson reviews England's Green by Zaffar Kunial (Faber, 2022)