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Part of a painting showing a baldheaded figure with a red nose. There is also a bird wrapped in red thread. The figure has a wooden violin tuning peg stuck in one ear.

A way of saying

Matthew Paul reviews Fool by Greta Stoddart (Bloodaxe, 2022)

Continue readingA way of saying
Black and white print showing a black background with white horizontal stripes. A circle of this is cut out and slid down showing a white background.

The space between bars

Nell Prince reviews Angola, America by Sammy Weaver (Seren, 2022)

Continue readingThe space between bars
Pop Art-style graphic showing a 50s style pin-up girl lounging on a big old American car.

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)

Continue readingHope is a thing with 1. Fur 2. Down 3. Feathers 4. An exoskeleton
Abstract painting with splashes of colour. Shades of blue and purple on a cream background, some splashy shapes, some more kind of smudgy. All looks a bit cataclysmic.

A spill of yew

Rory Waterman reviews Apostasy by John Burnside (Dare-Gale Press, 2022)

Continue readingA spill of yew
Grainy still from a colour film showing two boxers squaring up in a ring.

The Irish word for love

Chris Edgoose reviews Rescue Contraptions by Joe Duggan (tall-lighthouse, 2022)

Continue readingThe Irish word for love
Some white text on a bright blue background, the text is a small part of the words "Notes from the North".

Bullets, grenade-shards, mortar casings and barricades

Tim Murphy reviews Notes from the North by Suji Kwock Kim (Smith|Doorstop, 2022)

Continue readingBullets, grenade-shards, mortar casings and barricades
A drawing of a horses head, the head is looking at us and seems to be on the body of a woman wearing a blue coat. The background is cream and white.

Bone white, star bright

Stephen Payne reviews Feeling Unusual by Ann Drysdale (Shoestring Press, 2022)

Continue readingBone white, star bright
A black silhouette of a naked woman, kneeling, prostrate, on a bright blue background.

The making of a new crown

D.A. Prince reviews A Little Resurrection by Selina Nwulu (Bloomsbury, 2022)

Continue readingThe making of a new crown
What looks like an acrylic painting of vines, berries and white flowers.

You make a mirrorball out of the rain

Mat Riches reviews Glut by Ramona Herdman (Nine Arches, 2022)

Continue readingYou make a mirrorball out of the rain
A detail from 'Hato zu' a woodcut by Konen Uchara. It shows a rolling blue ocean with white flecks and a blue sky.

Letting the shadow out of the box

Hilary Menos reviews Turn Up the Ocean by Tony Hoagland (Bloodaxe, 2022)

Continue readingLetting the shadow out of the box
A poster-style graphic that shows four sheep heads each on a different coloured background. It's like Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings, but with sheep.

SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP FOX SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP

Emma Simon reviews What the sheep taught me by Mary Mulholland (Live Canon, 2022)

Continue readingSHEEP SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP FOX SHEEP SHEEP SHEEP
Black background covered in a myriad of small white shapes. At first the look like birds, but as one looks more closely they look like small abstract figures on horseback. Or maybe on camels. Who knows?

Uncharted territory

Helena Nelson reviews Imperium by Jay Gao (Carcanet, 2022)

Continue readingUncharted territory
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