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Black and white composite image of Zoë Brigley and Rhian Edwards.

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

Continue readingWe punch above our weight and compete with the big five
Partial text of the words 'England's Green'. The text is light green serif font on a dark green background. That's imaginative.

Candle flowered kingdoms around the Black Sea

Carl Tomlinson reviews England's Green by Zaffar Kunial (Faber, 2022)

Continue readingCandle flowered kingdoms around the Black Sea
Black and white detail from a woodcut showing skeletons marching and clambering, some playing horns.

Limited only by things unseen

Richie McCaffery reviews Hex and Other Poems by Shane McCrae (Bad Betty, 2022)

Continue readingLimited only by things unseen
A section from what could be a stained glass window; it shows a central diamond shape with a blue background and a yellow horse silhouette standing on a yellow crown. There are diamonds of dark and pale red and yellow around.

Hydra heads of rebellions

Matthew Stewart reviews The Kentish Rebellion by Robert Selby (Shoestring, 2022)

Continue readingHydra heads of rebellions
A red background has a repeating pattern on it, the pattern comprises two open hands with stigmata, a syringe with a needle and some figs, halved and whole.

The wasp in the fig’s tissue, sharp as a slice of paper

Bruno Cooke reviews Stephen the Phlebotomist by Nadia Lines (Nine Pens, 2022)

Continue readingThe wasp in the fig’s tissue, sharp as a slice of paper
Dark purple circles on a pale pink background. The circles look a bit like cells and are surrounded by dots and same shapes in swirling patterns.

The year I was lost in the core of a star

Hilary Menos reviews Ovarium by Joanna Ingham (Emma Press, 2022)

Continue readingThe year I was lost in the core of a star
Looking through an underpass. A house can be discerned through distant mist.

Tangerine seethe beneath coal crackle

Annie Fisher reviews Relativism by Mary Ford Neal (Taproot Press, 2022)

Continue readingTangerine seethe beneath coal crackle
Black background with the face of a china doll, cracked, with piercing blue eyes.

Your gift living on in cracked pots carried from garden to garden 

Maggie Mackay reviews The Doll's Hospital by Jenny Robb (Yaffle, 2022)

Continue readingYour gift living on in cracked pots carried from garden to garden 
Naive painting of the backs of two people sitting on a wall, one has a red headscarf and orange skirt, one is dressed in black

The cruelty and largesse of high water

Mat Riches reviews Summer / Break by Richie McCaffery (Shoestring, 2022)

Continue readingThe cruelty and largesse of high water
A thin black diagonal line running from top right to bottom left separates two blocks of colour, one orange, one white

Deep fake, rush fade, tilt shift, whip pan, smash cut

Jane Routh reviews Dream into Play by Richard Skinner (Poetry Salzburg, 2022)

Continue readingDeep fake, rush fade, tilt shift, whip pan, smash cut
A fifties-style graphic showing the rocky surface of a planet with coloured moons and asteroids. The words 'Space Baby' are superimposed in white.

Maybe it’s already gone supernova

Carl Tomlinson reviews Space Baby by Suzannah Evans (Nine Arches, 2022)

Continue readingMaybe it’s already gone supernova
Part of a painting which shows a foot on a tightrope.

Ready to catch light

Emma Simon reviews the small manoeuvres by Kathy Pimlott (Verve, 2022)

Continue readingReady to catch light
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