Seawort, marram grass, a length of rusted metal chain
Khadija Rouf reviews Notes on Water by Amanda Dalton (Smith|Doorstop, 2022)
Reviews
An empty room
Charlotte Gann reviews Towards a General Theory of Love by Clare Shaw (Bloodaxe, 2022)
Ce n’est pas une métaphore
Hilary Menos reviews Our Lady of Tyres / Notre dame des pneus by Claire Trévien, translated from English to French by Marie Lando (Broken Sleep Books, 2022)
Strung like an archer’s bow
Steven Lovatt reviews Unexhausted Time by Emily Berry (Faber, 2022)
Biscuit, olive branch, small origami frog
Jane Routh reviews The Rake by Tristran Fane Saunders (New Poets List, The Poetry Business, 2022)
Life and love
Matthew Paul reviews Lanyard by Peter Samson (Carcanet, 2022)
Three Live Canon winners
Emma Simon reviews pamphlets by Aileen La Tourette, Elena Croitoru and Mehmet Izbudak, winners of the Live Canon Pamphlet Competition 2021
What lies ahead may cause upset
Chris Edgoose reviews WE’RE ALL IN IT TOGETHER: poems for a disUNITED KINGDOM edited by Michael Stewart, Steve Ely and Kayleigh Campbell (Grist, 2022).
A single umbrella is enough to start a revolution
Matthew Stewart reviews The Storm in the Piano by Christopher James (Maytree Press, 2022),
Pulled into focus through my mind’s binoculars
D.A. Prince reviews Old Friends by Hannah Lowe (Hercules Editions, 2022)
Like worms on the corruption in which they are bred
Hilary Menos reviews The Poets’ Guide to Economics by John Ramsden (Pallas Athene, 2022)
If the wallpaper could speak
D.A. Prince reviews Rock, Bird, Butterfly by Hannah Lowe (Hercules Editions, 2022)