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A background of the stock exchange with the words "The economist can tell you about your bank balance, but the poet has a window into your soul" superimposed

Like worms on the corruption in which they are bred

Hilary Menos reviews The Poets’ Guide to Economics by John Ramsden (Pallas Athene, 2022)

Continue readingLike worms on the corruption in which they are bred
Blue Chinese wallpaper showing a watercolour design with trees and small birds. There are small flowers too.

If the wallpaper could speak

D.A. Prince reviews Rock, Bird, Butterfly by Hannah Lowe (Hercules Editions, 2022)

Continue readingIf the wallpaper could speak
Part of a painting of an Old Testament scene where white-bearded patriarch Methuselah has instructed Noah to open a prophetic scroll which foretells the flood sent by God. Circling ravens add to the sense of foreboding, while antediluvian revellers continue their dancing in the middle distance, oblivious of the devastation to come.

The end of history?

Mat Riches reviews You have no normal country to return to by Tom Sastry (Nine Arches, 2022)

Continue readingThe end of history?
A painting of a woman shelling peas, the clouds are bright, she has red hair and a blue blouse with small white flowers on it

Woods, words, a sword of spells bunched up on a larch

Maggie Mackay reviews Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands by Sarah Wimbush (Bloodaxe, 2022)

Continue readingWoods, words, a sword of spells bunched up on a larch
painting of a verdant hillside with a peacock in the foreground in front of some purple flowers

That first bright garden

Annie Fisher reviews Rain Tree by Ruth Sharman (Templar, 2022)

Continue readingThat first bright garden
A yellow graphic of a bee seen from above on a green/blue background

Seedpearl work

Jane Routh reviews The Language of Bees by Rae Howells (Parthian, 2022)

Continue readingSeedpearl work
Black shapes on a bright pink/purple background. On the shapes the word amino is written in vertical fragments "AM" "N" "IO" "N"

Dealing in shards

Steven Lovatt reviews Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia (Granta, 2021)

Continue readingDealing in shards
A woman's chest, her hands are beginning to unbutton her white top.

Luve’s arcane delirium

Richie McCaffery reviews The Mouth of Eulalie by Annie Brechin (Blue Diode, 2022)

Continue readingLuve’s arcane delirium
Bright purple background with a light coloured wavy line in a loose arch

Glass through heat

Jane Routh reviews Panic Response by John McCullough (Penned in the Margins, 2022)

Continue readingGlass through heat
Could be a woodcut, a black and white graphic of o woman's face, her chin is rising in her hand.

A flower blossoming out of the hole in my face

Khadija Rouf reviews Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire (Chatto & Windus with Flipped Eye, 2022)

Continue readingA flower blossoming out of the hole in my face
A white butterfly caught in a spiders web, the image is monochrome

A gorgeous fluorescent yes

Hilary Menos reviews Ephemeron by Fiona Benson (Cape, 2022)

Continue readingA gorgeous fluorescent yes
three book covers in a fan shape, one has blue and grey vertical stripes, one has a pattern of hexagonal cells a bit like a hive with a black and white bee on it, one is green with a painting of a mother and daughter

Three pamphlets: Erica Gillingham, Stephen Payne and Khadija Rouf

Rachael Matthews reviews The Human Body is a Hive by Erica Gillingham, Richie McCaffery reviews The Wax Argument by Steven Payne, and Bruno Cooke reviews House Work by Khadija Rouf

Continue readingThree pamphlets: Erica Gillingham, Stephen Payne and Khadija Rouf
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