I could have been betterer. Et-fucking-cetera
Hilary Menos reviews Miracle Theatre’s Everyman, adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, at the Princess Pavillion, Falmouth
Reviews
Poems of witness
Emma Simon reviews The Underlook by Helen Seymour (Smith|Doorstop, 2021) and The Thoughts by Sarah Barnsley (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)
He turns to her, she turns to him
Annie Fisher reviews Pearls: the complete Mr and Mrs Philpott poems by Helena Nelson (HappenStance, 2022)
Whichever life we live, it’s the other calls
Carl Tomlinson reviews Hotel Anonymous by Mike Barlow (Pindrop, 2021)
Selected Ambient Works
Bruno Cooke reviews You've got so many machines, Richard: an anthology of Aphex Twin poetry, edited by Rishi Dastidar and Aaron Kent (Broken Sleep, 2022)
I would make a language out of this
Stephen Payne reviews Speechless at Inch by James Caruth (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)
Three pamphlets: Sarah Mnatzaganian, Judi Sutherland and Hugo Williams
Matthew Paul reviews Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter by Sarah Mnatzaganian, Maggie Mackay reviews Following Teisa by Judi Sutherland and Hilary Menos reviews Badlands by Hugo Williams
Statues to honour hunger
Fiona Moore reviews Eat Or We Both Starve by Victoria Kennefick (Carcanet, 2021)
Three pamphlets: Martin Figura, Leontia Flynn and Naush Sabah
Khadija Rouf reviews My Name is Mercy by Martin Figura (Fair Acre, 2021), Hilary Menos reviews Nina Simone is Singing by Leontia Flynn (Mariscat Press, 2021), and Mat Riches reviews Litanies by Naush Sabah (Guillemot, 2021)
Prizes prised from the perished
Bruno Cooke reviews Please Do Not Touch by Casey Bailey (Burning Eye, 2021)
This is the naming of trees / this is a series of flames / this is watching you all disappear
Clare Best reviews All the Men I Never Married by Kim Moore (Seren, 2021)
Call it Love
Chris Edgoose reviews Bioluminescent Baby by Fiona Benson (Guillemot, 2021)