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)
Reviews
Call it Love
Chris Edgoose reviews Bioluminescent Baby by Fiona Benson (Guillemot, 2021)
Three pamphlets: Matthew Hollis, Holly Singlehurst and Gboyega Odubanjo
Steven Lovatt reviews Leaves by Matthew Hollis, Mat Riches reviews The Sea Turned Thick as Honey by Holly Singlehurst, and Hilary Menos reviews Aunty Uncle Poems by Gboyega Odubanjo
To make the unbearable more manageable
Carl Tomlinson reviews Where the Birds Sing Our Names, An Anthology for Tŷ Hafan (Seren, 2021) edited by Tony Curtis
Rippled ink
Charlotte Gann reviews Be Feared by Jane Burn (Nine Arches, 2021)
That red light in the darkness
Book Review: Alan Buckley reviews The Kids by Hannah Lowe (Bloodaxe, 2021)
When you are being eaten by vultures they will leave your face alone
Hilary Menos reviews Jongleur by Rennie Parker (Shoestring, 2021)
This well-mannered patch of green, flecked with red
Carl Tomlinson reviews This Fruiting Body by Caleb Parkin (Nine Arches, 2021)
Do girls not have fangs?
Bruno Cooke reviews The Book of Bad Betties (Bad Betty, 2021) edited by Vanessa Kisuule and Anja Konig
Let trigons be trigons
Mat Riches reviews The Windmill Proof by Stephen Payne (HappenStance, 2021)
Go long
Hilary Menos reviews Notes on the Sonnets by Luke Kennard (Penned in the Margins, 2021), winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2021
I was nothing but a heretic cormorant
Rory Waterman reviews The European Eel by Steve Ely (Longbarrow, 2021)