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Three book covers. One with six colourful graphics including a bear and a blow up flamingo, one pink sparkle with a chrome compact mirror and one green with black and dark green text

Three pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird

Mat Riches reviews Coping Stones by Richie McCaffery, Emma Simon reviews The One Girl Gremlin by Phoebe Stuckes and Hilary Menos reviews is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird

Continue readingThree pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird
The Words Cheryl's Destinies in slightly curly script are seen twice, a white version reflecting a pink version both on a black background.

Like a bride with a posy of stout

Steven Lovatt reviews Cheryl’s Destinies by Stephen Sexton (Penguin, 2021)

Continue readingLike a bride with a posy of stout
a watercolour with multicoloured ribbons with arrow shaped ends swirling on a blue textured background. There are some rectangle frames at a variety of angles.

The thing itself

Charlotte Gann reviews When the Swimming Pool Fell in the Sea by Carole Coates (Shoestring, 2021)

Continue readingThe thing itself
A rust red concrete slab wall with words "The Dereliction" written in stencil font.

Traces

Chris Edgoose reviews The Dereliction by Liz Berry and Tom Hicks (Hercules Editions, 2021)

Continue readingTraces
The word C+nto in white text on a gold background, underneath is the text "& othered poems" in black. Both fonts are serif.

Her fear is a dress she can no longer fit into

Bruno Cooke reviews C+nto: & Othered Poems by Joelle Taylor (Saqi Books, 2021)

Continue readingHer fear is a dress she can no longer fit into
Silhouette of a woman's face looking to the right of the image, her features are obscured be autumnal trees superimposed on the silhouette

But what are these woods anyway?

Book Review: Fiona Moore reviews Thinking with Trees by Jason Allen-Paisant (Carcanet, 2021)

Continue readingBut what are these woods anyway?
Selima Hill wearing a scarf around her neck and a headscarf/bandanna type of thing. It looks good.

Distracted by eyelashes

Steven Lovatt reviews Men Who Feed Pigeons by Selima Hill (Bloodaxe, 2021)

Continue readingDistracted by eyelashes
Two books with mostly white covers. one cover has a blackened rib, the other a small picture of a blue open door

Essential poetry from Wayleave Press

Richie McCaffery reviews two Wayleave Press pamphlets — Rib by Sharon Black and After by Jane Routh

Continue readingEssential poetry from Wayleave Press
Black and white image showing agricultural machinery on a large field with a dark brooding sky, the image has been rotated 90 degrees.

Hearts pressed with aspic

Emma Simon reviews Field Requiem by Sheri Benning (Carcanet, 2021)

Continue readingHearts pressed with aspic
Slug by Hollie McNish, orange text on a purple background

Slug snog

Bruno Cooke reviews Slug by Hollie McNish (Little, Brown, 2021)

Continue readingSlug snog
Photo of a meat market porter at work

The page my barrow and my charge the word

Book Review: Stephen Payne reviews The Resurrectionists by John Challis (Bloodaxe, 2021)

Continue readingThe page my barrow and my charge the word
Front cover of Lyonesse by Penny Shuttle. A watercolour of the sea and cliffs depicting many creatures underwater and a long serpentine body emerging with a female human head.

Looking for the ones who will never be found

Hilary Menos reviews Lyonesse by Penny Shuttle (Bloodaxe, 2021)

Continue readingLooking for the ones who will never be found
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