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Purple cover with yellowish feathers drawn on. bit like wallpaper. There is an ostrich, and the book title.

Dunna wittle, it’ll be reet

Isabelle Thompson reviews Ostriches: Ten Poems about My Dad by Jeanette Burton (Candlestick Press, 2024)

Continue readingDunna wittle, it’ll be reet
The title of the book in seraph font on a an apricot background. Could do better.

In the ‘quiet coach’

Annie Fisher reviews Surprising the Misses McRuvie by Eleanor Livingstone (Red Squirrel Press, 2023)

Continue readingIn the ‘quiet coach’
Photograph of two people walking on the beach at low tide. A shadowy coaster is seen in the background. This may or may not be relevant.

There now

D. A. Prince reviews This is You, Dear Stranger by Paula Jennings (Red Squirrel Press, 2024)

Continue readingThere now
Black background with geometric shapes in orange, mostly triangles.

Nothing left to carve but the eye

Helena Nelson reviews Exposure by Eric Yip (Ignition Press, 2024)

Continue readingNothing left to carve but the eye
Two book covers, one yellow, one green.

A commitment to honour women

Khadija Rouf reviews A Coalition of Cheetahs by Doreen Gurrey and Spin by Laurie Bolger

Continue readingA commitment to honour women
Image of a white skull on a black background. The skull has a pink flower in the right eye socket.

Say I was born in peacetime

Annie Fisher reviews Ruin, Blossom by John Burnside (Cape, 2024)

Continue readingSay I was born in peacetime
Woodcut showing a woman holding a baby.

Oh tears and blood

Hilary Menos reviews The Snow Globe by Jenny Pagdin (Nine Arches, 2024)

Continue readingOh tears and blood
Section from a painting showing pair of well worn leather boots, hobnails on the soles.

Sequins stay sequins

D. A. Prince reviews The Asking: New and Selected Poems by Jane Hirshfield (Bloodaxe, 2024)

Continue readingSequins stay sequins
Close up photograph of a buttercup flower, blurred water is behind.

Alert, electric, alive

Maggie Mackay reviews A Change in the Air by Jane Clarke (Bloodaxe, 2023)

Continue readingAlert, electric, alive
A blurry image that shows the sky in a light lilac hue. There are brown buildings at the bottom and three birds fly in from the right.

Across the border

Isabelle Thompson reviews Come Here to This Gate by Rory Waterman (Carcanet, 2024)

Continue readingAcross the border
Section of what looks like a red tapestry showing a woman a unicorn and a fruit tree. the woman is sitting and the unicorn is resting its front hooves on the woman's leg. The tree remains impassive.

Embroidering a priest

Carl Tomlinson reviews Eleanor Among The Saints by Rachel Mann (Carcanet, 2024)

Continue readingEmbroidering a priest
Two green arrows show road directions and the letters A34 are shown in yellow.

What clings to its underside

Stephen Payne reviews House on the A34 by Philip Hancock (CB Editions, 2023)

Continue readingWhat clings to its underside
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