Regal, speared, violent
Michael Grieve reviews Rapture’s Road by Seán Hewitt (Penguin Books, 2024)
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Alive as the bay tree
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How wholly are we to be pressed?
Will Snelling reviews God Complex by Rachael Allen (Faber, 2024)
Pangolins and Plainsong
Annie Fisher reviews Words of Mercury by Alasdair Paterson (Shearsman Books, 2024)
I eat clean but train dirty. That’s perfection.
D. A. Prince reviews Taking Liberties by Leontia Flynn (Cape, 2024)
The Ark wasn’t always a toy
Karen Smith reviews Noah by Penelope Shuttle (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)
Cofiwch Dryweryn!
Steven Lovatt reviews Wild Cherry by Nigel Jenkins (Parthian Books, 2023)
Let poems be the windows, not the views
Helena Nelson reviews Divisible by Itself and One by Kae Tempest (Picador, 2023)
Soldier, astronaut, photographer, accountant … poet
Annie Fisher reviews The Remaining Men by Martin Figura (Cinnamon Press, 2024)
Holiday in Barlovia
Matthew Paul reviews A Land Between Borders by Mike Barlow (Templar Poetry, 2023)
My oddly capable body
Isabelle Thompson reviews The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish by Nuala Watt (Blue Diode, 2024)
The little Englands of my grief
Hilary Menos reviews Contraflow: Lines of Englishness 1922–2022, selected by John Greening & Kevin Gardner (Renard, 2023)