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Abstract black lines on a grey background. Some go up in a diagonal way describing, I dunno, possibly an upside down ice cream cone. Some curve upwards like branches of an abstract tree. Kinda jazzy man.

Flashes of brightwork

Victoria Moul reviews Something, I Forget by Angela Leighton (Carcanet, 2023)

Continue readingFlashes of brightwork
Coloured drawing showing the mind map process. There is a small picture of a woman's head in the centre and lines of text on various colours running all over the page a little like the branches of a tree.

Everything so insistently next to everything else

Helena Nelson mind-maps Absence by Ali Lewis (Cheerio, 2024)

Continue readingEverything so insistently next to everything else
Photograph of a long shed-like house on iron stilts.

All the bridges are down

Carl Tomlinson reviews Between A Drowning Man by Martyn Crucefix (Salt, 2023)

Continue readingAll the bridges are down
Part of a slightly abstract painting showing (I think) a mirror (or window), a blue door, and some red vertical lines that could be curtains ... or a draped scarf ... or something.

This ritual of witness and professionalism

D.A. Prince reviews The Sessions by Jonathan Totman (Pindrop Press, 2023)

Continue readingThis ritual of witness and professionalism
Letters from the book title arranged vertically in three columns on a grey-green background. The letters are coloured in patterns go green and white that seem to suggest leaves, or trees. Yeah, I dunno either.

The man will carry this void

Rory Waterman reviews Missing Person by Nicholas Hogg (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)

Continue readingThe man will carry this void
A waterfall on a foggy mountainside. It's high, and the middle of ... well, you get it.

We have an opportunity to listen 

Maggie Mackay reviews High Nowhere by Jean Atkin (Indigo Dreams, 2023)

Continue readingWe have an opportunity to listen 
Close up of a doorknocker on a large old wooden door. The knocker is metal and shows a pig or boar with a ring in its mouth.

The Leeds Mummy abandons his chariot

Tim Murphy reviews A to Z of Superstitions by Ian Harker (Yaffle Press, 2023)

Continue readingThe Leeds Mummy abandons his chariot
The words MX Simp on a beige background.

Resisting the shadows

Clare Best reviews MX SIMP by Kate Hendry (Mariscat Press, 2023)

Continue readingResisting the shadows
A black and white beetle seen from above on white textured paper.

The dull click-clink of gold against formica

Isabelle Thompson reviews I Think We’re Alone Now by Abigail Parry (Bloodaxe Books, 2023)

Continue readingThe dull click-clink of gold against formica
Part of the words "Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire" in white italic script font on a purple background.

The Heavyweight Champion of the World

Hilary Menos reviews Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire by Dane Holt (The Lifeboat, 2023)

Continue readingThe Heavyweight Champion of the World
Section from the book cover. An abstract image that could be a sun and yellow sand, but ... you know.

Form it from loosestrife, form it remorselessly

Stephen Payne reviews Rope of Sand by Fiona Larkin (Pindrop Press, 2023)

Continue readingForm it from loosestrife, form it remorselessly
A photograph of a small house, painted half blue and half yellow. The porch is red.

If Tarring Neville was not a village but a procedure

Matthew Paul reviews Instead of an Alibi by Geoff Hattersley (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)

Continue readingIf Tarring Neville was not a village but a procedure
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