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Montage showing three book covers. They are similar – each has a black background with a number of different coloured triangles superimposed. The chaps at Ignition press like triangles, I guess. Who am I to judge?

Mixed feelings about gravity

Isabelle Thompson reviews three new pamphlets from ignitionpress

Continue readingMixed feelings about gravity
A painting on canvas showing a large yellow blob and some smaller blobs (also yellow) on a purple-blue background.

You are not a fixed star in anybody’s sky

Khadija Rouf reviews Into the Same Sound Twice by Zakia Carpenter-Hall (Seren, 2023)

Continue readingYou are not a fixed star in anybody’s sky
The blue violinist by Marc Chagall showing aviolinist dressed in blue:green on a blue background. His cheeks are red and he has a white bird on his shoulder.

Writing this warring world

Jeremy Wikeley reviews Vevel’s Violin by Jacqueline Saphra (Nine Arches Press, 2023)

Continue readingWriting this warring world
Section from a book cover. The background is purple and some block capital letters in pink , yellow, green and white are arranged in a uniform block pattern.

Time to swim

Richie McCaffery reviews Hard Drive by Paul Stephenson (Carcanet, 2023)

Continue readingTime to swim
Hares cunningly disguised as squiggles. On a grey background.

The story of herself

Hilary Menos reviews nine by David Harsent (Guillemot Press, 2023)

Continue readingThe story of herself
Close up of large lettering on an orange background, the lettering contains a photograph showing what looks like a shoreline.

What’s left at the end of the world

Maggie Mackay reviews Sensitive to Temperature by Serena Alagappan (Smith|Doorstop Books, 2023)

Continue readingWhat’s left at the end of the world
Painting of a man with a pipe looking into an oval mirror.

Paradise of garagistes

Chris Edgoose reviews Impasse: for Jules Maigret by Sean O’Brien (Hercules Editions, 2023)

Continue readingParadise of garagistes
Pieces of text in red and gold on a dark blue book cover.

Waves of lavender shadow growing darker in their blueness

Alan Buckley reviews Up Late by Nick Laird (Faber, 2023)

Continue readingWaves of lavender shadow growing darker in their blueness
Painting in bright colours showing a copse of trees.

The forest’s edge

Charlotte Gann reviews Beyond the Gate by Clare Best (Worple Press, 2023)

Continue readingThe forest’s edge
A yellow squiggle on a greyish background. Well I suppose, given the subject matter, it could be a mathematical symbol. But if you just think squiggle you'll probably be closer.

They cannot subtract me

Stephen Payne reviews Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science by Jessy Randall (Goldsmiths Press, 2022)

Continue readingThey cannot subtract me
Whimsical illustration showing a hill with roads twisting between rocks and a castle atop.

Something honeylike that makes me lean in closer

D.A. Prince reviews Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders (Carcanet, 2023)

Continue readingSomething honeylike that makes me lean in closer
Abstract. A red splodge on a black splurge on a yellow squidge.

* […] Mol is an imaginary friend, the latest fad everyone wants to get their hands on [go to page 18]

Isabelle Thompson reviews Making Sense by Dide (Verve Poetry, 2023)

Continue reading* […] Mol is an imaginary friend, the latest fad everyone wants to get their hands on [go to page 18]
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