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Illustration showing a stylised dandelion head with the seeds blowing around. A red ribbon curls across the page.

A tinderbox to light all the world’s wanting

Rachael Matthews reviews The Home Child by Liz Berry (Chatto & Windus, 2023)

Continue readingA tinderbox to light all the world’s wanting
Ink line drawing on crumpled cartridge paper. A round face looks almost like a tribal mask with an open mouth and a block bad around and across the eyes (though we can still see the eyes). The nose is a triangle.

No one wears Brooches anymore

Hilary Menos reviews Savage Tales by Tara Bergin (Carcanet, 2022

Continue readingNo one wears Brooches anymore
Section of a book cover. The background is blue and parts of the letters A and F are shown in a bold yellow font.

To hear their voice bounce off the shape of things

Rory Waterman reviews This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings (Carcanet, 2022)

Continue readingTo hear their voice bounce off the shape of things
A textured image showing a dark red line drawing on a white and red background. The drawing shows what looks like an open hand holding maybe small cruciform shaped flowers in its palm.

How else were you to mend lineage?

Isabelle Thompson reviews Ixora by Prerana Kumar (Guillemot Press, 2023)

Continue readingHow else were you to mend lineage?
Part of a painting showing the inside of a house and a long corridor. The lighting suggests it could be evening.

A basic beginning in tegnsprog

Carl Tomlinson reviews The House of the Interpreter by Lisa Kelly (Carcanet, 2023)

Continue readingA basic beginning in tegnsprog
Pen and ink slightly washed out picture of a man's face.

The weight of history

Matthew Paul reviews Selected Poems 1983–2023 by Ian Parks (Calder Valley Poetry, 2023)

Continue readingThe weight of history
A study in blue. It looks like a close up of large heads of coral in an eerie blue light.

Unfashionable almost to the point of provocation

Victoria Moul reviews Arctic Elegies by Peter Davidson (Carcanet, 2022)

Continue readingUnfashionable almost to the point of provocation
Print (an old one by the, look of it) showing a large (for 'large' read enormous) snail with much smaller people wearing hats trying to subdue it with ropes. Some policemen wave sticks and seem to be engaged in a dance ... but maybe it's more sinister! Who knows?

Working off the movement of the earth in space

D.A. Prince reviews Dynamo by Luke Samuel Yates (The Poetry Business, 2023)

Continue readingWorking off the movement of the earth in space
A pencil sketch, grey on a cream background. Looks like the branches of a tree.

Letters to Linda

Hilary Menos responds to Letters to Katłįà by Linda France, winner of the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year prize 2022-2023,

Continue readingLetters to Linda
Section of book cover. Here we have another in our endless series of abstract art poetry book covers. This is probably from a painting. splashes of bright colours and faded splurges in muted shades blend together as a background whilst bold horizontal slashes of red paint dominate the foreground.

All the blues and greens

Isabelle Thompson reviews Say It With Me by Vanessa Lampert (Seren, 2023)

Continue readingAll the blues and greens
Pastel shades, probably watercolour, showing a bedroom interior with an open window and a traditional iron bedstead.

These moments, rare and marvellous

Jane Routh reviews The Guest Room by Diana Hendry (Worple Press, 2022)

Continue readingThese moments, rare and marvellous
Close up of a medlar tree showing green leaves and purple fruit.

A Community Reimagined

Chris Edgoose reviews Medlars by Geraldine Clarkson (Shearsman, 2023)

Continue readingA Community Reimagined
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