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Richie McCaffery

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
A bold orange cover showing a line / brush outline of a male torso.

A rebozo threaded by an ancient needle

Richie McCaffery reviews At Least This I Know by Andrés N. Ordorica (404 Ink, 2022)

Continue readingA rebozo threaded by an ancient needle
This is a dark book cover (could have guessed really, "Mouth of Shadows" and all that). The image looks like the inside of a cave (think "Lord of the Rings") a light comes from above and throws a circular glow on the floor.

Murderous parrots eat souls

Richie McCaffery reviews Mouth of Shadows by Tim Murphy (SurVision Books, 2022)

Continue readingMurderous parrots eat souls
Black and white detail from a woodcut showing skeletons marching and clambering, some playing horns.

Limited only by things unseen

Richie McCaffery reviews Hex and Other Poems by Shane McCrae (Bad Betty, 2022)

Continue readingLimited only by things unseen
An open book with a colourful party blower resting on the pages. The words "Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, She should have looked after her teeth" are just about visible above it.

This barter of enthusiasm

Funny poems by Norman MacCaig, William Makepeace Thackeray and Alexander Hutchison, chosen by Chris Edgoose, D.A. Prince and Richie McCaffery

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A woman's chest, her hands are beginning to unbutton her white top.

Luve’s arcane delirium

Richie McCaffery reviews The Mouth of Eulalie by Annie Brechin (Blue Diode, 2022)

Continue readingLuve’s arcane delirium
three book covers in a fan shape, one has blue and grey vertical stripes, one has a pattern of hexagonal cells a bit like a hive with a black and white bee on it, one is green with a painting of a mother and daughter

Three pamphlets: Erica Gillingham, Stephen Payne and Khadija Rouf

Rachael Matthews reviews The Human Body is a Hive by Erica Gillingham, Richie McCaffery reviews The Wax Argument by Steven Payne, and Bruno Cooke reviews House Work by Khadija Rouf

Continue readingThree pamphlets: Erica Gillingham, Stephen Payne and Khadija Rouf

What does Richie McCaffery say?

I took a fairly predictable teenage route into poetry, discovering Dylan Thomas and falling under his spell ...

Continue readingWhat does Richie McCaffery say?
Close up of Elizabeth Burns face, her head is tilted and she is wearing oval glasses

Parcels of light

Richie McCaffery looks at the poetry of Elizabeth Burns

Continue readingParcels of light
Two books with mostly white covers. one cover has a blackened rib, the other a small picture of a blue open door

Essential poetry from Wayleave Press

Richie McCaffery reviews two Wayleave Press pamphlets — Rib by Sharon Black and After by Jane Routh

Continue readingEssential poetry from Wayleave Press
Three pamphlets arranged in a loose fan shape. 'Diary of a Divorce' shows a woman standing in a doorway, 'the hispering' features an abstract figure that looks a bit like an upside down doll and 'Crucifox' has an arresting yellow graphic of a fox head with a direct gaze

Three pamphlets: S. D. Curtis, Sarah Hymas and Geraldine Clarkson

Richie McCaffery reviews Diary of a Divorce by S. D. Curtis, Carla Scarano D'Antonio reviews the hispering by Sarah Hymas, and Hilary Menos reviews Crucifox by Geraldine Clarkson

Continue readingThree pamphlets: S. D. Curtis, Sarah Hymas and Geraldine Clarkson
part of the cover of the book The Slowing Ride by Will Stone; looks like broken glazed tiles in turquoise and green and grey, there's a bit of a female face in the middle but mostly it's just cracked and weird

Then the great wheel began to turn

Richie McCaffery reviews The Slowing Ride by Will Stone (Shearsman, 2020)

Continue readingThen the great wheel began to turn
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