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Steven Lovatt

Concentrated radiance

Steven Lovatt reviews Ceremony for the Nameless by Theresa Lola (Penguin, 2024)

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Artwork in a graphic style showing the back of a man walking towards a tall building with many windows. The sky appears to be on fire.

That day when we can watch it fall

Steven Lovatt reviews Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle by Katy Evans-Bush (CB Editions, 2024)

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What looks like an old, hand-drawn parchment map. There are lots of words written – 'Iwerddon' and 'Byzantium' are two of them.

Cofiwch Dryweryn!

Steven Lovatt reviews Wild Cherry by Nigel Jenkins (Parthian Books, 2023)

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Photograph a woman standing in sand with a coat on. She has left footprints.

Our small Homeric lives

Steven Lovatt reviews Dead Letters by Carole Coates (Shoestring, 2023)

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Image from a book illustrating the dialect poem 'The Lion and Albert' showing four people in Edwardian dress discussing something. The picture is titled 'The manager had to be sent for.'

Ah, bostid is the golden bowel!

Steven Lovatt on dialect poetry

Continue readingAh, bostid is the golden bowel!
Mostly orange and orange tinted cover showing what looks like a woman's face half hidden by something that appears to be a vertical semi transparent column with thin diagonal white stripes on it.

Monsoon night-song

Steven Lovatt reviews Mother of Flip-Flops by Mukahang Limbu (Out-Spoken Press, 2022)

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Appears to be a watercolour painting in a block graphic style representing sea in the foreground and a sandy seashore behind. The whole thing has a slightly swirly pattern visible. A bit like the circle marks on an artex ceiling, but more artistic.

The wonders this lens can do!

Steven Lovatt reviews Ferenc Juhász: Selected Poems translated by David Wevill (Shearsman, 2022)

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Paul Muldoon standing in front of a grey wall looking 'ard. He has grey curly hair and glasses, and he is wearing a brown tweed jacket and tie and a dark shirt.

With a pink and a pink and a pinkie-pick

Unpack a Poem: Steven Lovatt on 'The Loaf' by Paul Muldoon

Continue readingWith a pink and a pink and a pinkie-pick
An image taken from the book cover, Its shows a bit the the name Emily in yellow text and the first six letters of the word "unexhausted" in blue text. The background is shocking pink

Strung like an archer’s bow

Steven Lovatt reviews Unexhausted Time by Emily Berry (Faber, 2022)

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Black shapes on a bright pink/purple background. On the shapes the word amino is written in vertical fragments "AM" "N" "IO" "N"

Dealing in shards

Steven Lovatt reviews Amnion by Stephanie Sy-Quia (Granta, 2021)

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What does Steven Lovatt say?

How did I get into poetry? Externally, having librarians for parents helped. Temperamentally it’s more complicated ...

Continue readingWhat does Steven Lovatt say?
Three pamphlet covers arranged in a fan shape, one has a photograph of a river crossing sand to the sea, one has what looks like an abstract pattern of leaves in shades of brown and one is very pale green with block text in a kind of marbled pattern.

Three pamphlets: Matthew Hollis, Holly Singlehurst and Gboyega Odubanjo

Steven Lovatt reviews Leaves by Matthew Hollis, Mat Riches reviews The Sea Turned Thick as Honey by Holly Singlehurst, and Hilary Menos reviews Aunty Uncle Poems by Gboyega Odubanjo

Continue readingThree pamphlets: Matthew Hollis, Holly Singlehurst and Gboyega Odubanjo
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