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Woods, words, a sword of spells bunched up on a larch

Book Review: Maggie Mackay reviews Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands by Sarah Wimbush (Bloodaxe, 2022)

That first bright garden

Book Review: Annie Fisher reviews Rain Tree by Ruth Sharman (Templar, 2022)

Seedpearl work

Book Review: Jane Routh reviews The Language of Bees by Rae Howells (Parthian, 2022)

Dealing in shards

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

Luve’s arcane delirium

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

Glass through heat

Book Review: Jane Routh reviews Panic Response by John McCullough (Penned in the Margins, 2022)

A flower blossoming out of the hole in my face

Book Review: Khadija Rouf reviews Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire (Chatto & Windus in collaboration with Flipped Eye, 2022)

A gorgeous fluorescent yes

Book Review: Hilary Menos reviews Ephemeron by Fiona Benson (Cape, 2022)

Three pamphlets: Erica Gillingham, Stephen Payne and Khadija Rouf

Pamphlet Review: Rachael Matthews reviews The Human Body is a Hive by Erica Gillingham (Verve, 2022), Richie McCaffery reviews The Wax Argument by Stephen Payne (HappenStance, 2022) and Bruno Cooke reviews House Work by Khadija Rouf (Fair Acre, 2022)

A dark shape from the sun

Book Review: Rob A. Mackenzie reviews Dead Souls by Sam Riviere (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2021)

Mosses and dunlins, lichens and curlew, light and water

Book Review: Carl Tomlinson reviews what is near by Kay Syrad (Cinnamon, 2021)

I could have been betterer. Et-fucking-cetera

Theatre Review: Hilary Menos reviews Miracle Theatre’s Everyman, adapted by Carol Ann Duffy, at the Princess Pavillion, Falmouth
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