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Holiday in Barlovia

Book Review: Matthew Paul reviews A Land Between Borders by Mike Barlow (Templar Poetry, 2023)

My oddly capable body

Book Review: Isabelle Thompson reviews The Department of Work and Pensions Assesses a Jade Fish by Nuala Watt (Blue Diode, 2024)

The little Englands of my grief

Book Review: Hilary Menos reviews Contraflow: Lines of Englishness 1922–2022, selected by John Greening & Kevin Gardner (Renard, 2023)

Flashes of brightwork

Book Review: Victoria Moul reviews Something, I Forget by Angela Leighton (Carcanet, 2023)

Everything so insistently next to everything else

Book Review: Helena Nelson tries a different way of reviewing Absence by Ali Lewis (Cheerio, 2024)

All the bridges are down

Book Review: Carl Tomlinson reviews Between A Drowning Man by Martyn Crucefix (Salt, 2023)

This ritual of witness and professionalism

Book Review: D.A. Prince reviews The Sessions by Jonathan Totman (Pindrop Press, 2023)

The man will carry this void

Book Review: Rory Waterman reviews Missing Person by Nicholas Hogg, (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)

We have an opportunity to listen 

Book Review: Maggie Mackay reviews High Nowhere by Jean Atkin (Indigo Dreams, 2023)

The Leeds Mummy abandons his chariot

Pamphlet Review: Tim Murphy reviews A to Z of Superstitions by Ian Harker (Yaffle Press, 2023)

The dull click-clink of gold against formica

Book Review: Isabelle Thompson reviews I Think We’re Alone Now by Abigail Parry (Bloodaxe Books, 2023)

The Heavyweight Champion of the World

Book Review: Hilary Menos reviews Many Professional Wrestlers Never Retire by Dane Holt (The Lifeboat, 2023)
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