Book Reviews
How wholly are we to be pressed?
Will Snelling reviews God Complex by Rachael Allen (Faber, 2024)
Pangolins and Plainsong
Annie Fisher reviews Words of Mercury by Alasdair Paterson (Shearsman Books, 2024)
A voice from the silence
Jane Routh reviews The Silence by Gillian Clarke (Carcanet, 2024)
I eat clean but train dirty. That’s perfection.
D. A. Prince reviews Taking Liberties by Leontia Flynn (Cape, 2024)
Cofiwch Dryweryn!
Steven Lovatt reviews Wild Cherry by Nigel Jenkins (Parthian Books, 2023)
Let poems be the windows, not the views
Helena Nelson reviews Divisible by Itself and One by Kae Tempest (Picador, 2023)
Soldier, astronaut, photographer, accountant … poet
Annie Fisher reviews The Remaining Men by Martin Figura (Cinnamon Press, 2024)
My oddly capable body
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
Hilary Menos reviews Contraflow: Lines of Englishness 1922–2022, selected by John Greening & Kevin Gardner (Renard, 2023)
Flashes of brightwork
Victoria Moul reviews Something, I Forget by Angela Leighton (Carcanet, 2023)
Everything so insistently next to everything else
Helena Nelson mind-maps Absence by Ali Lewis (Cheerio, 2024)