Book Reviews

Writing this warring world
Jeremy Wikeley reviews Vevel’s Violin by Jacqueline Saphra (Nine Arches Press, 2023)

Time to swim
Richie McCaffery reviews Hard Drive by Paul Stephenson (Carcanet, 2023)

Waves of lavender shadow growing darker in their blueness
Alan Buckley reviews Up Late by Nick Laird (Faber, 2023)

The forest’s edge
Charlotte Gann reviews Beyond the Gate by Clare Best (Worple Press, 2023)

They cannot subtract me
Stephen Payne reviews Mathematics for Ladies: Poems on Women in Science by Jessy Randall (Goldsmiths Press, 2022)

Something honeylike that makes me lean in closer
D.A. Prince reviews Before We Go Any Further by Tristram Fane Saunders (Carcanet, 2023)

* […] Mol is an imaginary friend, the latest fad everyone wants to get their hands on [go to page 18]
Isabelle Thompson reviews Making Sense by Dide (Verve Poetry, 2023)

A tinderbox to light all the world’s wanting
Rachael Matthews reviews The Home Child by Liz Berry (Chatto & Windus, 2023)

No one wears Brooches anymore
Hilary Menos reviews Savage Tales by Tara Bergin (Carcanet, 2022

To hear their voice bounce off the shape of things
Rory Waterman reviews This Afterlife: Selected Poems by A. E. Stallings (Carcanet, 2022)

A basic beginning in tegnsprog
Carl Tomlinson reviews The House of the Interpreter by Lisa Kelly (Carcanet, 2023)

The weight of history
Matthew Paul reviews Selected Poems 1983–2023 by Ian Parks (Calder Valley Poetry, 2023)