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Carl Tomlinson

Partial text of the words 'England's Green'. The text is light green serif font on a dark green background. That's imaginative.

Candle flowered kingdoms around the Black Sea

Carl Tomlinson reviews England's Green by Zaffar Kunial (Faber, 2022)
A fifties-style graphic showing the rocky surface of a planet with coloured moons and asteroids. The words 'Space Baby' are superimposed in white.

Maybe it’s already gone supernova

Carl Tomlinson reviews Space Baby by Suzannah Evans (Nine Arches, 2022)
A clump of light green moss on a black background

Mosses and dunlins, lichens and curlew, light and water

Carl Tomlinson reviews what is near by Kay Syrad (Cinnamon, 2021)
Slightly abstract painting in block colours, Yellow, beige, green, grey, sky blue, representing a building, the sky with a sun or a moon and a single window. oh, and some bricks

Whichever life we live, it’s the other calls

Carl Tomlinson reviews Hotel Anonymous by Mike Barlow (Pindrop, 2021)
collage art incorporating a mans back, a woman's leg, various plants, a lobster claw , a turtle shell and a fly agaric mushroom. All on a pale blue background.

This well-mannered patch of green, flecked with red

Carl Tomlinson reviews This Fruiting Body by Caleb Parkin (Nine Arches, 2021)

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