Mat Riches

Part of the text "Collecting the Data" in red serif font on a turquoise background.

Each brief puncture of the incoming tide

Isabelle Thompson reviews Collecting the Data by Mat Riches (Red Squirrel Press, 2023)

A photograph showing an open hand with some dried flowers on it. The background is pink

Trains necklacing the night

Mat Riches reviews Climacteric by Jo Bratten (Fly On The Wall Press, 2022)

What looks like an acrylic painting of vines, berries and white flowers.

You make a mirrorball out of the rain

Mat Riches reviews Glut by Ramona Herdman (Nine Arches, 2022)

Naive painting of the backs of two people sitting on a wall, one has a red headscarf and orange skirt, one is dressed in black

The cruelty and largesse of high water

Mat Riches reviews Summer / Break by Richie McCaffery (Shoestring, 2022)

Part of a painting of an Old Testament scene where white-bearded patriarch Methuselah has instructed Noah to open a prophetic scroll which foretells the flood sent by God. Circling ravens add to the sense of foreboding, while antediluvian revellers continue their dancing in the middle distance, oblivious of the devastation to come.

The end of history?

Mat Riches reviews You have no normal country to return to by Tom Sastry (Nine Arches, 2022)

Three pamphlet covers arranged in a fan shape, one has a health worker in PPE on a blue background, one is yellow with black text running down the centre of the page and one is half white with purple text , the other half has what may be a woodcut in what may be ethnic patterns.

Three pamphlets: Martin Figura, Leontia Flynn and Naush Sabah

Khadija Rouf reviews My Name is Mercy by Martin Figura (Fair Acre, 2021), Hilary Menos reviews Nina Simone is Singing by Leontia Flynn (Mariscat Press, 2021), and Mat Riches reviews Litanies by Naush Sabah (Guillemot, 2021)

Three pamphlet covers arranged in a fan shape, one has a photograph of a river crossing sand to the sea, one has what looks like an abstract pattern of leaves in shades of brown and one is very pale green with block text in a kind of marbled pattern.

Three pamphlets: Matthew Hollis, Holly Singlehurst and Gboyega Odubanjo

Steven Lovatt reviews Leaves by Matthew Hollis, Mat Riches reviews The Sea Turned Thick as Honey by Holly Singlehurst, and Hilary Menos reviews Aunty Uncle Poems by Gboyega Odubanjo

Phantom Settlements

by Mat Riches — She would no doubt accuse me of esquivalience / if I didn’t tell you about the world famous / fountain designer, Lillian Mountweazel. Despite / her death in an explosion while taking pictures

Black and white image showing mathematical drawings and equations.

Let trigons be trigons

Mat Riches reviews The Windmill Proof by Stephen Payne (HappenStance, 2021)

Three book covers. One with six colourful graphics including a bear and a blow up flamingo, one pink sparkle with a chrome compact mirror and one green with black and dark green text

Three pamphlets: Richie McCaffery, Phoebe Stuckes and Julia Bird

Mat Riches reviews Coping Stones by Richie McCaffery, Emma Simon reviews The One Girl Gremlin by Phoebe Stuckes and Hilary Menos reviews is, thinks Pearl by Julia Bird

Front cover of book 'When I Think of my Body as a Horse' by Wendy Pratt, showing a horse with musculature visible

Body, you are beautiful, you are beautiful

Mat Riches reviews When I Think of my Body as a Horse by Wendy Pratt (Smith|Doorstop, 2021)

Visions of Juana

Mat Riches reviews Citadel by Martha Sprackland (Liverpool University Press, 2020)