Pamphlet Reviews

A predominantly black and white old photograph of an oldish woman standing if front of a stone house, arms akimbo. She is dressed in black and wearing a black bonnet-like hat. Her apron is in colour and embroidered with large primitive flower shapes.

Ce n’est pas une métaphore

Hilary Menos reviews Our Lady of Tyres / Notre dame des pneus by Claire Trévien, translated from English to French by Marie Lando (Broken Sleep Books, 2022)

A black background with a red brush stroke image that looks like a fox. The image is red and is surrounded by white text with the words THE RAKE in block capitals.

Biscuit, olive branch, small origami frog

Jane Routh reviews The Rake by Tristran Fane Saunders (New Poets List, The Poetry Business, 2022)

Images from the three pamphlet covers, mostly grayscale. Three are some photographed high rise buildings, a close up of a black leather jacket and a drawing of what looks like a figure in a maze

Three Live Canon winners

Emma Simon reviews pamphlets by Aileen La Tourette, Elena Croitoru and Mehmet Izbudak, winners of the Live Canon Pamphlet Competition 2021

A paper cutout of the front steps to Steven Spender's house. It is a blue townhouse and stone steps lead to the front door. Leaves are on the ground, giving an autumnal air.

A single umbrella is enough to start a revolution

Matthew Stewart reviews The Storm in the Piano by Christopher James (Maytree Press, 2022),

An old map of Limehouse in London, the colour is predominantly blue

Pulled into focus through my mind’s binoculars

D A Prince reviews Old Friends by Hannah Lowe (Hercules Editions, 2022)

A background of the stock exchange with the words "The economist can tell you about your bank balance, but the poet has a window into your soul" superimposed

Like worms on the corruption in which they are bred

Hilary Menos reviews The Poets’ Guide to Economics by John Ramsden (Pallas Athene, 2022)

Blue Chinese wallpaper showing a watercolour design with trees and small birds. There are small flowers too.

If the wallpaper could speak

D A Prince reviews Rock, Bird, Butterfly by Hannah Lowe (Hercules Editions, 2022)

three book covers in a fan shape, one has blue and grey vertical stripes, one has a pattern of hexagonal cells a bit like a hive with a black and white bee on it, one is green with a painting of a mother and daughter

Three pamphlets: Erica Gillingham, Stephen Payne and Khadija Rouf

Rachael Matthews reviews The Human Body is a Hive by Erica Gillingham, Richie McCaffery reviews The Wax Argument by Steven Payne, and Bruno Cooke reviews House Work by Khadija Rouf

The three pamphlet covers, Sarah's is white with a green diagonal flash, Judi's has the title in a blue oval on a background pencil drawing of a river and rocks and Hugo's is the shadow of banister railings non a light brown background.

Three pamphlets: Sarah Mnatzaganian, Judi Sutherland and Hugo Williams

Matthew Paul reviews Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter by Sarah Mnatzaganian, Maggie Mackay reviews Following Teisa by Judi Sutherland and Hilary Menos reviews Badlands by Hugo Williams

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)

a black handprint on a white background with a yellow stripe down the left hand side

Prizes prised from the perished

Bruno Cooke reviews Please Do Not Touch by Casey Bailey (Burning Eye, 2021)

Four black and white head shots of the poets in this article arranged in a grid

Four thrilling new worlds

Maggie Mackay looks at the four winning pamphlets of The Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition 2021