Pamphlet Reviews

Dark red line drawing on light red paper. It shows a small house. A ladder protrudes from an upstairs window and heads upwards.

As if to map the hidden history

Isabelle Thompson reviews Cargo by Charlotte Gann (Mariscat Press, 2023)

Montage showing three book covers. They are similar – each has a black background with a number of different coloured triangles superimposed. The chaps at Ignition press like triangles, I guess. Who am I to judge?

Mixed feelings about gravity

Isabelle Thompson reviews three new pamphlets from ignitionpress

A painting on canvas showing a large yellow blob and some smaller blobs (also yellow) on a purple-blue background.

You are not a fixed star in anybody’s sky

Khadija Rouf reviews Into the Same Sound Twice by Zakia Carpenter-Hall (Seren, 2023)

Hares cunningly disguised as squiggles. On a grey background.

The story of herself

Hilary Menos reviews nine by David Harsent (Guillemot Press, 2023)

Close up of large lettering on an orange background, the lettering contains a photograph showing what looks like a shoreline.

What’s left at the end of the world

Maggie Mackay reviews Sensitive to Temperature by Serena Alagappan (Smith|Doorstop Books, 2023)

Painting of a man with a pipe looking into an oval mirror.

Paradise of garagistes

Chris Edgoose reviews Impasse: for Jules Maigret by Sean O’Brien (Hercules Editions, 2023)

A textured image showing a dark red line drawing on a white and red background. The drawing shows what looks like an open hand holding maybe small cruciform shaped flowers in its palm.

How else were you to mend lineage?

Isabelle Thompson reviews Ixora by Prerana Kumar (Guillemot Press, 2023)

Abstract image showing a black circle on a white background containing blue, orange and red splodges. Some spill over the page outside the circle. Landsick? Maybe.

Our version of the sea not quite knowing how to touch the land

Mat Riches reviews Landsick by Genevieve Carver (Broken Sleep Books, 2023)

A pencil sketch, grey on a cream background. Looks like the branches of a tree.

Letters to Linda

Hilary Menos responds to Letters to Katłįà by Linda France, winner of the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year prize 2022-2023,

The background is waves of pink and light blue. On top is a line drawing showing hands holding a heart shape with the word 'cursed' on it.

recently i’ve been daydreaming of pete davidson

Mat Riches reviews Poems For Pete Davidson by Ella Sadie Guthrie (Broken Sleep, 2022)

Section of book cover, red background with parts of letters in black and white.

Limos : acceptance, smirom : peace

Maggie Mackay reviews Didicoy by Karen Downs-Barton (Smith|Doorstop Books, 2023)

Two book covers, one green, one blue. Sigh.

Two pamphlets that sing together

Isabelle Thompson reviews I Hate to Be the One to Tell You This by Zoë Walkington (Smith|Doorstop, 2023) and Past Tense Future Imperfect by Jon Miller (Smith|Doorstop, 2023)