Richie McCaffery

Black and white detail from a woodcut showing skeletons marching and clambering, some playing horns.

Limited only by things unseen

Richie McCaffery reviews Hex and Other Poems by Shane McCrae (Bad Betty, 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)

A woman's chest, her hands are beginning to unbutton her white top.

Luve’s arcane delirium

Richie McCaffery reviews The Mouth of Eulalie by Annie Brechin (Blue Diode, 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

Close up of Elizabeth Burns face, her head is tilted and she is wearing oval glasses

Parcels of light

Richie McCaffery looks at the poetry of Elizabeth Burns

by Richie McCaffery — She left me at the height of nesting season, / birds building as I was dismantling my home. // She left me as saplings we’d planted were fruiting, / their berries tart as the metal of front door keys

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

Two books with mostly white covers. one cover has a blackened rib, the other a small picture of a blue open door

Essential poetry from Wayleave Press

Richie McCaffery reviews two Wayleave Press pamphlets — Rib by Sharon Black and After by Jane Routh

Three pamphlets arranged in a loose fan shape. 'Diary of a Divorce' shows a woman standing in a doorway, 'the hispering' features an abstract figure that looks a bit like an upside down doll and 'Crucifox' has an arresting yellow graphic of a fox head with a direct gaze

Three pamphlets: S. D. Curtis, Sarah Hymas and Geraldine Clarkson

Richie McCaffery reviews Diary of a Divorce by S. D. Curtis, Carla Scarano D'Antonio reviews the hispering by Sarah Hymas, and Hilary Menos reviews Crucifox by Geraldine Clarkson

part of the cover of the book The Slowing Ride by Will Stone; looks like broken glazed tiles in turquoise and green and grey, there's a bit of a female face in the middle but mostly it's just cracked and weird

Then the great wheel began to turn

Richie McCaffery reviews The Slowing Ride by Will Stone (Shearsman, 2020)

Book cover The Coming-Down Time by Robert Selby showing two rustic types planting a tree

An England both fertile and funereal

Richie McCafferey reviews The Coming-Down Time by Robert Selby (Shoestring, 2020)