by Helen Ivory | Dec 5, 2019 | Reviews
Every poem born of love or hope / is a risk P.B. Hughes writes with intelligence and wit about her search for an authentic self. Girl, Falling is a pamphlet full of edgy language and varied layout that sometimes flows, sometimes disrupts– at times with...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 22, 2019 | Reviews
In this outstanding debut pamphlet, Emma Storr, medic and poet, gives us a masterclass in how to write about medicine. Equally at home writing about the personal or the professional, she shows us the experience of the patient as well as the doctor. I...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 12, 2019 | Reviews
The Unknown Civilian is a magic book. It has magic spread all through it. Antony Owen faces up to the atrocities of war and speaks on behalf of all who it sweeps away or has left behind. He questions the skewed morality war lets loose – as in anything...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 8, 2019 | Reviews
I had the luck to watch Maggie Harris launch this collection at Tongue Punch, the Tom Thumb theatre’s monthly poetry night in Margate. The lilting cadences of her not-quite-placeable accent gave a glide and a swoop to her words, sending them soaring...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 21, 2019 | Reviews
I should start by saying that, although I love being out walking in wild places, I am not especially a fan of nature poetry. I always feel that poetry rarely does justice to things of great natural beauty and that I prefer the real thing. However,...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 18, 2019 | Reviews
Konstandinos Mahoney’s debut collection fizzes with joie de vivre. Though it doesn’t flinch from the difficult, even the tragic, it’s sexy and life affirming: rich in sensual detail, acute, precisely, expressed observations all underpinned...
