Rumpa Das reviews ‘Poem Continuous’ by Bibhas Roy Chowdhury (tr. Kiriti Sengupta)

by Helen Ivory | Mar 1, 2016 | Reviews

Reading Kiriti Sengupta’s translations of Bibhas Roy Chowdhury’s poems is an exercise in self-introspection. It’s a journey that allows one to have experiences of translation, trans-literation and finally, trans-creation. For all functions of attempted translations...

Jane Monson reviews Jacqueline Saphra’s ‘If I Lay on my Back I saw Nothing but Naked Women’

by Helen Ivory | Jan 10, 2016 | Reviews

                    Jacqueline Saphra’s most recent collection with The Emma Press is the result of an inspiring and eye-catching collaboration between the author and award-winning visual artist, Mark Andrew Webber. ...

Sharmila Ray reviews ‘Healing Waters Floating Lamps’ by Kiriti Sengupta

by Helen Ivory | Nov 26, 2015 | Reviews

                    Going through Healing Waters Floating Lamps, a selection of poems by Kiriti Sengupta made me remember few lines of Tocqueville (1835): “In democracies it is by no means the case that all who...

Mike Rose-Steel reviews ‘A Fright of Jays’ by Marc Woodward

by Helen Ivory | Oct 15, 2015 | Reviews

                      Marc Woodward is a musician, which is tangible in A Fright of Jays. With controlled rhythm and sense of pacing, many of the pieces here carry you along with them. There are stories of...

Isabel Rogers reviews ‘The Department of Emotional Projections’ by NJ Hynes

by Helen Ivory | Sep 9, 2015 | Reviews

                              NJ Hynes’ debut collection won the inaugural Live Canon First Collection Prize and was published in 2014. Full disclosure: I too have been in Live Canon...

Sally Evans reviews ‘Abiding Chemistry’ by Susan Castillo Street

by Helen Ivory | Jul 1, 2015 | Reviews

                      Writers of reviews often know more about an author than can be adduced directly from the book. This is often due to the author’s known oevre and career, or to previous discussions that have...