by Helen Ivory | May 7, 2015 | Reviews
In Letting Go, Angela Topping writes about loss, she writes about love, she writes about parents and children. She holds family relationships up to the light as if she was a jeweller examining a diamond. And on every turn, she sees something...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 2, 2015 | Reviews
O’Brien’s debut collection War Reporter recently won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection. It deals with his relationship with the Pulitzer prize winning war photographer Paul Watson, exploring what drives him to take his camera...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2015 | Reviews
Women are everywhere, doing all manner of tasks in all manner of ways. In this witty yet intensely moving collection, Cathy Bryant gives us sight of, and insight into, their many and varied lives. The book is presented in three sections:...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 13, 2015 | Reviews
Undisturbed Circles is Bethany W. Pope’s third full length collection and follows closely on the heels of her chapbook, The Gospel of Flies (Writing Knights Press, 2014). It consists of six acrostic sonnet sequences, a form which Pope first unveiled in...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 1, 2015 | Reviews
This collection made me think driving through the Fens in August. I was travelling along straight roads, under wide skies. But despite the open landscape, there was much I couldn’t see. It felt like speeding through a region that was tangled and obscure....
by Helen Ivory | Nov 10, 2014 | Reviews
Rosie Jackson’s What the Ground Holds celebrates what endures in the lives of individuals, and in the human and natural world. Demeter and Persephone are among the guiding mythic figures, more earthy writers and artists giving flesh to the same stories. In ‘Recovery...
