by Helen Ivory | Sep 29, 2014 | Reviews
The Crumb Road is a debut collection from Maitreyabandhu, a Buddhist priest who was born Ian Johnson in 1961. The contemplative tone of his prefatory lyric, ‘This’, hints at the journey he has made: There’s no law against my listening to this thrush behind the barn,...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 10, 2014 | Reviews
This is a book someone could turn into a Hollywood movie. Written in a genuinely 60s poetry style, with blocks of indented prosaic lines broken at unusual places...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 28, 2014 | Reviews
The lover of poetry unfamiliar with the work of Vladislav Khodasevich could have no better introduction than this. A detailed introduction by Michael Wachtel, Professor of...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 11, 2014 | Reviews
Although Ken Head’s poems have appeared widely in print magazines, online and in various chapbooks,...
by Helen Ivory | May 9, 2014 | Reviews
The strands of David Morley’s thought in this collection are rich and various. On the one hand, he makes use of his own part-Romani background, together with his knowledge of the Romani dialect in which he sometimes writes. On the other, the poems in the...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 30, 2014 | Reviews
The history of the aeroplane becomes the third character in Fred and Blossom’s story in this tender, largely biographical collection. From the outset Fred and Blossom were bound to collide even though they grew...
