by Helen Ivory | Sep 1, 2013 | Reviews
There are fifty-two complex, thought-provoking poems in this, Angela France’s fascinating third collection, all of them engaged with what...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 11, 2013 | Reviews
Text and Text Messages Inua Ellams is in demand. This collection provides ample evidence for why this is so. Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars is an energetic work, blurring the ever-diminishing distinction between page and performance poetry. First...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2013 | Reviews
The Night My Sister Went to Hollywood is a debut collection from Hilda Sheehan, a mother of five who is the editor of Domestic Cherry magazine and works for Swindon Artswords. To judge from this collection, she is also an accomplished and idiosyncratic poet....
by Helen Ivory | Jul 6, 2013 | Reviews
In this third full-length collection, we are made to feel the elemental forces of weather, the ‘exhalation of tides’, the rhythms of language searching to reach beyond its limits in the need to apprehend “a landscape of shadowed...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 15, 2013 | Poetry as a Lifeline, Reviews
Rooted in Poetry Kops Returns to Russia to Assassinate the Tsar IN 1881, the St. Petersburg cell of the notorious anarchist organization Narodnaya Volya (The People’s Will) assassinates the tyrannical anti-Semite Tsar Alexander II of All Russia, the flames of...
by Helen Ivory | May 27, 2013 | Reviews
In a typical year, I read a lot of new poetry, not all of it, including some of my own, overwhelmingly interesting. Now and again, though, a review...
