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Mandy Pannett reviews ‘The Bridge Selection’ by Nnorom Azuonye

by Helen Ivory | Mar 11, 2013 | Reviews

  These poems consider many themes, some light and tongue in cheek, others dark and grim. Underlying them, sometimes even the most hard hitting, is a sense of optimism and an on-going joy and delight in life and love and all the nuances and richness of language....

Maria C McCarthy Reviews ‘Petrol’ by Martina Evans

by Helen Ivory | Feb 27, 2013 | Reviews

      Imelda is caught in a thirteen-year-old’s world where sweets and a ‘vodka and Britvic’ are equally attractive, and nineteen-year-old farmer Danny Boy is both desirable and off-limits. The book begins with Imelda under the table at her mother’s...

Ken Head reviews David Cooke’s ‘Workhorses’

by Helen Ivory | Feb 15, 2013 | Reviews

                      In her editorial to Issue 163 of Envoi magazine, editor Jan Fortune confronts a question which even  passionate poetry readers must sometimes ask:  why read poetry?  In answer, she argues a...

James Naiden reviews John Calvin Rezmerski’s ‘Breaking The Rules: Starting with Ghazals’

by Helen Ivory | Feb 8, 2013 | Reviews

                        This more-or-less recent book of poems by John Calvin Rezmerski received no critical attention after it appeared in 2010, unfortunate because publishing a book is one thing, but...

Fiona Sinclair reviews ‘Canterbury Tales on a Cockcrow Morning’ by Maggie Harris

by Helen Ivory | Feb 1, 2013 | Reviews

                      Unlike the pilgrims in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the characters in Maggie Harris’ collection of short stories Canterbury Tales on a Cock Crow Morning not only arrive in Canterbury but take...

Abegail Morley reviews ‘The Instinct Against Death’ by Emer Gillespie

by Helen Ivory | Jan 26, 2013 | Reviews

                    Emer Gillespie’s debut collection feels as if it has been gestating for a long time and has slowly unravelled to reveal itself. The end result is a tight collection that beautifully flows from...
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