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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
