by Helen Ivory | Aug 7, 2012 | Prose & Poetry, Reviews
Lucy is a poet, translator and teacher. She has been the recipient of a Poetry School Award (www.poetryschool.com), co-edits Long Poem Magazine (www.longpoemmagazine.org.uk), co-judged Cambridge University’s inaugural Benjamin Zephaniah Poetry Competition in...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 5, 2012 | Reviews
Shock value or just shockingly good value? Bobby Parker’s second collection, Comberton, from his KF&S trilogy, Ghost Town Music, leaves nothing unsaid. A haunting mixture of text, hand written confessions and line sketches through which it punches its...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 28, 2012 | Reviews
Counting Rain by Karen Dennison is an interesting first collection. To me it felt like the writing of someone who is on the way to being great. The collection is carefully constructed,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 2, 2012 | Reviews
From One to Another A Body Made of You asks to be read straight through without pause: as one might rush through the rooms of an exhibition hurriedly, excitedly, to get an impression of the whole. And there is a definite pleasure in this rush – a...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 16, 2012 | Reviews
Bringing together poems written over a period of more than twenty years, Counting Eggs is Peter Daniels’ first full length collection which he has now published at the age of fifty seven. However, Daniels is no late starter. Since the early nineteen nineties he has...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 8, 2012 | Reviews
When reading Chris Emery’s latest work, I am struck by the nostalgia of loading suitcases into a 5am taxi taking me to Gatwick airport; setting-out before most have even risen. There is a dawn-ness to his work; while...
