by Helen Ivory | May 16, 2012 | Reviews
There is a softness at work in Abegail Morley’s second collection, Snow Child, published by Pindrop Press. Words appear on the page with the crisp crunch of footsteps on fresh snow. Opening...
by Helen Ivory | May 2, 2012 | Reviews
Many of the poems in this collection, rather than looking outwards as the title implies, are a focusing inwards – a series of close observations of those things which make us human, and sometimes just of things themselves – as in the title poem. However, High’s focus...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 10, 2012 | Reviews
Smith / Doorstop Books ISBN: 978-1-906613-47-1 (hbk) £12.95 69pp This delightful and beautifully produced book has been a pleasure to read and has persuaded me to arrange a trip later this year to the place which is its immediate subject and somewhere I...
by Kate Birch | Apr 4, 2012 | Reviews
This Line Is Not For Turning: An Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry, edited by Jane Monson, pub. Cinnamon Press 2011, price £8.99, ISBN 978-1-907090-51-6 At long last! What a delight to see an anthology of British prose poetry. As the...
by Ivory Web | Mar 21, 2012 | Reviews
Esther Morgan: Grace. Bloodaxe Books. 2011. ISBN: 9781852249182. £8.95. Esther Morgan’s enigmatically entitled third collection, Grace, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. It also contains her Bridport winning poem...
by Ivory Web | Feb 21, 2012 | Reviews
The New Blur Album by John Osborne, 2011, Nasty Little Press 28pp | £5 ISBN: 978-0-9563767-7-0Reading critically and reading for pleasure can sometimes be at odds with one another. Reading through John Osborne’s latest collection the critical reader in my...
