by Ivory Web | Feb 11, 2012 | Reviews
Hurt by Martyn Crucefix Enitharmon Press ISBN: 978-1-904634-97-3 £9.99 114ppFrom first to last, Martyn Crucefix’s impressive fifth collection offers writing of quality and worth. Arranged in three sections, its fifty-one thematically and...
by Ivory Web | Jan 23, 2012 | Reviews
Alice Oswald, Memorial (Faber and Faber, 2011) pp.84, £12.99pAlice Oswald’s Memorial is “a translation of the Iliad’s atmosphere, not its story”. That Oswald is a classicist – she read classics at New College, Oxford – and a distinguished poet herself is obvious...
by Ivory Web | Jan 19, 2012 | Reviews
Running With Scissors: Poems by Tim Lenton(Published by Jokerman House, 22 Aspland Road, Norwich NR1 1SH, 2011, Pamphlet: £3.00 22pp)Tim Lenton is a fine poet who deserves much wider publication and recognition. He is a former newspaper sub-editor and columnist...
by Ivory Web | Jan 7, 2012 | Reviews
Carole Bromley: A Guided Tour of the Ice House. Smith/Doorstep Books. 2011. ISBN: 9781906613310. £9.95.Pippa Little: The Snow Globe: Red Squirrell Press. 2011. ISBN: 9781906700591. £4.50.A Guided Tour of the Ice House is a long overdue full length...
by Ivory Web | Dec 17, 2011 | Reviews
Andrew McMillan, The Moon is a Supporting Player (Sand Chapbooks, Red Squirrel Press, 2011) pp.38, £4.00p.Helen Ivory’s cover design – which I take to be a homage to Magritte – is a perfect introduction to Andrew McMillan’s new pamphlet, The Moon is a Supporting...
by Ivory Web | Dec 14, 2011 | Reviews
Jacqueline Saphra, The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions, Flipped Eye 2011, £5.99This is an exceptionally good collection of poems that have both energy and weight, as they sparkle while they settle into your consciousness. These qualities come from a strongly individual...
