by Ivory Web | Nov 6, 2011 | Reviews
The Mystery Of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens, completed by David Madden, Unthank BooksISBN: 978-0-9564223-3-0 Paperback: £15.00 466ppWhen Charles Dickens died, suddenly and much too young, on 9th June 1870, he left unfinished a novel which might otherwise...
by Ivory Web | Nov 4, 2011 | Reviews
Enchantment by David Morley, Carcanet, £9.95, 84pp. This book is aptly titled: it certainly does bring the reader under Morley’s spell. The first poem is an elegy for Nicholas Farrar Hughes (Plath’s son). Morley recounts a simple and beautiful memory of going for a...
by Ivory Web | Oct 29, 2011 | Reviews
Joanna Ezekiel: Centuries of Skin. Ragged Raven Poetry. 2010. ISBN: 9780955255298. £7.Miles Cain: The Border: Valley Press. 2011. ISBN: 9780956890443. £7.50.Centuries of Skin is the first full length collection of poetry from Joanna Ezekiel. Bringing...
by Ivory Web | Oct 12, 2011 | Reviews
Claire Trevien Low-Tide Lottery (Salt Modern Voices, 2011, £4.99)The Salt Modern Voices series is turning out to be very interesting, with highlights so far including a beguiling debut by J.T Welsch and an accomplished offering from Amy De’ath; Claire Trevien’s...
by Ivory Web | Oct 6, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Reviews
This Room in the Sunlight Collected Poems by Bernard Kops, David Paul Publishing, London, 2010, £9.99p, Paperback, 132pp., ISBN 9780954848262Among the greatest events of British literature this decade is the publication of the collected poems of Bernard Kops, the...
by Ivory Web | Sep 28, 2011 | Reviews
Another Breath of Fresh AirThe Hitcher by Hannah Lowe, pub. The Rialto (Aylsham, England), 2011, price £5.50, ISBN 978-0-9551273-5-9Subsequent readings of this pamphlet confirmed my first impressions, that this is an exciting debut collection by a gutsy...
