by Ivory Web | Apr 5, 2011 | Reviews
The Knife Drawer by Padrika Tarrant, Salt Modern Fiction release date 20th April 2011. £11.95 – Pre-order here at a cost of £9.95. Town Mouse Country Mouse: The Dark SideLet us celebrate a birth. In her new novel The Knife Drawer Padrika Tarrant has...
by Ivory Web | Apr 3, 2011 | Reviews
The Suitable Girl by Michelle McGrane, Pindrop Press 2010The Suitable Girl, Michelle Mcgrane’s third collection, is brimming with sumptuous concrete detail and mythology. Running just below the surface of the poems is an undercurrent of threat and violence. This may...
by Ivory Web | Mar 16, 2011 | Reviews
Electric Shadow Heidi Williamson, Bloodaxe Books. £8.95 paperback ISBN 1 85224 902 1. 64pp. 2011. Having read and enjoyed the odd poem by Heidi Williamson in journals such as the Rialto and Poetry News over the last few years I...
by Ivory Web | Mar 1, 2011 | Reviews
Year of the Lion Andrew Pidoux, Salt Publishing (Modern Poets Series) ISBN 978-1–84471-791-0 Paperback: £7.99 76ppTowards the end of Andrew Pidoux’s interesting and compulsively readable first collection, winner of the Crashaw Prize in 2009, there is a poem...
by Ivory Web | Feb 17, 2011 | Reviews
ART OF DARKNESS The Afrika Reich by Guy Saville, Hodder and Stoughton February 17th 2011It’s 1952, and the war has been over for twelve years. In the heart of Nazi Afrika, Walter Hochburg works to consolidate the Third Reich’s hold over power. The old colonial...
by Ivory Web | Feb 15, 2011 | Reviews
The Night Post: A New Selection Matthew Sweeney. Salt (Modern Poets Series)ISBN: 978 1 907773 01 3 Hardback: £10.39. 192ppAs any editor will tell you, writers aren’t always the wisest judges of their own work,...
