by Ivory Web | Aug 1, 2010 | Reviews
Love and Other Conflicts by Geoff Stevens (poems on CD)This morning my hangover didn’t want to let me go, pulling me back into bed each time I tried to stand up. Leave off, I said to myself. Geoff Stevens made me promise to review his new CD. If I don’t do it today it...
by Ivory Web | Jul 28, 2010 | Reviews
Fiona Sinclair reviews Circling the Core by Myra Schneider, Enitharmon 2009, ISBN 9781904634669, £9.95Many of the poems in Myra Schneider’s collection Circling the Core are meditations. Her great achievement here is to allow her female personas to find amongst...
by Ivory Web | Jul 10, 2010 | Reviews
For the Chiding Dove by Helen Pletts(YouWriteOn.com, £5.99, ISBN 978-1-84923-485-6)The title of this collection struck me as a bit tame – and might lead the reader to expect delicate, lavender-scented verse about typical poetic subjects – but I’m delighted to report...
by Ivory Web | Jul 3, 2010 | Reviews
Bridge by Laura Elliott (Cafe Writers Norfolk Commission) Gatehouse Press Ltd. 2010ISBN: 978 – 0 – 9562083 – 7 – 8 Hardback: £10 11 black & white photographs: Angus Sinclair 48ppPoets live between two...
by Ivory Web | Jun 20, 2010 | Reviews
Advice on Wearing Animal Prints by Selima Hill, £5.50 Flarestack Poets, 2009Selima Hill’s pamphlet Advice On Wearing Animal Prints charts the life of the eccentric Agatha. To achieve some coherence for the reader, Hill wisely anchors the surreal tale in a mostly...
by Ivory Web | Jun 7, 2010 | Reviews
Whistle by Martin Figura, Arrowhead Press 2010When Martin Figura was a ten year old boy, his father Frank murdered his mother June.In his first full collection, Whistle, Figura explores the trauma, loss and grief of the past. Yet this book is in no...
