Reviews: Beverly Ellis on two American writers

The Worm In The Apple In The Garden: Two American Poets   I’ll Tell You So: A Flash Story/Haibun Collection by Jeffrey Winke Cross+Roads Press, $12.00, ISBN 978-1-889460-23-9   Drought Resistant Strain by Mather Schneider Interior Noise Press, $15.00, ISBN...

George Szirtes reviews High Performance by Luke Wright

Luke Wright: High Performance, Nasty Little PressPoetry is a hybrid art and a pure one. It is pure because, at one level, in its origins, it is spell and cry, an oral art that enchants and conjures. On the other hand, the history of poetry is bound up in writing – in...

Ken Head reviews Helen Mort's ghosts

a pint for the ghost by Helen Morttall-lighthouse – www.tall-lighthouse.co.ukISBN:  978 1 904551 73 7, Paperback:  £5.00, 42ppFive-times winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, winner of the Manchester Young Writer Prize...

Ken Head reviews Alan Brownjohn

Ludbrooke: An Introduction by Alan BrownjohnThe Poetry Trust, 2009 www.thepoetrytrust.org ISBN 978-0-9550910-2-0, Paperback £5.00 (24pp) This attractively produced pamphlet of 16 poems, published in a limited edition of 300 by The Poetry Trust, precedes Ludbrooke...

Review: You Are Here poetry show, Norwich

You Are Here, a poetry show: Colette Bryce, Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott 20 January 2010, Norwich Arts Centre   An interesting evening. When I bought my ticket from the venue, five days in advance, it was numbered only 34 and I had the sinking feeling that once...

Chapbooks: Grant Savage’s "Finding a Breeze" reviewed

Finding a BreezeAs with any field of endeavor, there are high flyers, egotists and non-assuming types that simply do their own thing. The chapbook in this small review comes from such a non-assuming man. Grant Savage’s Finding a Breeze was launched during the 2009...