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Claire Booker reviews ‘Mahler’s Hut & Other Accommodations’ by Alan Price

by Helen Ivory | Jan 17, 2018 | Reviews

    Which of us hasn’t yearned for an artist’s hut – that womb like space in which to delve for truths? Gustav Mahler’s little chalet in the Vienna Woods peeps out from between fir trees on the cover of Alan Price’s newest pamphlet. Mahler himself emerges from...

Elisabeth Sennitt Clough reviews ‘Gaps’ by Jenny Danes

by Helen Ivory | Jan 3, 2018 | Reviews

        Gaps is the debut pamphlet from Jenny Danes, a winner of The Poetry Business New Poets Prize 2015/16. Comprised of 17 poems (23 pages of poetry), Danes’s pamphlet corresponds to the dictionary definition of ‘gaps’ as differences between...

Kevin Saving reviews ‘Shadows Waltz Haltingly’ by Alan Morrison

by Helen Ivory | Dec 9, 2017 | Reviews

It should, in the interests of full disclosure, be recorded that this reviewer has been trumpeting the merits of Alan Morrison’s erudite and tendentious verse for over a decade now. Online, in conversation and -once previously, in a book review- Morrison’s...

Devika Basu reviews ‘Dreams of the Sacred and Ephemeral’ by Kiriti Sengupta

by Helen Ivory | Nov 15, 2017 | Reviews

  “I consider poetry my existence”— it is indeed a revelation on the part of a poet who has coined chiseled words from the depths of his heart to present this poetic trilogy, Dreams of the Sacred and Ephemeral, a genre quite unique in literature. The book takes...

Konstandinos Mahoney reviews ‘Acrobats of Sound’ by Colin Pink

by Helen Ivory | Sep 10, 2017 | Reviews

          Colin Pink’s impressive first collection, Acrobats of Sound, takes its title from his poem, A Peal of Bells that marvels at the ability of heavy leaden church bells to be rocked into joyful conversation. And this is what Pink does...

Susan Castillo Street reviews ‘The Swell’ by Jessica Mookherjee

by Helen Ivory | Aug 30, 2017 | Reviews

        Writing in 1989, scholar Werner Sollors caused a bit of a stir when he challenged the concept of ethnicity as a hermetic, immutable category. Sollors describes ethnic groups as existing within history and as highly unstable and pliable...
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