by Helen Ivory | Feb 2, 2017 | Reviews
Bernard O’Donoghue says it is difficult to name a poetry book, because most are made up of ‘bits and pieces’. The Seasons of Cullen Church is apt. It evokes both the passage of time and the intense attention to location found in O’Donoghue’s work. Previous collections...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 21, 2016 | Reviews
Glass is Elisabeth Sennitt Clough’s first collection and she immediately draws us into a bleak, desolate world, with open skies, dark earth, shame and secrets. She is a new voice rising from the Fens, from a desolate murky landscape, she shines...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 30, 2016 | Reviews
Three poets whose poetry contains a sense of place and being where edges, historic, water- flowed or rock faced allow us readers to engage with themes worthy of the time and effort required. Those of us who are moved by rock’s edges will empathise with David...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 5, 2016 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Reviews
in the dark it is night now and will be for some long time because a friend has come to live here and I must learn to see him in this light before the dawn can be allowed again Nick Carding is an Englishman now living in...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 30, 2016 | Reviews
In what way can it be said, or indeed written, that notes die? Reuben Woolley understands that death must be noted and it is in their dying that poetry has the notation to attempt it. Notes die into silence, into the impossibility of saying, for example,...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 30, 2016 | Reviews
Reading Di Slaney’s first full collection from Valley Press, I’m taken straight to where the smell and taste of outdoors makes time pass differently. ‘Every dawn she looks up, sucks on doing words to break her fast, breathes in the day. So many to roll around a...
