by Helen Ivory | Aug 31, 2016 | Reviews
Every town begins in the imagination. Every town is a continuous, sustained act of belief which exists as an entity because, collectively, we all agree that it is so. A group of people settle someplace, probably near water. They build their houses, stake their...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 30, 2016 | Prose & Poetry, Reviews
Bernard Kops, Poetry & Peril: PEACE WILL COME, ANNE FRANK INSISTS, YOU WILL SEE Bernard Kops, the doyen of Anglo-Jewish letters,...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 11, 2016 | Reviews
If there were ever a case for the physical book over an e-book, Lace is its embodiment. Small is beautiful, in this case: a pamphlet of thirteen short, numbered poems coupled with vine charcoal...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 30, 2016 | Reviews
Going through the gorgeous, red-slim book My Glass of Wine by Kiriti Sengupta I am reminded of a few lines by Li Po: “Since water still flows, though we cut it with swords, And sorrow returns,...
by Helen Ivory | May 30, 2016 | Reviews
Picking up this slim collection of poems, one wonders whether the dainty yellow paper boats peering at you from the cover are just delicate and frangible or symbolise strength by daring the elements with their fragility and how these connect to the...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 30, 2016 | Reviews
This is Padrika Tarrant’s third book, Fates of the Animals, following Broken Things (Salt 2007) and The Knife Drawer (Salt 2011), also published by Salt, the alkaline in Cromer’s cliffs, comes this book of very short stories that live in a...
