by Kate Birch | Sep 28, 2026 | Reviews
Napolitano navigates girlhood, womanhood, motherhood, grief, and the everyday with remarkable assurance. Each poem in the The Lives We Had Before is a story, an empathy machine, a portal into her rich and vivid imagination. Napolitano’s writing carries echoes...
by Kate Birch | Sep 15, 2026 | News, Picks of the Month
Relevant, brave and urgently important Subtle description of very complicated inter personal inter cultural situation. Sometimes a poem is of the moment. It needs to be read, its contents needs to be heard. ‘At the End of the Class’ by Viv Fogel is...
by Kate Birch | Sep 11, 2026 | Reviews
This is a book about noticing. All poems are about noticing, of course, but Andrew McDonnell takes it to a whole new level. He really sees. Whether it’s trained on the field mouse disturbed by a farmworker’s boot, the patio behind a bar, or the schoolmate ‘in...
by Kate Birch | Sep 7, 2026 | Featured, News, Poetry
Heathrow flight lines I kill lines of ant. Heat arrives in the wrong season. It feels important to know the names of birds under the thrum of a flight corridor. Birds collide with machines, causing damage, risking delays. Who counts bird deaths? A...
by Kate Birch | Aug 31, 2026 | Reviews
With a collection titled Memento Mori, you’d expect poems that dwell solemnly on death. Gareth Writer-Davies certainly keeps mortality in view, but this collection is distinguished by its insistence that death is encountered, not as an abstraction, but through...
