by IB | Jul 14, 2025 | Reviews
Poet Amlanjyoti Goswami’s third collection of verses, A Different Story (Poetrywala, 2025), conjures a subject that resists acts of dumping trauma, instead alchemizing them into dry humor and decorous irreverence, sans complacency or arrogance. This curious...
by IB | Jun 30, 2025 | Reviews
‘this too is a glistening’ is a collaborative pamphlet by Pratyusha, Jessica J. Lee, Alycia Pirmohamed and Nina Mingya Powles. Written over a weekend at Brandenburg, it is a collection of vignettes, poems andprose tackling questions about selfhood, the body and...
by IB | Jun 17, 2025 | Reviews
Where the Land Forgets Itself is Connor Sansby’s second full-length collection of poetry. It’s packed with strong publication credits, including ‘Marine Snow’, which won the 2024 Rosemary McLeish Prize. Often using experimental language and structure,...
by IB | May 29, 2025 | Reviews
Neither divorcees nor discos make much of an appearance in Christopher Crawford’s magnetic debut, but music – ‘thunder or something/ that sounds like a woman’s laugh’ runs through it. Albeit a strange music, weird echoes of weeping and passion and ‘a...
by Kate Birch | Apr 1, 2025 | Reviews
From the start of this very honest and reflective book, you are drawn in to the journey represented in the pages. The story starts with a meeting between Dick and Mugabi, and this weaves an innovative thread through the collection – a carefully thought out seam of...
by IB | Mar 17, 2025 | Reviews
The Horse And The Girl (originally published by Lapwing) is the first book in of what will be a trilogy, The Crossing Places Series. Maiden Mother Crone is the second publication in the series. Both collections speak to the tradition of the quest narrative, as the...
