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...
by Kate Birch | Mar 4, 2025 | Reviews
Janus, the second poetry collection from Catherine Ayres, is unusual in its structure, looking, as the title suggests, both forward and backward. The passage of time is important in this book. The contents page is arranged by date, and then a brief description...
by Fathima Zahra | Dec 12, 2024 | Reviews
This poet has a talent for transforming the familiar world through the power of her imagination and, moreover, doing so in plain, down-to-earth language. Things are personified and persons are thingified,...
