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,...
by Sofía Masondo | Nov 12, 2024 | Reviews
Hibbett reclaims monstrosity in High Jump as Icarus Story Gustav Parker Hibbett moves through the world with exclusion fused to the bones. First, from English studies; they were pushed to study STEM at Stanford on a scholarship: “We want you and your body in STEM, we...
by Sofía Masondo | Oct 21, 2024 | Reviews
Estrangement is a complex, brutal place, both to find yourself in and to inhabit. It’s also a dangerous place to write from, being fraught with exposure, stigma, judgment and misunderstanding; and potentially exhausting, given that in many estrangements there’s no...
