by Elontra Hall | Sep 5, 2025 | Reviews
CLOSE -UP Quentin Cowdry Hedgehog Poetry Press 2025 ISBN 978-1-916830-47-9 This pamphlet of twenty-two poems won a Hedgehog Press first pamphlet competition in 2023. The poems are carefully structured in regular stanzas, with well-paced, rhythmical lines and...
by Elontra Hall | Aug 21, 2025 | Reviews
Given how much she does for the poetry community—the Planet Podcast series with Peter Kenny, her monthly submissions newsletter, her blog posts, her books on getting published, launching a publisher with other folks, etc., it’s heartwarming to see the attention being...
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...
