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...
by Kate Birch | Sep 4, 2024 | Reviews
At the Edge of Language Simon Maddrell, The Whole Island There are some diamonds that are mostly black because their unique crystalline structure absorbs most of the light. Change your perspective as you look at them and it seems that different parts...
by Kate Birch | Jul 8, 2024 | Reviews
The Adjustments (Two Rivers Press, 2024) assembles a narrative from pick-pocketed moments of a life presented in backwards motion. The poems within speak of multiple losses, grief – historic and new – and yet, the reader emerges from the pages with...
