by Kate Birch | Aug 31, 2021 | Reviews
Too Young Too Loud Too Different edited by Maisie Lawrence and Rishi Dastidar ISBN 978-1-4721-5506-1 Few collectives have had a profound impact on the contemporary poetry landscape in recent years than Malika’s Poetry Kitchen. And this anthology, edited...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Aug 11, 2021 | Reviews
This Kilt of Many Colours by David Bleiman Dempsey & Windle ISBN: 9781913329457 This collection of 24 poems is a celebration of multiple identity. It’s also funny, moving, mocking, sad and slightly wild. Why the title? David Bleiman lives in Scotland but...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jun 30, 2021 | Reviews
The Catalogue of Unsatisfied Desires by Isabella Streffen Printed Authority Edition, 2021 Limited Edition (Sold Out) The Catalogue of Unsatisfied Desires by Isabella Streffen is an exquisitely beautiful and cathartic exhibition of wanting. Initially a hybrid work, it...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jun 16, 2021 | Reviews
Portrait of Colossus by Samatar Elmi Flipped Eye Publishing, 2021 ISBN: 9781905233618 £4.00 From the first poem of Samatar Elmi’s debut pamphlet, we know that this Colossus is also imagined as an immigrant: ‘fixed in stride across wandering oceans, / a bridge’. It...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | May 26, 2021 | Reviews
The Bone that Sang by Claire Booker Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2020 ISBN: 978-1-912876-39-6 £6.00 Bold, inventive, metaphorically rich – Claire Booker’s second poetry pamphlet, The Bone that Sang, opens with a title poem that stakes out her poetic terrain. The symbolic...
by Memoona Zahid | Apr 14, 2021 | Reviews
Mither Tongue – A love letter to translation Parallel translations always bring a certain kind of joy. I have fond memories of reading Pablo Neruda for the first time, original text on the left, English translation on the right. Feeling out the Spanish sounds out loud...
