by Kayleigh Jayshree | Feb 29, 2024 | Reviews
In Praise Of: Kayleigh Jayshree Reviews Bright Fear by Mary Jean Chan The title of this collection has never felt so poignant. As the years get more and more sweltering, and queer people’s rights become discussed as if it’s a matter of opinion, I feel...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Feb 19, 2024 | Reviews
In Praise Of… Faunistics: A Collection of Wild Haiku and Illustrations R.C. Thomas’ new collection of 140 haiku Faunistics is divided, by continent, into seven geographical sections. Each of these sections contains an engaging selection of haiku,...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Feb 5, 2024 | Reviews
I’m an avid reader of pamphlets and the wealth of skill they exhibit; as poetry becomes more popular and well-regarded, more and more emerging poets are publishing several pamphlets before deciding on a full-length collection. A pamphlet is like an EP; it can...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 27, 2024 | News, Reviews
‘What’s real is us’ ‘Can any amount of words stop a thing from happening?’ A (white American) poet asks, positioning his words in opposition to his government’s war on Vietnam. Linton Kwesi Johnson (the dub poet and British Black Panther) when asked if...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Dec 22, 2023 | Reviews
Review of We Saw It All Happen by Julian Bishop Writing successful ecopoetry is harder than it looks. Precise definitions of ‘ecopoetry’ (as opposed to nature poetry more broadly) vary. In general this is a poetics which will propose or attempt to navigate a...
by Kate Birch | Oct 3, 2023 | Reviews
crows at dusk by James Roderick Burns Red Moon Press (USA) www.redmoonpress.com $20 (USA) (112 pages) The first thing one notices when looking at James Roderick Burns’ haiku collection crows at dusk is its front cover, which features Van Gogh’s Wheat Field with Crows...
