by Prerana Kumar | Jun 30, 2023 | Reviews
Improvised Explosive Device by Arji Manuelpillai Penned in the Margins (106 pages of poetry) The first time I heard a poem by Arji Manuelpillai, he was reading from this collection on BBC Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’. The poem was called ‘Ways of Being Heard’, and I...
by Prerana Kumar | May 19, 2023 | Reviews
Love Leans over the Table by Rosie Jackson Two Rivers Press, £10.99 (100 pages of poetry) This a long, fascinatingly dense collection that bears much careful study. I never set out to read any book in one sitting, and with my issues with reading, cannot often do so....
by Prerana Kumar | Mar 23, 2023 | Reviews
Violet Existence by Katy Wareham Morris Broken Sleep Books, £6.50 (40 pages) Sparking with electricity and a dextrous fluidity, this pamphlet takes the reader from the hospital ward to the hedgerow, and from Masterchef to Mother Nature’s ever-bubbling...
by Chloe Elliott | Feb 16, 2023 | Reviews
Sometime, in a Churchyard by Louise Warren Paekakariki Press £12.50 (16 pages of poetry, 17 illustrations by Charlotte Harker) If you wander a short way from St Pancras International, you’ll find Old St Pancras Church nestled in its small envelope of land –...
by Chloe Elliott | Feb 2, 2023 | Reviews
The School of Try Again: In Praise Of Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency (Bloodaxe, 2022) by Helen Bowell When I read Chen Chen’s first book, When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities, I thought I was straight. I loved...
by Chloe Elliott | Dec 19, 2022 | Reviews
The title of Sanjeev Sethi’s sixth book of poetry, Strokes of Solace, proclaims a promise. And Sethi delivers, singing the universal human comedy from a personal vantage point while sprinkling seasoned balms along the way. The collection is a quest for healing,...
