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,...
by Chloe Elliott | Dec 2, 2022 | Reviews
Jessica Mookherjee’s third collection, Notes From A Shipwreck is an epic voyage filled with maritime references. It weaves the poet’s Bengali Hindu heritage with classic European tales and alludes to migrant journeys. The cover image from Jason de Caires Taylor’s...
by Chloe Elliott | Nov 20, 2022 | Reviews
To craft poetry that remains impactful and affecting whilst avoiding emotive, didactic writing is a real art. And Fool’s Paradise by Zoe Brooks is a rare example of this type of artistry –a potent book which is nuanced, suggestive and often ambiguous. Brooks is...
by Chloe Elliott | Nov 13, 2022 | Reviews
In 1958, geophysicist A. G. Lewis travelled to the Antarctic to investigate the landscapes and skies of that vast and icy continent. Now Elizabeth Lewis Williams traces her father’s journeys, from the Peninsula to Mt Erebus. They are real, imagined, and...
