by Helen Ivory | Nov 15, 2021 | Reviews
Spoiler alert! This is a seriously good book, but it pulls no punches about the nuts and bolts of motherhood. No quaint, cooing here. Instead, there’s blood and milk; love and its shadow; the joys and the sheer brain-boiling frustrations of...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2021 | Reviews
Everlove is a title to live up to but the poems in Maggie Butt’s sixth collection are everloving in that they demonstrate her enduring and empathetic concern with the human condition. The collection is arranged in three sections, the first of which ‘Torn’ is...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 29, 2021 | Reviews
Right from the off, you sense the inviting nature of this pamphlet that circles around Beethoven, mothering, and the power of music to shape lives. In GREAT MASTER/small boy, built around her German travels with her student son in search of...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 9, 2021 | Featured, Reviews
Fan-Peckled, by Jean Atkin and illustrated by Katy Alston, is a fascinating journey that has been written in an old idiomatic Shropshire language and was inspired by The Shropshire Word-Book, A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used...
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...
