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...
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 31, 2021 | Reviews
An original approach to the description and contemplation of life, nature and universal stories characterises Williams’s ninth collection. This ‘Almanack’ is a ‘magpie’...
by Memoona Zahid | Mar 16, 2021 | Reviews
Jonathan Davidson’s A Commonplace is an act of poetic generosity. Fully in the spirit of his entertaining and engaging essay-memoir On Poetry (also from Smith/Doorstop in 2018), the author seeks to remind us of...
