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Tuesday 9 April 2024
Review by Jon Wilkins of "Come Here to this Gate" by Rory Waterman
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This is a beautiful collection in three parts. The first part consists of a visceral remembrance of the author's father and the weight ...
Monday 8 April 2024
Review by Lee Wright of "The Observable Universe" by Heather McCalden
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Following the death of both her parents from AIDS in the 1990s, Heather McCalden was left an orphan at the age ten, to be raised by her gran...
Sunday 7 April 2024
Review by Jane Simmons of "The Strongbox" by Sasha Dugdale
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In her new collection The Strongbox , Sasha Dugdale draws on elements of Greek mythology and classical epic literature, exploring and reinve...
Friday 5 April 2024
Review by Rennie Parker of "The Point of the Stick" by Neil Fulwood
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Here is one of those unclassifiable pamphlets which makes perfect sense when you think about it. Why hasn't anyone thought of this befor...
Wednesday 3 April 2024
Review by Sally Shaw of "The Dark Within Them" by Isabelle Kenyon
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The Dark Within Them is a novel by Isabelle Kenyon, a Manchester-based editor, writer, poet and spoken word performer. The novel is set in...
Thursday 28 March 2024
Review by Megan Stafford-Adatia of "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
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In her novel, The Woman Warrior , Maxine Hong Kingston shares the "talk-story" that has been passed down through generations of Ch...
Tuesday 26 March 2024
Review by Gary Day of "The Silence" by Gillian Clarke
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Charles Simic said that ‘poetry is a translation of the silence.’ Gillian Clarke’s collection goes a step further. It is not a translation...
Wednesday 20 March 2024
Review by Gary Day of "Selected Poems" by Hubert Moore
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I do not know how I have missed the sight of Hubert Moore’s comet crossing my sky on its orbit round the poetic heavens. Thankfully I can no...
Thursday 7 March 2024
Review by Tracey Foster of "Orwell’s Roses" by Rebecca Solnit
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In the spring of 1936, a young author set about planting a garden in his rented cottage. Awaiting the arrival of his new wife and hoping to ...
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