As reviewer Alexandros Plasatis says on the back cover, " The Mad Road is a hooligan of a book.” It’s easy to see why as you dive head...

Alistair Owen’s extensive conversations with William Boyd that took place over a two-year period are not just for smitten Boyd fans. Whether...

Reading and reviewing the collected works (nine in total) of a poet originally writing in another language on Holocaust themes is challengin...

First things first. This tooth fairy is not omniscient. One poem is called ‘Little did I know.’ Nor is she really - this may come as no surp...

It’s not often that a poetry book comes complete with an introduction and notes but both do sterling work in providing a context for these p...

Thomas Halliday’s book is a biography of the Earth, told backwards. He starts 20,000 years ago, at the beginning of the decisive thawing of ...

Rain Falling is a stirring long poem, a battle-cry for action from humanity. Sarah’s innovative formatting of  her urgent message is astonis...

The 2022 UK Slam Champion, three-time All Ulster Poetry Slam Champion, and winner of many other spoken word plaudits Elizabeth McGeown deliv...

Flatlands  by Sue Hubbard retells Gallico’s The Snow Goose but to an adult audience. Two souls that don’t belong, Freda and Philip, are bon...