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Sunday, 11 May 2025

Review by Penny Walsh of "Moments of Grace: Creative Non-Fiction and Poetry by Scriptorium Writers and Guests," ed. Fiona Linday

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This anthology is nicely written and set out, along with the intermittent photographs and art to accompany the works. It is an ideal book if...
Tuesday, 6 May 2025

Review by Harry Whitehead of "Syllables of the Briny World" by Georgina Key

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Georgina Key’s Syllables of the Briny World offers a poignant and vivid magical realist evocation of Hurricane Ike’s devastating rout of th...
Saturday, 26 April 2025

Review by Rennie Parker of "Saltburn" by Drew Gummerson

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Drew Gummerson is evidently a writer from the "more is more" school of creativity, like a speeded-up Dickens with additional body-...
Thursday, 24 April 2025

Review by Jonathan Wilkins of "Wild Boar" by Hannah Lutz, trans. Andy Turner

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Ritve is looking for wild boar. Glenn is looking for happiness. Mia is looking after her grandfather who is suffering from Alzheimer’s. All ...
Monday, 21 April 2025

Review by Colin Dardis of "Boy, Mother" by Caroline Bracken

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Winner of the 2024 Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Prize, Boy, Mother is a sequence of poems exploring a mother’s relatio...
Saturday, 19 April 2025

Review by Gary Day of "Nothing Louche or Bohemian" by Tina Cole and Michael W. Thomas

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It’s an interesting title. One that turns its back on the sordid and the  unconventional but what does its face toward? The answer is local ...
Friday, 18 April 2025

Review by Claire Cox of "Dear Life" by Shanta Acharya

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As Maggie Nelson writes in On Freedom : ‘The question is not whether we are enmeshed, but how we negotiate, suffer and dance with that enmes...
Friday, 11 April 2025

Review by Peter Raynard of "Year of the Rat" by Charles G. Lauder, Jr

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Dual heritage poets often explore the meaning of home, as a way of understanding their life. Lauder did this most eloquently in his debut co...
Wednesday, 9 April 2025

Review by Lee Wright of "On Writers and Writing" by Henry James

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The essays featured in On Writers and Writing span fifty years and include Henry James’ short reviews, obituaries, reflections on the works...