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Showing posts with label Nottingham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nottingham. Show all posts
Monday, 8 December 2025

Review by Karen Powell-Curtis of "Poems of a Nottingham Lace-Runner" by Mary Bailey

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Mary Bailey published her pamphlet of thirteen poems in 1826 to raise money to support her nine children. Her poems offer an insight into th...
Tuesday, 18 November 2025

Review by Rennie Parker of "Poems of a Nottingham Lace-Runner" by Mary Bailey, with an Introduction by John Goodridge

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  How pleasant to make the acquaintance of Mary Bailey, a lace worker ("Lace Runner") from the great industrial city of Nottingham...
Sunday, 20 July 2025

Review by Julie Gardner of "Skail" by Richie McCaffery

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"Skail" is an old Scots word meaning a scattering or dispersal. This information is provided in the back-cover blurb, where we als...
Monday, 16 June 2025

Review by Pam Thompson of "Pattern-book" by Éireann Lorsung

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  I first came across across  Éireann Lorsung in Nottingham when she was doing her PhD and was a generous host of poetry events. Since then,...
Thursday, 5 December 2024

Review by Jonathan Wilkins of "New Uses for a Wand" by Fiona Theokritoff

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Fiona Theokritoff has a wonderful way with words that beguile, enchant, and beg for answers to so many questions. Science, myth and fancy in...
Sunday, 6 September 2020

Review by Samantha Nicholson-Hickling of "Purl" by Jo Dixon

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Jo Dixon’s Purl is a well crafted, satisfying set of poems which are observant and focus on the big themes in life. In these uncertain time...
Thursday, 26 July 2018

Interview with David Belbin

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David Belbin is the author of fifty books,  including several novels for adults, numerous YA novels and two  collections of short stories...