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Showing posts with label anthology. Show all posts
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Wednesday, 5 August 2026

Review by Julie Gardner of "Creative Writing and the Critical Commentary: Reflection, Influence, Process," ed. Karen Stevens and Jonathan Taylor

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Anyone studying Creative Writing at undergraduate or post-graduate level is almost certainly required to write a critical commentary to acco...
Tuesday, 28 July 2026

Review by Sally Shaw of "Perfect Circle," ed. Rob Redman, illustrated by Lucy Scott

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Perfect Circle , an illustrated anthology, is volume two in the Uncertain Stories series. The stories tell how life, happenings, folklore, b...
Tuesday, 21 July 2026

Review by Paul Taylor-McCartney of "High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories," ed. Karen Stevens and Jonathan Taylor

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At first glance, High Spirits appears to be an anthology united by a simple premise: stories in which alcohol plays a central role. Yet wha...
Wednesday, 17 June 2026

Review by Jonathan Wilkins of "Salt & Stone" ed. Adriana Ciontea, Maella Cottin and Sam Stone

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This is a collection of emotive short stories by Cornish writers.  Salt & Stone is a beautifully textured anthology that masterfully cap...
Monday, 20 October 2025

Review by Doryn Herbst of "Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers / Cerddi Afonydd Cymru" ed. Sian Northey and Ness Owen

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  Afonydd: Poems for Welsh Rivers / Cerddi Afonydd Cymru  is a Welsh / English bilingual anthology of poems that brings together 50 talented...
Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Review by Julie Gardner of "Football, Fighter Jets, Flowers & Everything in Between" by Ellistown Primary School's Year Six Students

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  As the title suggests, there is variety here. Thirty-two year-six pupils from Ellistown Primary School share their knowledge and interests...
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, 19 December 2023

Review by Kim Wiltshire of "Best British Short Stories 2023" ed. Nicholas Royle

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In this form since 2011, Best British Short Stories 2023 is the thirteenth volume and yet again delivers an anthology that includes a range...
Saturday, 24 September 2022

Review by Jon Wilkins of "Critical-Creative Writing: Two Sides of the Same Coin" by Michelene Wandor

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In life, as in academia, how often do you think, “if only they had written a book about …?” Well, I’ve found the one that I’ve been miss...
Wednesday, 24 November 2021

Review by Katharina Maria Kalinowski of "What Meets the Eye: The Deaf Perspective," ed. Lisa Kelly and Sophie Stone

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What Meets the Eye: The Deaf Perspective is an anthology that registers UK Deaf, deaf and Hard of Hearing experiences by British writers. I...
Saturday, 20 November 2021

Review by Richard Byrt of "Bollocks to Brexit: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction," ed. Ambrose Musiyiwa

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I strongly recommend this entertaining collection. Authors consider Brexit from a wide variety of viewpoints, frequently with passion, and s...
Tuesday, 6 July 2021

Review by Nora Nadjarian of "Homemade Weather: An Anthology of Novelettes-in-Flash" by Tom O'Brien, Ian O'Brien and Donna L. Greenwood

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Homemade Weather (Retreat West Books, 2021) is an anthology of the three winning entries in Retreat West’s annual novelette-in-flash compet...
Tuesday, 1 June 2021

Review by Jonathan Wilkins of "Reading the Cozy Mystery: Critical Essays on an Underappreciated Subgenre" ed. Phyllis M. Betz

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  For most of us, our introduction to the crime fiction genre was through the 'cozy mystery.' At last we have a critical approach to...
Wednesday, 17 March 2021

Review by Sue Mackrell of "#MeToo: Rallying Against Sexual Assault and Harassment: A Women's Poetry Anthology," ed. Deborah Alma

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This powerful anthology of poems has gained new resonance and purpose with the murder of Sarah Everard and the police response to a vigil he...
Wednesday, 17 February 2021

Review by Tracey Foster of "Something Happens, Sometimes Here: Contemporary Lincolnshire Poetry," ed. Rory Waterman

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            Suddenly, the shattered hedges, ancient culverts,            our huge ruined villages, give way as            dimpled fields til...
Thursday, 28 May 2020

Review by Karen Rust of "High Spirits: A Round of Drinking Stories" ed. Karen Stevens and Jonathan Taylor

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  Short story collections didn’t feature in my reading universe until recently, and it’s been a revelation to find them as entertainin...
Monday, 11 November 2019

Review by Lee Wright of "An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Leicester" ed. Jon Wilkins

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In 1975 the French novelist and filmmaker Georges Perec spent three days recording the everyday events he witnessed through different ca...
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Thursday, 15 August 2019

Interview with Ambrose Musiyiwa

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Ambrose Musiyiwa edited and published Bollocks to Brexit: an Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction (CivicLeicester, 2019) and Leicester...