Suyin Du Bois is a poet of mixed Chinese-Malaysian and Belgian heritage, living in London with her South African husband. Her poems have be...

  Suyin Du Bois’ debut poetry pamphlet is a tapestry of shared cultures, a smorgasbord of delectable delights and rough estimations; a rich ...

This is everyday life, simply depicted, suicide taken in a stride, elongated spaces between the words giving breath where there is none. The...

The late John Burnside praised Jordi Doce as "one of the three or four living European poets whose work I most treasure." Slow Bur...

Sometimes poetry can be the disturbance of clear blue skies, shaking the airline passengers, briefly, from their polite boredom into mild al...

  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,...

It’s been said that humour often comes from a serious place. That concept can be easily applied to Caroline Bird’s Ambush at Still Lake . Th...

As usual, when a new collection of poetry lands on my desk, I open it at random and sample two or three poems to get a feel for tone, conten...

  In a world where on the one hand powerful men are abusing their position through predatory activity towards women, whilst on the other the...

This is a thoughtful and beautifully crafted collection. Like Janus, Catherine faces both directions as she dips into memories. The months a...

This is a tender and moving collection celebrating and memorialising two lives, the poet’s mother and her own husband, but succeeding, as al...

Ilechko's first chapbook, Bartok in Winter (Flutter Press, 2018) was, as one might expect from the title, taut and spare with few words...

Paul O’Prey’s beautifully designed chapbook from The Melos Press contains a mapping of the poet’s dealings with the world, though every step...

Legion of Lost Letters is such a wonderful title, the alliteration bringing with it the promise of historical adventure and discovery, and ...

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...

I have to say when Jonathan Taylor said a collection of poems on Norfolk was available, I jumped at the chance of reviewing it as I love all...

Laurie Bolger is an award-winning poet, performer and founder of The Creative Writing Breakfast Club.  It seems that the poet Laurie Bolger ...

  The poems in Malka Al-Haddad’s collection, The Truth at the End of the Night , are powerful and very moving, as noted by Emma Lee in her F...