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...

Forty-eight years in the making, Jeffrey Wainwright’s New & Collected Poems takes us back. It begins in 1978 with his collection Heart’s...

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

In the past I have found the work of this renowned US poet somewhat complex and impenetrable. Killing Spree , in sharp contrast, is spare an...

Some poems use form and language to weave gold from the ordinary stuff of life; others take extraordinary (even extreme) topics and much of ...

There’s something about Martyn Crucefix’s poetry that reminds me of a theremin, an early electronic musical instrument that was played witho...

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

Anne Caldwell’s The Language of Now is a collection of prose poems that moves quietly but insistently through memory, landscape and the fr...

Carrie Etter has a way of simplifying complex and serious narratives into easily digestible, almost kindly delivered rants in this collectio...

Jayne Stanton’s beautifully crafted poems chart the stages in her journey beginning with her cancer diagnosis, through treatment, and beyond...

Only participles here: their ghosts fill the passing of present and present pasts in Martyn Crucefix’s latest pamphlet Walking Away . One do...

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...

Sue Forrester’s debut pamphlet, Familiar Phantoms , transports us across time and place, from England to Africa and Asia. We tend to think o...

In Reflections on Exile and Other Essays , Edward Said describes the "contrapuntal" music of those living in exile: the awareness ...

In the midst of the Covid pandemic, German poet Michael Krüger was also beginning to be treated for leukaemia. He retreated to a wooden hous...

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

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

I am attracted by flânerie, the random wander in cityscape, and was intrigued by the postcolonial aspect. While I anticipated the gauntlet o...

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