Luck is the Hook by Imtiaz Dharker (Bloodaxe, 2018) is my stand-out book of poetry this year. Lyrical with a compassionate humanity, Dharker’s poems have a piercing, deceptive simplicity of image and language, particularly… Continue reading
Dalila by Jason Donald, about a Kenyan asylum seeker and her treatment in Glasgow and other parts of the UK, is brilliantly written – spare but heart-stopping. Dalila’s experiences are based on those… Continue reading
STEPHANIE GREEN‘s pamphlet ‘Flout’ was published by HappenStance, and launched at StAnza, 2015. ‘Berlin Umbrella’ an ‘aural walk’ poetry/sound collaboration with Sound Artiste, Sonja Heyer, will launch in Berlin in summer, 2018. She… Continue reading
Stephanie Green, Flout (HappenStance, 2015) By Helen Murray The further north I go, the more I must face myself. In Flout, Stephanie Green creates poems that celebrate and challenge forces of nature and the… Continue reading
The Art of Falling, by Kim Moore (Seren, 2015) Kim Moore’s The Art of Falling is from the gut, as you would expect from someone who comes from a line of scaffolders, plasterers and… Continue reading
Geraldine Mitchell, Of Birds and Bones (Arlen House, 2014) I’ve read this many times, and love it. There is an overall quietness and dignity in this poetry book, especially when dealing with topics like a relative’s… Continue reading
STEPHANIE GREEN is Irish/English, educated at Trinity College, Dublin, has an M.A. in Modernism in English Literature and Fine Art from Kent University and has an MPhil in Creative Writing from Glasgow University, 2004. Her pamphlet, Flout, will be published… Continue reading
Tom White Rob Mackenzie Henry King Chin Li Stephanie Green A.M. Bakalar P.W. Bridgman Maria Sledmere Richard Price Rebecca Varley-Winter Jock Stein Douglas Irving Rebecca DeWald Daniel Bosch Victoria Min-Yi Wang Callum McSorley… Continue reading
P.W. Bridgman Rebecca DeWald Henry Bell Stephanie Green Vicki Husband Andrew Lees Steve Mentz Andrew Rubens Naomi Richards Elissa Soave
DECEMBER 2017 Intense Moments with Strangers: The Spit, the Sound and the Nest by Kathrine Sowerby. Sarah Spence reviews poet Sowerby’s debut prose collection of three novellas (Vagabond Voices, 2017). NOVEMBER 2017 Some… Continue reading
