Ana Blandiana, The Sun of Hereafter/The Ebb of the Senses, Trans. Paul Scott Derrick and Viorica Patea (Bloodaxe Books, 2017). Originally published in 2000 & 2004. Review by Matt MacDonald The Sun Of Hereafter bristles… Continue reading
J. O. Morgan, In Casting Off (HappenStance, 2015) Review by Matt Macdonald From a critical standpoint, it would be all too easy to compare In Casting Off with Morgan’s earlier narrative collections, Natural Mechanical and… Continue reading
Miriam Gamble, Pirate Music (Bloodaxe, 2015) by Matt Macdonald The surest sign of a cohesive collection is that something of it lingers in the mind after the reading, and even more telling is that this… Continue reading
Ana Blandiana, My Native Land A4 (Bloodaxe, 2014 [2010]). Trans. Paul Scott Derrick and Viorica Patea. by Matt MacDonald Coming to this collection as an outsider, to both the native language of the poems and… Continue reading
SAMUEL REILLY is a recent graduate of English Literature from Oxford University. He is currently based in Glasgow, where he works with contemporary art in a city-centre gallery, and continues to write poetry and… Continue reading
