Tom Rudd’s first poetry collection, i am a thing of rough edges, explores everything from mental health to grief, identity to LGBTQ+ activism
‘No Place for Hate’ – new poem from Andreena Leeanne for National Hate Crime Awareness Week
Organisers of #NationalHCAW announce they have commissioned a new poem by Andreena Leeanne, No Place for Hate, for National Hate Crime Awareness Week, which takes place from Saturday, October 10 to Saturday, October 17.
REVIEW: Books – Genre Fluid by Dan Webber
REVIEW: Books – Genre Fluid by Dan Webber
Scene from the Sofa – 5 minutes with… Alice Denny
Graham Robson catches up with the heart-driven poet, Alice Denny.
BOOK REVIEW: With Some Wild Women by Jill Gardiner
BOOK REVIEW: With Some Wild Women by Jill Gardiner
REVIEW: Books Reckless Paper Birds by John McCullough
These poems demand understanding and it’s this subtle sotto voice undertone to these poems which is the real triumph, alone they delight, together they enchant and whisper of the absolute triumph of imagination. The books left me breathless. Read it.
BOOK REVIEW: Wanting In Arabic by Trish Salah
Salah is furious and gentle, shocking and so,so tender it moved me, and I felt I didn’t understand some of her work. Always a powerful tool of the poet, to draw you back to their lathe of meaning and whittle some more of your mind away with their sharp edged observations.
BOOK REVIEW: No Fear No Shame by Alice Denny
This new collection of poems from Alice Denny, like herself, is slim but packs a punch. There is an essential contradiction in all Denny’s poems; like all poets she’s both startlingly intimate and ruthlessness private, exposing and hiding, showing and telling, letting us feel the throb of blood in her veins, the skipped heartbeats, see the flash of metaphor as it crosses her mind, feel the tear as it slides down her cheek and the shock of uncompromising unconditional love where there should be bitterness, anger or despair.
BOOK REVIEW: Ocean Vuong: Night sky with exit wounds
This book is a magical journey into the imagination and talents of Vuong’s mind and worth pursing for anybody interesting in poems which can change, more spells than sentences, they alter reality as we read them and leave us impressed and impressed upon by this astonishing young man’s collection of debut work.
This is a beautiful, challenging and softly stunning collection of writing and worth reading to remind ourselves of how universal are our feelings.
BOOK REVIEW: Upstream: Mary Oliver
Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labour, her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her, and the responsibility she has inherited from the great thinkers and writers of the past, to live thoughtfully, intelligently, and to observe with passion.
