I was drafting this review when the news came that Matthew Sweeney had died on August 5th. I’d like to think of him, poet with a dried sunflower in one buttonhole and a dwarf red tulip in the other (as…
Jo Burns - Circling for Gods (Eyewear), £6 John Challis - The Black Cab (Poetry Salzburg), £6 Hera Lindsay Bird - Pamper Me to Hell & Back (Smith/Doorstop), £7.50 Jo Burns’s debut pamphlet, Circling for Gods, skirts across the seas…
The description ‘compulsive reading’ rarely applies to a poetry collection, no matter how well written, so it’s a welcome surprise to find a book that’s hard to put down until every poem is read. Martina Evans has achieved this with…
A Selected Poems is often a good way to assess the development of a poet, to see both where they have come from, and to see how they have developed. This is especially true of this selection, Rough Breathing. Gilonis…
Martyn Crucefix Reviews Vahni Capildeo, Sean O'Brien and Alice Miller Vahni Capildeo, Venus as a Bear (Carcanet Press, 2018) Sean O’Brien, Europa (Picador Poetry, 2018) Alice Miller, Nowhere Nearer (Liverpool…
This book begins with the gentle image of deer pacing into a city, and closes with a desperate echo of Goethe’s ‘More light!’ The deer disturb our notions of what city existence may be – elsewhere feral children or urban…
Magma Poetry in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh Read more about the collaboration here: Poets and Filmmakers: from Page to Screen Pegasus in the Lab Film Poem by Marios Lizides after a poem by Ginny Saunders …
Magma Poetry in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh Read more about the collaboration here: Poets and Filmmakers: from Page to Screen Of the Daughter who Spoke Film-Poem by Simon Ray after a poem by Kristi Carter…
Magma Poetry in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh Read more about the collaboration here: Poets and Filmmakers: from Page to Screen Anyone Can Buy a Seat in the Cinema Film poem by Maggie Clark after…
Magma Poetry in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh Read more about the collaboration here: Poets and Filmmakers: from Page to Screen The Wanderers Film Poem by Ted Fisher after a poem by Aoife Lyall …
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