When one considers the position of a lyric poet today, it is a strange time. On one side, there is the overwhelming popularity of the narrative mode in contemporary poetry,…
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Book Reviews
Ecopoetics: a Column First, consider this poem: Surprise by Michael Radich That plastic bug, thrust close, gave our little girl a startled fright! A busker ends his drumming; a burst…
Life in Suspension / La Vie Suspendue by Hélène Cardona Salmon Press, 2016 Reviewed by Alison Williams If a purpose of poetry is to transcend, then Hélène Cardona’s…
Editor’s Note: After we have published our first Roundtable Discussion on Poetics And Disability in early 2018 (which was followed up by our Roundtable Discussion on Deaf Poetics) we have received many e-mails, indicating…
FORGIVE THE BODY THIS FAILURE Blas Falconer (Four Way Books, 2018) Much has been written about the necessity and even the benefits of learning how to fail. Tragedy in the…
BIRNAM WOOD El Bosque de Birnam by José Manuel Cardona Tr. by Hélène Cardona Salmon Press, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-912561-18-6 The late José Manuel Cardona, star poet of Ibiza, scholar,…
The Heart’s Year Le coeur a ses saisons… May The treetops dance to a lively air. The crows are out, looking for trouble. The wind…
xamissa by Henk Rossouw Fordham University Press Reviewed by Keenan Colditz “In the city begin and begin again sleep’s graffiti” —Henk Rossouw xamissa, by Henk Rossouw, is a book length…
Fish Boy by John Gosslee Nomadic Press, 2018 Reviewed by Sam Leon In Fish Boy, John Gosslee has created a tiny contemporary art museum for exploring the relationship between him…
Katie Ford is a brilliant poet whose work has received wide acclaim for its music, and its range of emotional intelligence and spiritual depth. Author of several poetry collections, most recently…