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‘The Keelie Hawk’ by Kathleen Jamie

Book review: ‘The Keelie Hawk’ by Kathleen Jamie

Poems in Scots.

Published 20-Mar-2025
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Poetry Tags: reviews
Wonder: the Natural History Museum poetry book

Book review: ‘Wonder’ by Ana Sampson (ed.)

The Natural History Museum poetry book.

Published 31-Dec-2024
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Poetry Tags: natural history museum, reviews
‘Where the Road Runs Out’ by Gaia Holmes

Book review: ‘Where the Road Runs Out’ by Gaia Holmes

An enjoyable, comprehensible poetry collection.

Published 30-Sep-2024
Filed under: Nonsense Genres: Poetry Tags: reviews
‘Days Like These‘ by Brian Bilston

Book review: ‘Days Like These’ by Brian Bilston

An alternative guide to the year in 366 poems.

Published 29-Dec-2023
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Poetry Tags: reviews
‘Unrecounted’ by W.G. Sebald and Jan Peter Tripp

Book review: ‘Unrecounted’ by W.G. Sebald & Jan Peter Tripp

Enigmatic Sebaldian poetry.

Published 19-Jul-2023
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Poetry Tags: reviews, sebald
‘A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year’ edited by Jane McMorland Hunter

Book review: ‘A Nature Poem for Every Night of the Year’ edited by Jane McMorland Hunter

A poetry anthology.

Published 28-Dec-2021
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Nature Writing, Poetry Tags: reviews
‘The Heeding’ by Rob Cowen & Nick Hayes

Book review: ‘The Heeding’ by Rob Cowen

Astonishingly good poetry collection.

Published 03-Jun-2021
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Nature Writing, Poetry Tags: reviews
‘The Fire of Joy’ by Clive James

Book review: ‘The Fire of Joy’ by Clive James

Roughly eighty poems to get by heart and say aloud.

Published 24-Jan-2021
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Poetry Tags: reviews
‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James

Book review: ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James

Collected writings on Philip Larkin.

Published 01-Jul-2020
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Biography/Memoir, Poetry Tags: reviews
‘Ness’ by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood

Book review: ‘Ness’ by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood

A haunting prose-poem (I think).

Published 08-Dec-2019
Filed under: Uncategorised Genres: Nature Writing, Poetry, Sebaldian Tags: reviews, robert macfarlane

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