In her newest collection, Ghost of the Fisher Cat, Afric McGlinchey has taken poetry to another level. Here, her poems are sequenced into a novella-like arrangement, grouped into sections where she has allowed characters and relationships to develop “[…] across a time-space continuum […]”. The poet fits approximately ten poems of great variety into each Read More
Ben Smith impresses his readership with colourful poems in his newest collection Sky Burials. His academic specialisation in Environmental Poetry is represented – playfully – throughout this entire collection. With this contradictory title, the poet does not only offer an oxymoron by endowing the sky with an earthly attribute, but also introduces a criticism of Read More
On picking up Glaciation by Will Stone, my first thoughts were of death and religion in an Ice Age setting. This was prompted by the ice-covered sculpture of Christ on the front cover, and a quotation from Percy Bysshe Shelley seemed to confirm this assumption, “The glaciers creep like snakes that watch their prey, from Read More
Those April Fevers is the perfect fit for anyone looking for a collection of diverse poems that is far from conventional poetry associated with continuous meter and schematic rhymes. Mary O’Donnell produces exquisite, elegant and colourful poems, open to any field or subject. This expansiveness is also represented in her approach to genres: not only Read More
