REVIEW: UPTALK – KIMMY WALTERS (BOTTLECAP PRESS)
The poems are pacy, well-timed vignettes where the protagonist tries to bottle steam from the shower to throw at a lover… Continue reading REVIEW: UPTALK – KIMMY WALTERS (BOTTLECAP PRESS)
breathtaking flights of fancy that will give you the bends before undercutting these mercurial moments with a healthy dose of dark humour. These balloons have anchors. Continue reading REVIEW: BLACK JAM – MATTHEW HAIGH (BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS
She becomes the alpha and the omega, earth and firmament as we become willing travellers on her journey through the hills of Ireland and the drumlins of memory Continue reading REVIEW: CARNIVOROUS – MOYRA DONALDSON (DOIRE PRESS)
Some ask us how many beats our hearts have left. Others just cut to the core of all our fears, to the ‘kelp-nest of wires’ as her fifth born slumbers ‘tiny and certain’ Continue reading REVIEW: THE SAINT OF MILK AND FLAMES – KATE GARRETT (RHYTHM AND BONES PRESS)
