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REVIEW: THE BOWER – CONNIE VOISINE (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS)

September 28, 2020 by Alex Smith

REVIEW: THE BOWER – CONNIE VOISINE (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS)
The daughter’s eyes are a wonderful vehicle fully exploited by the poet yet never to the point of exhaustion. That childish brio drinks in the wonders of flags and drums and studiously ignores the bottle of urine at a sectarian march.

Categories: BOOK REVIEWS • Tags: bower, love, poetry, the poetry question, university of chicago

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REVIEW: UPTALK – KIMMY WALTERS (BOTTLECAP PRESS)

October 22, 2019 by Alex Smith

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…

Categories: BOOK REVIEWS • Tags: #powerofpoetry, beauty, life, love, poetry, Poetry Question, poetryquestion, power of poetry, review, small press, the poetry question, TPQ5, words

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REVIEW: BLACK JAM – MATTHEW HAIGH (BROKEN SLEEP BOOKS

August 9, 2019 by Alex Smith

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.

Categories: BOOK REVIEWS • Tags: artificial, black jam, clutter, death, Flowers, poetryquestion

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REVIEW: CARNIVOROUS – MOYRA DONALDSON (DOIRE PRESS)

August 7, 2019 by Alex Smith

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

Categories: BOOK REVIEWS • Tags: alpha omega, irish poetry, life, love, Memory, poetry, Travel

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REVIEW: THE SAINT OF MILK AND FLAMES – KATE GARRETT (RHYTHM AND BONES PRESS)

July 31, 2019 by Alex Smith

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’

Categories: BOOK REVIEWS • Tags: joan of arc, lessons, poetry, saint

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