Poetry that investigates ‘taking’ in all its forms.
Tag: Poetry
Review: Tilt by Kate Lilley
Poems that are all about the hidden things.
Review: The Essential Emily Dickinson (selected by Joyce Carol Oates)
Strange, precise and elusive poetry.
Review: Winepress by Gabriela Mistral (translated by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Poetry that is elemental, grief-stricken, unearthly.
Review: The Wild Iris by Louise Glück
Poetry that forces clarity upon you about the cruelty and wonder of being alive.
Review: Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
A startling collection of poetry, prose-poetry and prose that resists literary colonisation.
Review: Nganajungu Yagu by Charmaine Papertalk Green
A beautiful, profoundly moving tribute to the relationship between mother and daughter.
Review: Crow by Ted Hughes
A fascinating and ugly collection of poetry.
Review: Rainforest by Eileen Chong
These are austere, still poems about the things embodied in words.
Review: The Lost Arabs by Omar Sakr
The Lost Arabs is a collection of cosmological, mystical poetry, a search for belonging and god in hell on earth.
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