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“Paeany” succeeds in presenting individual poems of great merit while at the same time gathering them together to present a wide view of the poets daughter.  Every poem is meticulous and great care has been made in positioning the poems to present the overall narrative. Along side poems about her […]

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FOUR PORTIONS OF EVERYTHING ON THE MENUE FOR M’SIEUR MONET! by Penelope Shuttle Indigo Dreams Publishing ISBN 978-1-910834-21-3   Another excellent publication in the Indigo Pamphlets series, which is publishing some varied and imaginative new poetry, the only thing wrong with the series is that as soon as you have […]

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ONLY MORE SO by Millicent Borges Accardi Salmon Poetry ISBN 978-1-910669-28-0     Outstanding poems – On a Theme by William Stafford, If World War Two Had Ended in Germany the Same Over-night Way that Socialism Did, Almonds http://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=389&a=281

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A GAP IN THE RAIN by Barbara Cumbers Indigo Dreams Publishing ISBN 978-1-910834-01-5   Cumbers is an outstanding find, a poet of quality who looks at the world with an analytical eye, sees the processes that are occurring in the world around her.  She also brings insight from her career […]

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POEMS FOR A LIMINAL AGE    Edited by Mandy Pannett SPM Publications ISBN: 978-0-9927055-6-5 This anthology of poetry grew from an idea by Mandy Pannett, author of ALL THE INVISIBLES from the same publisher,  a previous Poetry Kit Book of the Month, to produce an anthology of poetry in support of […]

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LARK SKIES by Chester Poets Cestrian Press ISBN 9780 904448 450 This anthology grew from a Chester Poets project to engage with the poets of the WW1.  Each poet chose a writer from WW1 and wrote a poem inspired by them, and this together with a short biography of the […]

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AFTER THE SILENT PHONE CALL by Wendy Holborow Poetry Salzburg ISBN 978-3-901993-50-3   In this latest publication in the Poetry Salzburg Pamphlet Series the publisher has again selected a poet with outstanding individual voice.  In these poems Holborow identifies and evokes the solitary world we all inhabit at times, and […]

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  WILD GOOSEBERRIES OF HAILUNG by Frances Corkey Thompson Indigo Dreams Publishing 978-1-909357-67-9   Thompson explores the extraordinary resource of her fathers letters written at a time when he was a missionary in China.  With this inspiration she sets out to follow his tracks and in doing so produces a series of […]

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SHORT OF BREATH by Vivien Jones Cultured Llama 978-0-9926485-5-8   This collection of poems call on skills of observation and understanding that Vivian Jones has in abundance. The images are sharp the insights and juxtapositions outstanding and memorable. This is a collection of poems that once read will be returned […]

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