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fourportions — 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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1 Oct, 2016 in Book by admin

t_onlymoreso — 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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27 May, 2016 in Book by admin

yearsago — Years Ago You Coloured Me by J.S. Watts published by Belfast Lapwing ISBN 978-1-910855-15-7

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3 May, 2016 in Book by admin

http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-rain-drops-window-color-detail-photography-image32716629 — 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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1 Mar, 2016 in Book by admin

Liminal — 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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6 Dec, 2015 in Book by admin

larkskies — 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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9 Oct, 2015 in Book by admin

silent — 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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8 Aug, 2015 in Book by admin

untitled — 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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7 Jun, 2015 in Book by admin

Short-of-Breath-Front-Cover-031114-187x300 — 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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5 May, 2015 in Book by admin

FamiliarsCover — FAMILIARS by Linda Rose Parkes Hearing Eye ISBN 978-1-905082-73-5 In her third collection Parkes produces poems that burrow into everyday relationships between people and animals and the world they both inhabit. The world that Parkes reveals is a place of symbiosis and, as the title reflects, reliance on others […]

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6 Apr, 2015 in Book by admin