Neal Mason is a mature poet who has been publishing collections of his work since the early 1990s and has appeared in many poetry magazines. I had not previously come…
I often wonder how difficult it is for writers to select which pieces of their work they will include in a collection. The burning question for them must be -…
So, Stranger is the third collection of poems by Topaz Winters and my first foray into her work, so wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, which in some ways creates…
The Sun is Open is the remarkable and incredibly personal debut from Gail McConnell reflecting on her childhood in Belfast and the death of her father, who was killed by the…
Many of us have dreamt of returning to nature and escaping the humdrum of city living, for Rebecca Schiller and her family this became a reality, taking up a smallholding…
One of the privileges of reviewing books is that now and again a book comes along that genuinely speaks to you personally, says what you want to say, and in…
Set in the late Palaeolithic, writer, musician and filmmaker, Richard Skelton creates an ancient landscape in his new collection of poetry, Stranger in the Mask of a Deer, ethereal and…
Following on from her celebrated collection of poems, Swims, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett returns to the waters once more with a new collection of poetry, Of Sea, a sequence of 46 poems,…
In Fifty Words for Snow, Nancy Campbell continues her work on the “changing landscape of the Arctic” and gifts us not only with the perfect Christmas present but a book…