Elliptical Movements

The Bone Wine, David Lloyd, espresso, 2025, ISBN 978-1-7383154-5-1, $15 + S/H Unstoppable Utopia, Cassandra Moss, Wild Honey Press, 2025, ISBN 978 1 903090 63 3, $15.00 inc P&P The Word file I wrote this review is called Two Irish Poets, but as I worked away at it I started to question that title. On… Continue reading

Elle, a Verse Novel, Robert Sheppard, Broken Sleep Books, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-917617-47-5, £12.99 The Aureate Trophies of Profit & Loss, Stuart McPherson, Broken Sleep Books, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-917617-92-5, £12.99 While Robert Sheppard’s English Strain books were written in dialogue with the English sonnet tradition, his Elle, a Verse Novel bears no apparent relation to, say,… Continue reading

Previous, Peter Dent, High Tide Editions, 2025Hippogryphia: 36 Variables, Peter Dent, treadmill, 2019 Peter Dent’s Previous consists of five titled short prose poem sequences, each of five numbered sections of three lines of text. The poems are made up primarily of oblique observations of the world in a language that is simultaneously hermetic and transparent,… Continue reading

Paul Klee’s Table and Other Books: Poems 1955–1980, Minoru Yoshioka trans Eric Selland, Isobar Press, 2025, ISBN 978-4-907359-53-9, £22.50  Glasgow–Tokyo Line, James McGonigal and John Pazdziora, Isobar Press, 2025, ISBN 978-4-907359-54-6, £12.00  Floating Words, Yoko Danno, Isobar Press, 2025, ISBN 978-4-907359-55-3, £12.00  Regular readers will know that Isobar Press is the place to go for recent and… Continue reading

NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems (Volume 2), ed. Philip Rowland, Isobar Press, 2025, ISBN 978-4-907359-52-2, £12.00  Fog Bells: 8 Contemporary Turkish Poets, ed. Neil P. Doherty, Dedalus Press, 2025, ISBN PB 978191562933, €14.50 The first time I reviewed two anthologies together here, one of them was the first volume of the NOON one. You… Continue reading