Category: Reviews
Owen Lewis’s Field Light is reviewed in The Berkshire Edge
Joan Embree reviews Owen Lewis’s Field Light in The Berkshire Edge. “Field Light is an exquisitely rendered portrait of the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, created with Owen Lewis’s inimitable blend of singular poetry and prose. …
Sue Willis reviews The Stones of Lifta by Marc Kaminsky
The Stones of Lifta by Marc Kaminsky is reviewed on Sue Willis’s Blog site Books for Readers Issue 207: “Marc Kaminsky, the prolific poet, therapist, and student of life review, has a new book of …
Lightwood Magazine reviews The Stones of Lifta by Marc Kaminsky
Marc Kaminsky’s The Stones of Lifta is reviewed in Lightwood Magazine. “While most books of poetry address our inner lives through image and language, others hold up a mirror to the outside world. Marc Kaminsky’s …
Tiny Kites by Lucien Zell is reviewed in Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene
Lucien Zell’s new book of poems Tiny Kites is reviewed by Aiden Andrew Dun in Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene. I flew home— then I flew from home— having found my home is …
Norbert Krapf’s Indiana Hill Country Poems is reviewed in Indiana Author Awards
Norbert Krapf’s Indiana Hill Country Poems is reviewed by Edward Byrne in Indiana Author Awards. “Norbert Krapf deftly invites readers of his poetry to visit places personally important to him and to meet the people, …
Michael Templeton Reviews Christopher Smart’s Cat by Igor Web
Christopher Smart’s Cat by Igor Webb is not really about Christopher Smart, his cat, or the famous poem addressed to his cat. Christopher Smart’s Cat is a memoir, although I tend to believe that a …
J.R. Solonche’s book of poems True Enough is reviewed in the U.K. journal The Lake
True Enough by J.R. Solonche is reviewed by M.J. Iuppa: “Words— a pocketful of images; a collection of walks that become unapologetic poems. This is J.R. Solonche’s latest poetry collection: Truɘ Enough. “…Here it is/ … There you …
The Blue Canoe of Longing by Margot Farrington is reviewed in New Pages
Margot Farrington’s Blue Canoe of Longing is reviewed by Robert Bensen in New Pages. “We can go to Margot Farrington’s The Blue Canoe of Longing (as Seamus Heaney wrote of poetry at large) ‘to be forwarded within …
Michael Templeton Reviews Asylum Garden – after Van Gogh by Alan Catlin
I am loath to use a well-worn literary term to describe a working poet, but Alan Caitlin’s poetry keeps forcing the idea of imagism throughout much of Asylum Garden: after Van Gogh. Perhaps if we …
Pauletta Hansel’s Coal Town Photograph is Reviewed on Cincinnati Public Radio
Pauletta Hansel’s latest book of poems, Coal Town Photograph is given an audio review by Roberta Schultz on Cincinnati Public Radio WVXU. Pauletta Hansel is also the author of First Person, What I Did There, Tangle, and Palindrome.