With reviews like these....
Sheenagh Pugh reviews 13 new poetry books in 2½ pages for Poetry Wales:
‘Clyde Holmes’ Featherpaths is a collection of poems about birds. I was hoping that eventually they would turn out to be about something else.’
‘Lloyd Robson has a CD, Shush, with, I think, both new material and extracts from Cardiff Cut. But I have to admit I am hopeless with this format. Listening to disembodied voices, and without a text, I couldn’t concentrate at all.’
‘I cannot get the hang of divorcing words from meaning, as I presume you must, to get anything out of [Ian Davidson’s At a Stretch]. I can get an on-line generator to do it in seconds; why do I need Davidson?’
‘Time and again, the same syntactical pattern until you want to scream at him to change the record. Unsurprisingly … the lines don’t flow; they sit on the page like suet pudding.’ [J R Griffiths: Mind Stains.]
And finally…‘John Alcock’s Clutching… amber is very much poetry of places and journeys: Ireland, Wales, the USA and Europe all crop up. His choice of words and images could be less predictable; there isn’t much to make you sit up … except for … the wrong reasons.’
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