REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN’

REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN’

REVIEW: ANTONY OWEN’S ‘THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN’   THE UNKNOWN CIVILIAN BY ANTONY OWEN Knives Forks and Spoons Press ISBN:  978-1-912211-49-4 £18.00/115 pages   Reviewed by Fergus McGonigal   “My hardest battle is tending to a wound that keeps reappearing”...
REVIEW: VOYAGE INTO COVENTRY’S TWIN CITY

REVIEW: VOYAGE INTO COVENTRY’S TWIN CITY

POETRY, CORK, AND A LYING GPS: RAEF AND AYSAR’S VOYAGE INTO COVENTRY’S TWIN CITY By Prabhjot Kaur   The Cork-Coventry Poetry Exchange returned for its tenth year in August to celebrate the budding talent of its participating poets, a mutual heritage rich in...
REVIEW: DEBORAH ALMA’S ‘DIRTY LAUNDRY’

REVIEW: DEBORAH ALMA’S ‘DIRTY LAUNDRY’

REVIEW: DEBORAH ALMA’S ‘DIRTY LAUNDRY’ DIRTY LAUNDRY BY DEBORAH ALMA Nine Arches Press ISBN: 978-1911027416 £9.99/80 pages Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse For me, the turning point of Deborah Alma’s debut collection Dirty Laundry comes near the end. Until that point,...