Lilith Walks, Susan M. Schultz, BlazevVOX, 2022, SKU: 978-1-60964-420-8, $22.00 Meditations: December 2019 – December 2020, lyrical prose, Susan M. Schultz, Wet Cement Press, 2023, ISBN: 979-8-9883840-3-8, $18.00 Edinburgh: poems & translations, Ken Cockburn, The Caseroom Press, 2023 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-1-905821-35-8, £7.00 Christmas Poems, Ken Cockburn. The Caseroom Press, Winter 2023, no further info ..read more

Henry Gould’s memoir, which makes up the opening three quarters of Holy Fool is the story of a young man quite literally on a mission. Set in and around the early to mid 1970s, the memoir takes off from Gould’s escape from a mental hospital following a breakdown while studying in Providence and charts the ..read more

Brushwork, Eric Selland, Isobar Press, 2023,  ISBN 978-4-907359-44-7, £17.69 Duets, Iliassa Sequin and The Colour, André du Bouchet (Translated by Iliassa Sequin), Distance On Object, 2023, £15.00 the set Arbor Vitae, Maureen Alsop, Nauset Press, 2023, ISBN-13: 978-1-962890-00-7, $15.99 Doubly Stolen Fire, Robert Sheppard, Aquifer Books, 2023, ISBN: 978-1-7393462-2-5, £11.00 Eric Selland’s Brushworks is a ..read more

Selected Haiku 1933–1962, Sanki Saitō, trans Masaya Saito, Isobar Press, 2023,  ISBN 978-4-907359-43-0, £27.19 Sanki Saitō was one of the key figures in the New Rising Haiku movement of the 1930s and 40s, a movement that reacted against the mainstream of Japanese haiku at the time, a mainstream that put more emphasis on obeying the ..read more

Mattered by Tangents, Tim Allen, Contraband Books, 2023, £12.00 Like Now, J-T Kelly, CCCP Chapbooks + Subpress, 2023, $10.00 Chicatanas: Selected Poems, Mark Statman, CCCP Chapbooks + Subpress, 2023, $10.00 Extended Stay: Selected Poems, Ty Holter, CCCP Chapbooks + Subpress, 2023, $10.00 Preloved Metaphors, Rupert M Loydell, The Red Ceilings Press, 2023, £9.00 Tim Allen’s ..read more

To mark his 80th birthday, Brian Lynch is hosting a virtual festschrift for the unique Augustus Young, poet, translator, memoirist, coedited by Lynch and publisher Anthony Rudolf. Augustus Young James Hogan Contributors: Edmund Hogan; Ita Beausang; Patrick Hogan; Mary Hogan; A. De Selby; Brian Lynch; Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; Geoffrey Squires; Alannah Hopkin; Catherine Walsh; Ben Keatinge; Jim Mays; Marianne Mays; Matthew Gedden; Harry Gilonis; Bruce Ross-Smith; Billy Mills; Fergal Gaynor; Peter Jacobs;&nbs ..read more

Ƨ, Tom Blake, Red Ceilings Press, 2023, £9.00 EtC, Laura Mullen, Solid Objects, 2023, ISBN-13 978-1-7332323-2-6, $18.00 tentatives, Ellen Dillon, Pamenar Press, 2023, ISBN: 978-1915341082, £15.00 Fare Thee Well, Miss Carousel, Ellen Dillon, HVTN Press, 2023, ISBN 978-1838311841, £10.99 The Green Radius, Henry Gould, 2023, no publisher or price given World’s End, rob mclennan, ARP ..read more

Broken Glosa: an alphabet book of post-avant glosa, Stephen Bett, Chax, 2023, ISBN 978-1-946104-42-7, $21.00 Triangles, Marian Christie, Penteract Press, 2023, £8.00 Contemporaneous Brand Strategy Document, Christodoulos Makris, Veer2, 2023, ISBN: 978-1-911567-56-1, £10.00 54 poems, selected and new, John Levy, Shearsman, 2023, ISBN 9781848618909, £12.95 concrete in the parallelogram, Mike Ferguson, Gazebo Gravy Press, 2023 ..read more

Blood and Cord: Writers on Early Parenthood, ed. Abi Curtis, The Emma Press, 2023, ISBN: 9781915628152, £11.99 The 2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology: A Selection of the Shortlist, ed Gregory Scofield, House of Anansi, 2023, $19.99 It’s been a while since I had any anthologies to review, and now I have two very contrasting examples ..read more

Border Blurs: Concrete Poetry in England and Scotland, Greg Thomas, Liverpool University Press, 2022, ISBN: 978-1802077087, £90.00/£27.99 Greg Thomas’s Border Blurs is a long overdue study of the impact and role of concrete poetry on the turn away from the Movement and towards the modernist legacy that stimulated an explosion of interesting British poetry 1950s ..read more