REVIEW: PEN KEASE’S ‘THIS SIDE OF THE SEA’

REVIEW: PEN KEASE’S ‘THIS SIDE OF THE SEA’

REVIEW: PEN KEASE’S ‘THIS SIDE OF THE SEA’     By Stella Backhouse Though it includes no poems on the subject, something about Pen Kease’s 2024 collection This Side of the Sea conjured up mental pictures of ploughmen, harrowing fields with horses under...
INTERVIEW: FIRE&DUST MEETS SUJANA CRAWFORD

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INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS SUJANA CRAWFORD     Here she is. Bobbling pigtails, chubby fists, a chariot of drunken legs. And here he is. A new crown of soft quills gauging the kilter of his reign, silky grass curtsying as he leads the way. Now she’s...
REVIEW: MARTIN FIGURA’S ‘THE REMAINING MEN’

REVIEW: MARTIN FIGURA’S ‘THE REMAINING MEN’

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