REVIEW: JONATHAN KINSMAN’S ‘WITNESS’

REVIEW: JONATHAN KINSMAN’S ‘WITNESS’

REVIEW: JONATHAN KINSMAN’S ‘WITNESS’   WITNESS BY JONATHAN KINSMAN BURNING EYE BOOKS ISBN: 978-1911570820 £6.99/36 pages   Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Witness, Jonathan Kinsman’s stripped-down pamphlet of just fourteen poems, is a work profoundly indebted...
REVIEW: NAOMI BOOTH’S ‘SEALED’

REVIEW: NAOMI BOOTH’S ‘SEALED’

WE ALL HAVE TO FACE OUR FEARS EVENTUALLY: a Review of Naomi Booth’s Sealed   Reviewed by Eve Volungeviciute   ‘That was the old magic. But we live in new times. I can’t depend on the old magic of skin, on the old secrets of healing. Our skin in a hex on us...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MATT DUGGAN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MATT DUGGAN

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS MATT DUGGAN WOODWORMHedgehog Press ISBN 978-1-9164806-2-9£12.00/72+ pages  “I’m not wiping sweat from my foreheadbut cobwebs from the metal ferns; I appear to be drunk on 23rd streethaving forgot the name of my hotel again; I see the...
REVIEW: JO BELL’S ‘KITH’

REVIEW: JO BELL’S ‘KITH’

REVIEW: JO BELL’S ‘KITH’ KITH BY JO BELL NINE ARCHES PRESS ISBN: 978-0993120107 98 pages/£9.99 Reviewed by: Stella Backhouse In the concluding lines of the title poem of this, her second collection, Jo Bell observes to those who are her Kith: “I am not who I think I...