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: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘WORKING CLASS VOODOO’

REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘WORKING CLASS VOODOO’

REVIEW: BOBBY PARKER’S ‘WORKING CLASS VOODOO’   WORKING CLASS VOODOO BY BOBBY PARKER OFFORD ROAD BOOKS ISBN: 978-1999930417 £10.00/64 pages     Reviewed by Stella Backhouse At the heart of Bobby Parker’s Working Class Voodoo is the affecting story of a sensitive...
REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘ONLY AIR’

REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘ONLY AIR’

REVIEW: STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN’S ‘ONLY AIR’ COLLECTION   ONLY AIR BY STEPHEN LIGHTBOWN BURNING EYE BOOKS ISBN: 978-1911570592 £9.99/32 pages Reviewed by Stella Backhouse   Mirrors generally assume a standing observer – a situation that, if you’re not...