Author: Kathleen McPhilemy

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Sofia, Reviews

Review: Music at Midnight by John Drury

Kathleen McPhilemy reviews Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert by John Drury, Allen Lane (London 2013) Hbk. 416 pages. £25. Towards the end of Music at Midnight, John Drury explores the...

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Sofia, Poetry

Pulse

Hoofbeat heartbeat metric in the veins where is the pulse that drove me on half-leaping half-lurching from line to line fetching up against a cluster of consonants freed by a sudden unasked for rhyme anger...

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New Year Snow

Light snow is forecast for fifteen hundred hours skeins of geese unravel in the sky and right on cue, so light you might not know, snow dusts your head and shoulders. Spiky trees extend their...

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Stateless

The brown-faced boy in the garden is shooting down cherry-blossoms; like tiny perfections of marble they fall to the ground and shatter. The bare-foot boy in the garden has walked here on a path of...

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Graceline

Jane Duran’s latest collection, Graceline, is a quiet book. The poet returns to her childhood in an attempt to place herself in her personal and wider history by returning to her childhood journey from New...

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Poetry: Poppy in a Storm-struck Field

Lynne Wycherley is a poet of substance and her third collection is to be welcomed. Wycherley describes herself as ‘eco’ and her poetry combines a concern for the world, or even the universe, with a...

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A Compression of Distances

Daphne Gloag’s work is new to me but I was impressed by her technical skill. She acknowledges Mimi Khalvati as a mentor and this influence can be seen in the movement of her lines and,...

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