St Pancras Station then was not a pleasurable placeof grand departures, a destination in itself,just somewhere that East Midlandersmust go to catch a packed train home. She was already at the table, facing the engine,folder...
A Century of Poetry: 100 poems for searching the heartedited by Rowan WilliamsSPCK (London 2022) Hbk. 375 pages. Rowan Williams, for ten years Archbishop of Canterbury, is learned and remarkable; academic theologian, literary critic, linguist...
The Fox, the Whale and the Wardrobe by Dónall Dempsey. Dempsey & Windle (Guildford 2023) Pbk. 119 pages. £10.99. This collection, Dónall Dempsey’s sixth, is dedicated to ‘my Uncle Mikey, the treasure trove of my...
A review of In search of Julian of Norwich by Sheila Upton. Darton, Longman and Todd Ltd (London 2019). Pbk. 94 pages. £8.95. Many readers will first have encountered Julian of Norwich through the famous...
Hearing Eye (London 2022). Pbk 72 pages £9. Martina Thomson died in 2013, aged 88, leaving many unpublished poems. This book has been put together as an act of love by members of the poetry...
Littoral Press (Lavenham 2022). Pbk 92 pages £9. Back Country is Kathleen McPhilemy’s fourth collection of poetry, a distillation of twelve years of writing. Born and brought up in Belfast the author has also lived...
Kathryn Southworth reviews Saying it with Flowers by Peter Phillips. Ward Wood Publishing (London 2022) Pbk 74 pages £í9.99 Peter Phillips has published six previous volumes of poetry, this title having its genesis in a...
Kathryn Southworth reviews Collected and New Poems by David PermanRockingham Press (Ware 2021). Pbk 208 pages. £14.99. David Perman is best known as a supporter of poetry, founder of the Ware group of poets and...
Kathryn Southworth revisits The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James The nearest I came to wanting to murder my parents was on February 10th 1968 at about 9.40 in the evening. I know this...
the clarity of distant things by Jane Duran. Carcanet (Manchester 2021) Pbk 103 pages. £11.99. Jane Duran was born in Cuba and raised in the USA and Chile. Her father was a comandante in the...
