Author: Kathryn Southworth

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Sofia, Reviews

Review: Fools’ Paradise by Nicholas Hagger

John Hunt Publishing (Alresford 2020). 154 pages. Pbk. £10.99. How to respond to the sorry saga of Brexit? The cover of this book presents the perfect metaphor in the poem by the 15th century German...

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Sofia, Poetry

Helen Thomas visits Ivor Gurney

He met me in pyjamas and a dressing gownbut there was nowhere in that bare room to sit down.I put my flowers on the bed, no vase –glass or pottery shards can sever arteries.He liked...

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Counting Backwards: Poems 1975-2017

It is lodged in my mind as the most poignant reading I ever heard: Neil Astley of Bloodaxe Books at the Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2017 reading the last poem by his recently deceased author,...

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Kathryn Southworth reviews The Last Parent

The Last Parent by Anne Stewart. Second Light Publications (East Preston). 2019. 96 pages. £9.95. This book includes a selection of Anne Stewart’s poetry since 2010 and a sequence of thirty poems on the poet’s...

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Sofia, Poetry

A Perturbation of Light

I was disturbed in the night by my granddaughter tip-toeing the corridor – no sound, no sign but a subtle change in the light through my door so slight her little body, so soft her...

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Sofia, Poetry

Dr Brighton

A strange trade under the banyan tree, in the pavilion's music room, beneath the painted leaves and organ pipes and where the copper dragon spreads webbed wings and spits his fire through murderous teeth over...

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Review: Selected Poems by John Heath-Stubbs

Selected Poems by John Heath-Stubbs, edited by John Clegg. Carcanet (Manchester 2018). Pbk. 112 pages. £8.99. This year is the centenary of John Heath-Stubbs’s birth and twelve years since his death. Never connected with any...

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Review: Sanctuary by Isabel Bermudez

Rockingham Press (Ware 2018), Pbk 64pp. £9.99. Isabel Bermudez was born in Columbia and came to England as a child. She has worked as a film maker, teacher and language tutor and her poetry has...

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Review: A Bright Acoustic by Philip Gross

Bloodaxe Books (Hexham 2017). Pbk. 94 pages. £9.95. Philip Gross is a prolific poet, winner both of the prestigious National Poetry Competition and the T.S. Eliot prize, whilst also writing in many other genres. He...

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Review: Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts

Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts. Cape Poetry (London 2017). Pbk. 75 pages. £10. When terrorists attacked the Manchester Arena they could hardly have expected to be answered by poetry. Yet it was Tony Walsh’s poem...

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