Author: Mary Michaels

Mary Michaels reviews Daphne Rock’s collection A Tenth of Hydrogen, praising poems that integrate geology, history and personal experience, including ‘Field Trip’, ‘Crawl Space’ and the title poem.

Mary Michaels reviews three pamphlets by Phil Poole, praising poems that mix wryness with observation, and discussing his poems on illness and dying written after medical investigations.

A short poem of an evening street in London in which washing, martins and a child all swoop and curve, until regular planes interrupt the pattern.

Mary Michaels reviews William Oxley’s poetry collection London Visions, discussing its literary London of coffee houses and writers, its echoes of Wordsworth and Blake, and its personal poems.

Mary Michaels reviews Kathleen McPhilemy’s The Lion in the Forest, poems on home, Ireland, Palestine and Iraq, praised for clarity, economy and complexity.