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Nature Tales For Winter Nights, edited by Nancy Campbell
As the nights draw in amid the endless rummaging for the thick socks and scarves, Winter is a time of year that not just embodies the colder months of the…
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Byron by David Ellis
Of all the poets from the Romantic period, it could be easily argued that Lord Byron would be one of the most recognisable names to a great many people. However,…
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Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain by Amy Jeffs
It only seems like a short while since the fantastic Storyland was released, but a whole year has passed and Amy Jeffs returns with a new book entitled Wild: Tales from…
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The Past is a Dangerous Driver by Neal Mason
Neal Mason is a mature poet who has been publishing collections of his work since the early 1990s and has appeared in many poetry magazines. I had not previously come…
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The Language of Bees by Rae Howells
I often wonder how difficult it is for writers to select which pieces of their work they will include in a collection. The burning question for them must be -…
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So, Stranger by Topaz Winters
So, Stranger is the third collection of poems by Topaz Winters and my first foray into her work, so wasn’t entirely sure what to expect, which in some ways creates…
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The Sun is Open
The Sun is Open is the remarkable and incredibly personal debut from Gail McConnell reflecting on her childhood in Belfast and the death of her father, who was killed by the…
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The Heeding
One of the privileges of reviewing books is that now and again a book comes along that genuinely speaks to you personally, says what you want to say, and in…
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Stranger in the Mask of a Deer
Set in the late Palaeolithic, writer, musician and filmmaker, Richard Skelton creates an ancient landscape in his new collection of poetry, Stranger in the Mask of a Deer, ethereal and…