POETRY MONTH: Caviar by Sarah Fletcher
intellectual poems that don’t become impersonal
Tag: poetry review
POETRY MONTH: Broken Sleep Anthology 2019
broken sleep’s second annual anthology
POETRY MONTH: 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
POETRY MONTH: Liver Mush by Graham Irvin
“People eat what they can. They love what can love them back.”
POETRY MONTH: Dreich #3
Today we’re (I’m) looking at another poetry magazine. I’m not quite sure if this one is a magazine or ifContinue Reading
POETRY MONTH: Acorn by Yoko Ono
is “art writing” poetry? / is “poetry” art writing?
POETRY MONTH: Bless The Daughter Raised By A Voice In Her Head by Warsan Shire
incredibly good popular poetry from Beyoncé’s collaborator
POETRY MONTH: Waiting Room by Poppy Cockburn
powerful, direct, dignified poems
POETRY MONTH: The Rink by Aaron Kent
poetry cannot exist outside of the world
POETRY MONTH: The Towns We Leave Hate Us Most by Aislinn Evans
excellent poetry & performance piece
POETRY MONTH: Lyme by Jared A. Carnie
some great love poetry surrounded by trepidatious discussion of someone else’s illness
POETRY MONTH: Produce Poetry Or Die. by Narada Voux Sanders
realising i read poetry looking for poets, not poems
POETRY MONTH: Rotten Milk by Karina Bush
latest chapbook from one of my favourite writers
POETRY MONTH: [partial reading from years ago of] Float by Anne Carson
a partial reading from 4/5 years ago, previously unpublished
POETRY MONTH: reviews of scott manley hadley
you been doing all this dope [blogging] / You ain’t had a chance to show ’em what time it is
POETRY MONTH: The Tinder Sonnets by Jennifer LoveGrove
a masterpiece of contemporary sonnetteering
POETRY MONTH: The Marketplace of Ideas by Stefan Mohamed
the Earth itself is a revolutionary anti-capitalist (funny poems)
POETRY MONTH: ANTHOLOGY 2018 by Broken Sleep Books
an excellent anthology from friend of the blog broken sleep books
POETRY MONTH: Bars Fight by Lucy Terry Prince
potentially significant if unexciting 18th century ballad
POETRY MONTH: poetry reviews from the vaults
before a month of all new all poetry reviews, check out a selection from the TotN vaults!
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
an excellent early 80s hybrid text with a distressing – and violent – context
Selected Poems by Marianne Moore
the building i live in got on fire in lockdown
If All The World and Love Were Young by Stephen Sexton
top prize-winning poetry and emotional toll of lockdown ekes in
The Beauty of the Husband by Anne Carson
i’m distracted
NDN Coping Mechanisms by Billy-Ray Belcourt
strong canadian poems
Baby, I Don’t Care by Chelsey Minnis
great book of pomes
Lift Every Voice, edited by Christine Taylor
little review of a strong anthology
of is by Aisha Sasha John
i read some local poetry
Most of my Heroes Don’t Appear On No Stamps by Ran Walker
brief comments on a collection of kwansabas
The Long Take by Robin Robertson
some notes on a gorgeous novel
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
welsh poetry, often wonderful, sometimes dry
Selected Poems by Stevie Smith
read some dated poetry
Hera Lindsay Bird by Hera Lindsay Bird
short review of a wonderful poetry collection
The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod
a fresh anthology that’s worth YOUR attention
Subsequent Death by Aaron Kent
who wouldn’t beg for a little more life?
Bad Boy Poet: LIVE TONIGHT IN DALSTON
BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT NOVEMBER 14TH 2018
Bad Boy Poet by Scott Manley Hadley
Reviewed by Karina Bush
Bad Boy Poet: Intimate & Al Fresco
reading some poems in the Spanish desert…
Bad Boy Poet by Scott Manley Hadley
Review by L. Tumbleweed Parker. CW: ableist language
Feast of Sapphires by Matt Nagin
find out what poetry i like and why i write about poopoo
Ossuaries by Dionne Brand
political poetry: what is it good for?
Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
why I owned but didn’t read this book for five years (anger, depression)
Remembering Oluwale: An Anthology edited by SJ Bradley
a powerful anthology of poetry and prose
Poem 66 by Susana Medina
a Wide Sargasso Sea for Lolita
Typhoid August by Sarah Fletcher
chapbook review that turns into me recounting my entire relationship with sex
Twenty-Six Factitions by Erik Kennedy
Scott Manley Hadley on the poetry scene
Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
some inappropriate teenage nostalgia
Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
it’s not love if u pretend they don’t shit
Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity by Ella Frears
good, serious, accessible poems
Triumph Of The Now 