My review of Alan Buckley's new collection, Still (Blue Diode Press, 2025), is now up at The Friday Poem. You can read it in full via this link, but here's a snippet to whet your appetite...
The coherent and cogent use of syllabics in English cannot ignore the natural stresses, the iambs and trochees, the anapests and dactyls – all surging and ebbing within a syllabic framework that offers a quieter music just below those stresses...
Rajani Radhakrishnan’s moving, intense No Way Home tells us what to expect
from its opening ‘Prologue’ poem, sub-titled ‘the poet as storyteller’: It
is su...
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