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...
And so… 17 years after The Maker of Glass Eyes, we have Poems In The Key Of
Aardvark. It’s been strange, trawling through poems, some of which I’d
forgotte...
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