Rogue Strands

Sphinx Reviews is a project that has run alongside Happen Stance Press since 2006 (see its website here ). Founded by Helena Nelson and co-...

My OPOI review of Keith Hutson's pamphlet Troupers (Smith-Doorstep, 2018) is now up at Sphinx. Here's a snippet from its opening lin...

My OPOI review of Miriam Gordis' pamphlet Vinyl (Eyewear Publishing, 2018) is now up at Sphinx and you can read it by following this li...

If poetry pamphlets are your thing, Sphinx  has become a point of reference for the U.K. scene: its website is absolutely jam-packed with re...

I was delighted to read the other day that Sphinx poetry pamphlet reviews are open for business again (see here ). What's more, they...

There are many pitfalls involved in the transition from a pamphlet to a full collection, haste being prime among them. I discuss these dange...

Over at Sphinx, the latest batch of pamphlet reviews is nearly complete. However, the main p...

In our recent reviews of Luke Samuel Yates' pamphlet, The pair of scissors that could cut anything , over at Sphinx (see here ), both R...

My review of Degna Stone's Record and Play is now up over at Sphinx. You can read it here , alongside complementing and contrasting vie...

Conventional wisdom would have it that practitioners of contemporary verse should end their poems in such a way that their writing opens out...

"In spite of the risks involved in broad generalisation, let me start with a premise: while much of UK poetry seems to run scared of bi...

I'm very pleased to report that Sphinx has published a terrific set of reviews for Tasting Notes . Moreover, I'm extremely grateful ...

Following Prowein, which was terrific both in terms of wine and poetry ( Tasting Notes turned out to be a real success not just with my imp...

My review of Andrew Graves' pamphlet, Citizen Kaned (Crystal Clear Creators, 2012), is now up at Sphinx. You can read it here in the no...

A whole host of freshly baked reviews have just gone live over at Sphinx as part of Issue 20. It includes pieces on chapbooks by poets such ...

Sphinx has long been one of the few publications to focus on reviews of poetry pamphlets. Initially printed, it's been web-based for the...

The first reviews of a poet's first pamphlet are inevitably significant, so I was intrigued to read three of them all in one go over at ...

Sphinx 16 is now live at the Happenstance Press website. Specialising in reviews of pamphlet poetry, Sphinx provides us with a real feel for...

Reviews tell us as much about their author as about the books they're assessing, something that's made even clearer than normal by S...