Poetry and Book Reviews

ON BOOKS, POETRY AND POETRY FESTIVAL EVENTS (Online)

POETRY REVIEWS

Glasgow Review of Books

My Best Reads 2018  

My Best Reads 2017

My Best Reads 2015

Glasgow Review of Books:  2014

Snowlight and Sunlight: Tiger Facing the Mist by Pauline Stainer (Bloodaxe, 2013)

My Best Reads 2014

POETRY EVENT REVIEWS

Glasgow Review of Books  Edinburgh Book Festival, 2014: 

Jackie Kay 'Inside a Woman's Mind':  on 'Reality, Reality' short stories and a few poems from 'Fiere';

Sweet Potato and Callaloo: Poets of the Caribbean Diaspora;

Billy Collins: Just a Regular Fellow.

StAnza Guest Blogger

(Scotland's Poetry Festival, St Andrews)

March  2012 and 2013  See StAnza Blog

2013

What I'm Looking Forward to at StAnza 2013;

Sean Borodale workshop at Balmungo House; and Lucilla Sims, artist;

Sean Borodale, Gillian Clarke's StAnza Lecture and Liz Lochhead;

Douglas Dunn's workshop at Balmungo House and Jean Johnstone, artist;

Poetry Out of Line and by Design;

Nature Poetry and Ecopoetry;

Unmapped (Anna King and Rebecca Sharp) and Welsh Poetry.

2012

What I'm Looking Forward to at StAnza 2012;

Poetic Larceny: Kwame Dawes;

Tea, Cakes and a Chat with Jackie Kay; the Art of the Two Ruaridhs;

Stereoscopes and Dual Perspectives;

Was it All a Dream?