Inconegro by D.S. Marriott

Last year I came across this book of poetry and hard time putting it down. On reading the back cover I learned that its author, D. S. Marriott (right, photo from Salt Publishing), is the same person as the David Marriott a 40-something (b. 1963-) Briton of Jamaican parentage, who published the [...]

Alan West reviews Valeria Melchioretto?s The End of Limbo in Stride Magazine

For such a modest work, the pleasure and depth that it contains far outwiegh the appearance.

The End of Limbo is packed full of images that are extravagant and bizarre whilst remaining honest and accessible.

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Frieda Hughes selects ?Housewife? from Angela Readman?s Strip in The Times

Estranged days

Frieda Hughes: Monday Poem

Time, routine and daily separation have eroded the couple?s trust and togetherness ? and the wife?s sense of self

In this poem the minutiae of the housewife?s day, the mundane, the seemingly unimportant, indicate the boundaries of a life that have been changed by her [...]