Reviewed by Edmund Prestwich.
For all Sarah Arvio’s obvious intelligence, culture, technical adroitness and articulacy, I struggled with this book. In the end I didn’t feel the struggle brought anything like enough reward.
My feeling of a fundamental aridity was at its most acute in Sono. The poem - a sequence of forty-two “cantos†[...]
Reviewed by Edmund Prestwich
Liz Almond’s new collection introduces us to a wide world, full of sensual pleasures but also of cruelties, pains and dangers which she suggests we must actively face and face down if we are to live life to the full.
“Rosita Rules the Roost†illustrates some of the strengths of [...]
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