Please find the most recent poetry reviews below.
- Review of ‘Highway Cottage’ by Ralf WebbRalf Webb – Highway Cottage (Penguin Random House, 2025) Ralf Webb’s second collection of poetry, Highway Cottage (Penguin Random House, 2025), is a richly populated space filled with family, friends and those local to the lands he returns to, which is the world of the West Country. The cover, with its twisting, blossoming apple tree… Read more: Review of ‘Highway Cottage’ by Ralf Webb
- Review of ‘Wing’ by Matthew FrancisMatthew Francis – Wing (Faber & Faber, 2020) One of the surprises of Matthew Francis’s poetry collection Wing is that the poet as an individual (the private man behind the public poet, if you will) rarely seems to reveal himself beyond the opening poem ‘Longhouse Autumn’; aside from the ventriloquising middle section (‘Micrographia’) in which… Read more: Review of ‘Wing’ by Matthew Francis