Tag: Poetry

• The Happy Couple

  “Loneliness wasn’t having no one. Loneliness was the gap between what you hoped for and what you got.”

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  8th Dec 2024

  Book Review: Fiction

  Book review, book reviews, books, Fiction, Literature, Naoise Dolan, nb magazine, Poetry, reading, The Happy Couple, writing

• The Art of Coming Undone

  Christie Collins’s first full-length collection of poems, which includes artwork by Dutch artist Erna Kuik.

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  24th May 2023

  Book Review: Poetry

  Anthology, Independent Publisher, Poetry, quick read

• Inhale/Exile

  

  Poetry anthology by Abeer Ameer

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  25th Aug 2021

  Book Review: Poetry

  Abeer Ameer, Anthology, childhood, Inhale Exile, Iraq, poems, Poetry

• Surge

  “I am haunted by this history but I also haunt it back.”

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  3rd Dec 2020

  Book Review: Poetry

  British history, British Racism, history, Jay Bernard, LGBTQ+, New Cross, New Cross Fires, Poetry, Sunday Times, Sunday Times University of Warwick Young Writers Award, Surge, Young Writer Award 2020

• Tongues of Fire

  Poetry anthology by Sean Hewitt and one of the shortlisted books for the Young Writer’s Award 2020.

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  19th Nov 2020

  Book Review: Poetry

  Anthology, Poetry, quick read, Sean Hewitt, Sunday Times, Sunday Times University of Warwick Young Writers Award, Tongues of Fire, University of Warwick, Young Writer Award 2020

• More Than You Were

  Poetry anthology about loss, addiction and the death of a parent.

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  8th Nov 2020

  Book Review: Poetry

  Anthology, childhood, christina thatcher, Fatherhood, Fiction, more than you were, poems, Poetry, trauma

• 7 Ghost Books To Devour This Halloween

  

  7 of my favourite ghost books to get you in the spooky-spirit…

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  31st Oct 2020

  Round-Up

  Carmilla, Celia Fremlin, Emily Bronte, Featured, Fiction, ghost, Ghost Poetry, Ghost Walk, Ghostly Stories, Gothic, horror, Kate Bush, Kate Mosse, Novella, Oscar Wilde, Penguin Modern Classic, Poetry, quick read, Sarah Wragg, Sheridan Le Fanu, Shirley Jackson, Short Stories, The Canterville Ghost, The Cave, The Haunting of Hill House, The Winter Ghosts, Vampire Fiction, World Book Day 2009, Wuthering Heights

• Ghost Walk

  By Megan Thomas This is the new poetry collection from Sarah Wragg, and a suitably spooky read this Halloween season 🎃  Each poem reflects the fleeting but tangible experience of ghosts – or rather, how the living perceive the dead – in a different way. In some, the imagery is that of traditional ghost stories,…

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  9th Oct 2020

  Book Review: Poetry

  Anthology, ghost fiction, Ghost Poetry, ghost stories, Ghost Walk, Ghostly Stories, horror, Poetry, Sarah Wragg, Short Stories

• Soho

  Poetry on love, abuse, healing, sex, shame, and the stolen history of the queer community.

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  9th May 2020

  Book Review: Poetry

  Anthology, Book of the Month, LGBTQ+, london, Poetry, quick read, richard scott, soho

• Tomorrow’s Woman

  

  Every poetry anthology I read, I write a comment like, “I don’t read poetry that often BUT I actually really loved this”. Why?

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  24th Apr 2020

  Book Review: Poetry

  Anthology, Feminism, Greta Bellamacina, london, Motherhood, Poetry, Tomorrow's Woman