This was a nice, little, slim collection, containing several poems I already loved, including some evergreen favourites by the likes of Yeats (When You Are Old) and Wilfred Owen (Dulce…
Early Twentieth-Century Poetry (Penguin Popular Poetry), edited by David Wright
Transformations by Anne Sexton
The collection consists of retellings of fairy tales, and it’s hard not to think of something like Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber while reading it. There’s a similar sense of…
Ariel by Sylvia Plath
This is first time I’ve properly sat down and read Ariel as a complete collection, and I wasn’t surprised by how immediately it clicked for me and how much I…
Surge by Jay Bernard
Surge by Jay Bernard is a haunting yet deeply life-affirming collection of poetry. It responds to the tragic events of the 1981 New Cross Fire in London: a birthday party…
maybe ill call gillian anderson by Rhian Elizabeth
I love reading poetry collections, but they feel harder to review than novels! This poetry collection was published on 31st May 2025 by Broken Sleep Books: a working class publisher all…
Woman Without Shame: Poems by Sandra Cisneros
Funny, powerful, tragic, visceral, intelligent, lively…. Just some of the words I’d use to describe these poems. Of House on Mango Street fame, Cisneros is a versatile poet and storyteller,…