Confluence on The End
This slim volume of poetry is an intelligent and darkly humorous collection that touches its toe to the edge of an end that waits for all us. Turn to a…
Laurence Peddle on Dialling a Starless Past
Mike McNamara moved when he was eight, or more likely was moved, from Larne, County Antrim, Ireland to Newport, South Wales, where he lived in Halstead Street for at least…
The Buzz on Dialling a Starless Past
Here’s a dizzying, lyrical and emotionally frank collection of poems, from a surprising source – the frontman of veteran south Wales entertainers Big Mac’s Wholly Soul Band! An inquisitive and…
Free Verse – Poetry Book Fair
Come meet us at FREE VERSE - The Poetry Book Fair at Conway Hall, Holborn, WC1R 4RL Saturday 22nd Feb. 3 of our poets (Simon Cockle, David Van-Cauter & John…
The High Window on The End
In choosing what could be the spectacularly ill-advised collection title of ‘The End’ (‘God was I glad to reach …..’), Writer-Davies has set out his stool in terms of bravery before the reader has even opened the first page.
Sphinx Review on The End
This is a pamphlet that hits hard with its uncompromising title and gloomy cover image of an ancient church among headstones.
London Grip on The End
Both the title and the photograph of a graveyard on the cover leave us in no doubt about the subject matter of this pamphlet.
Pulsar Poetry on The Stock Exchange of Ideas
Gohorry is serious about the “exchange” in the title; clearly a man of wide-ranging enquiry and learning, he revels in exploring writers from many cultures and acknowledges their influence.
David Caddy on Dialling a Starless Past
Culturally, street wise and savvy, Dialling a Starless Past, echoes the waywardness, poverty and songs of a misspent life.
Anne Drysdale on Dialling a Starless Past
This is poetry without pretension, but not always an easy read. These are poems informed by a life lived as-it-came and genuinely rendered in retrospect with the craftsmanship and understanding that fifty years of reading and writing make possible.