Tag: Support a small press

• Book Review. Universal Credit by Mike Watts.

  

  it was always 
  cold radiators, 
  bruised fruit, 
  a worry for the rent. 
  

  I like the dedication ‘to inspiration, in all its forms’

  Mike Watts creates poetry in Universal Credit (Wild Pressed Books) from relationships, being anchored to the present in a low paid job, and not having much, with metaphors of being a millionaire or a bird taking flight, and the therapeutic nature of writing itself.

  ‘it can take a poem, 
  just one good poem, 
  to settle a storm, 
  bring calm to the fury,’ 
  

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  June 23, 2022

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• Book Review. History of Present Complaint by HL R.

  

  It was real. It was real. It was real to you. 

  Alternating narrative between the past and present, History of Present Complaint by HLR (Close to the Bone Publishing) is a raw, and visceral collection of poetry and prose on mental illness. Post Complaint // Dirty Dishes was my favourite poem/prose. Perfection, and something not being good enough, so I keep going at it, but then being unable to return something to its original state is something I have been trying to write a poem about and Dirty Dishes got exactly what I am trying to write.

  ‘it’s always going to be imperfect/tarnished/marred/bloody/imperfect’

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  June 17, 2022

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• Book Review. Light Perception by Beth O’ Brien.

  

  A New Use for Words
  
  I used to hide inside them, 
  use them as a way to feel ‘normal’
  and safe, 
  like a long sleeved jumper 
  or a familiar place
  but now I write them, 
  turn them into new phrases
  I wish I’d read somewhere
  when I was a child
  where the only blind people 
  aren’t old wise men
  or giant terrifying spiders.
  

  Light Perception by Beth O’Brien (Wild Pressed Books) is a chapbook of poetry on disability, having a visual impairment and the perceptions, and treatment they receive from other people and the need to pretend, or to fade into the background, and the vulnerability in kindness, and accepting help.

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  June 13, 2022

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• Book Review. Sin is Due to Open in a Room Above Kitty’s by Morag Anderson.

  

  I traffic thoughts around regret, arrive at the edge of an answer.

  Sin is Due to Open in a Room Above Kitty’s by Morag Anderson (Fly on the Wall Press) is a slight volume of poetry, which produced a sense of mystery and intrigue, writing of secrets, and religion, intimacy, violence and the darker side of human nature. Sin is Due to Open in a Room Above Kitty’s created images that made me think of a wet drizzling evening in November, or light spilling out from the crack underneath a closed door.

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  June 8, 2022

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