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Recent reviews by the excellent Peter Riley and I notice the female poets reviewed or some have got very graphic. I strongly support realism but my concern is with regard to death and its actuality as being trendy. Or playing tough cop in a poetic sense to attract interest. 

I am no avoiding death guy but I would deplore a voyeuristic agenda by Sullivan to gain kudos. If any writer goes down that road of “shock jock” I would ask them to go the whole way to a Denis Cooper degree. Not slot in the awful horrors of death as a hook line in one’s poems to “shock”. The French do it better and their female poets don’t take prisoners. 

On birth I recommend Amanda Brady’s poems as opposed to the usual birth poems. Amanda is American but living in London. I like the way she deals with self doubt anxiety plus the mental side of the post birth process. 

There we are Neville. 

Best as always 


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On Monday, 19 August 2019, Peter Riley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

My  review of new books by eight British poets now up in The Fortnightly Review.

They are:  Hannah Sullivan, Janet Sutherland, Emma Bolland, Emily Critchley, Lucy Burnett. Angelina D’Roza, Martin Corless-Smith and Vahni Capildeo, with noted listings of more.

https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2019/08/summer-2019-poetry/

Also recently, seven new poems by Tom Lowenstein

https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2019/07/seven/

Also “Empyrean Suite”, eight poems by Fazi Karim, who died in May, fetched “from the afterlife”  by Anthony Howell.

https://fortnightlyreview.co.uk/2019/07/empyrean-suite/



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