As is sadly always the case, it’s been a while since I’ve posted (but I’ve been BUSY – my first collection, Nightlight, is finally out in the world and there have been lots of lovely readings and events!), so forgive the lateness. Here are the roundups! Again, these are my favourites of what I read in the given timeframe.

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Poetry Roundup #8: July 2022 – Dec 2022

Highly Recommended:
The Singing Hollow by Diarmuid Fitzgerald (Alba)
The Bare Thing by Len Lukowski (Broken Sleep)
The Islands of Chile by David Nash (fourteenpoems)

Roundup Pick:
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson (Cape) — (heart-wrenching perfection. I was disappointed in the sequel though)

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Poetry Roundup #9: January 2023 – June 2023

Highly Recommended:
A Thousand Sparks by Diarmuid Fitzgerald (Alba)
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time by Marie Howe (Norton)
A To B by Gerry McGrath (Carcanet)
Island and Atoll by Jane Robinson (Salmon)
Torso by Robert Hamberger (Redbeck)
A Pooka in Arkansas by Ed Madden (Word Works)

Roundup Pick: 
Say, Spirit: Selected Sonnets from Michelangelo Buonarotti, translated in Three Voices by Alex Cocker (Girasol) —(absolutely stunning and essential!)