Reviews of poetry

Two New Collections
Reviews of new editions of the collected poems of two giants of British poetry - Anne Stevenson and Norman MacCaig - normally a reason to be cheerful about poetry and poetry publishing.
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All the Poems of Muriel Spark
Review of Muriel Spark's collected poems, published in 2004.
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Poems for Readers
Reviews of Kathleen Jamie's The Tree House, Jackie Kay's Life Mask and Roderick Watson's into the blue wavelengths.
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Singing Lucifer and Other New Poetry
Reviews of new poetry collections by Paula Jennings, Alison Brackenberry, John Burnside, Mark Doty and Alan Spence. He also looks at the second issue of Fras, an occasional literary journal.
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The Lure of Willie Dunbar
Reviews of Dilys Rose's Lure, Edinburgh Review 114 and William Dunbar, 'the Nobill Poyet': Essays in honour of Priscilla Bawcutt, edited by Sally Mapstone.
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For the Islands I Sing
To celebrate the publication of the Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown, Textualities surveys the writing career of this great Orcadian writer.
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Without A Backward Glance
Review of Without A Backward Glance: New and Selected Poems, a selection of poetry by Ron Butlin.
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Angels and Babes
Reviews of Eliza's Babes, edited by Robyn Bolam, and Modern Women Poets and Consorting with Angels, both edited by Deryn Rees-Jones.
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Poetry Roundup
Reviews of A.C. Clarke's The Gallery on the Left, the poetry magazine Fras 3, Anita Govan's Jane, Jorie Graham's Overlord, and Norman Kreitman's Casanova's 72nd Birthday.
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Travelling Songs
Michael Lister follows the trail of wandering poets in his reviews of Rattlesnake Road by Tom Bryan, Tweed River edited by Ken Cockburn and James Carter, Bad Shaman Blues by W.N. Herbert, Chagall Takes a Fall by Thom Nairn, The Way Words Travel by Morelle Smith, and Ezra Pound in His Time and Beyond by James Rossa.
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Marion Angus, Singin Lass
Review of The Singin Lass, the collected poems of Marion Angus (1865-1946). The anthology includes a substantial biography of Marion Angus and extracts from her prose and letters.
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Apollos of the North
Review of Apollos of the North, a collection of translated versions of poems by the all but forgotten Scots Renaissance writers George Buchanan and Arthur Johnston.
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Two Pamphlet Publications
Reviews of Smoke: A Poem Cycle by Jenni Daiches and the literary magazine Fras 5.
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Sing Saucy Muse
The Roman dialect sonnets of Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli have been praised for their realism and vibrancy and enjoyed for their vulgarity and cynicism. MICHAEL LISTER analyses a new translation by sonneteer Mike Stocks.
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Three Interesting Collections
Reviews of poetry collections by William Soutar, Tessa Ransford Margaret Gillies Brown and Kenneth C. Steven.
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That Other Universe
Reviews of Today Tomorrow, a collection of George Bruce's Work; The Tip of my Tongue by Robert Crawford, and John Duffy's The Constancy of Stone.
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Women and Brambles
Reviews of Picking Brambles by Des Dillon, Modern Scottish Women Poets by Dorothy McMillan and Michael Byrne, and issue 102/3 of Chapman.
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A Box of Gems
Reviews of two books edited by Duncan Glen, A Memory of Fields by Mark Ogle, Renfrewshire in Old Photogrpahs, The Jewel Box - Contemporary Scottish Poems and Spilt Colours by Dorothy Alexander.
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The Abbot of Skellig Michael
Reviews of Dead Readhead by Tracey Herd, Gerry Loose's Eitgal and Today Tomorrow by the late George Bruce.
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Evolving Mind and Sense
Review of A Feather on a Finger, a collection of poems by the late Matthew Ewart.
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