Elliptical Movements

19/01/2026

Recent Reading January 2026: A Review

In This Burning World: Poems of Love and Apocalypse, Mary Mackey, Marsh Hawk Press, 2025, ISBN 9798987617762, $18.95 Becoming Altar: New and Selected Poems, Kyla Houbolt, Subpress, 2025, ISBN: 9781734130041, $20.00 Signal to Noise, Eve Luckring, Ornithopter Press, 2025, ISBN 978-1-942723-20-2, $18.00 not thingsbut the faded memory of thingsbubbling up from the mudsoftenedby great waving Continue reading

Book Reviews, Ecology, Poetry

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06/01/2026

Shy of the Squirrel’s Foot by Andy Martrich: A Review

Shy of the Squirrel’s Foot: A Peripheral History of the Jargon Society as Told through Its Missing Books, Andy Martrich, The University of North Carolina Press, 2024, ISBN: 9781469682518, Paperback: $24.95, Hardback, $99.00, eBook: $18.99 In ‘Corn Close’, her Epilogue to Andy Martrich’s Shy of the Squirrel’s Foot, Anne Midgette writes that Jonathan Williams, founder Continue reading

Book Reviews, Poetry
15/12/2025

Recent reading December 2025: A Bumper Yuletide Special

Midnight Textures, Steve Spence, Aquifer, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-0684861-0-4, £11.00 Safe Whispering, Peter Dent, Treadmill, 2024, no information available online Psalms, Robert Kiely, Distance No Object, 2025, £8.00 (UK) / £10 (EU) / £12 (USA/ROW) incl p&p How You Like To Be Alive, Catherine Kelly, Distance No Object, 2025, £8.00 (UK) / £10 (EU) / £12 Continue reading

Book Reviews, Henry Gould, Poetry

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21/11/2025

Broken Sleep Books Need Your Help

I got this in my inbox yesterday: A Difficult Update How You Can Help Us Keep Going Dear friends, I’m writing with some difficult news. We recently applied for long-term revenue funding through the Books Council of Wales, support that would have secured stability for Broken Sleep Books for the next five years and helped us Continue reading

Poetry
18/11/2025

Recent Reading November 2025: A Broken Sleep Special

Not Sealions but Lions by the Sea, Alec Finlay, Broken Sleep Books, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-917617-04-8, £14.99 / $20.99 / €17.99 The Ethics of Cats, Alice Kinsella, Broken Sleep Books, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-917617-12-3, £13.99 Introduction to Cloud Care, Laura Theis, Broken Sleep Books, ISBN: 978-1-916938-77-9, £12.99 Iron Lung, Jim Goar, Broken Sleep Books, 2025, ISBN: 978-1-917617-11-6, Continue reading

Book Reviews, Poetry

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13/11/2025

Pushcart Nomination

I was surprised to hear from David Harrison Horton that he nominated my ‘halocline’ for a Pushcart Award. David included the poem in issue 14 of his excellent ‘zine SAGINAW during the summer. You can probably still get a copy here: https://davidharrisonhorton.com/saginaw/ Those who know me will know that I’m not big on prizes, but Continue reading

Poetry
23/10/2025

Recent reading October 2025: Part 2

A Different Story, Amlanjyoti Goswami, Poetrywala, 2025, ISBN: 978-81-984437-9-3, ₹499Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2025, ed. Anne Michaels, House of Anansi, 2025, ISBN: 9781487013899, £14.00something happens, Stéphanie Chaillou, translated by Laura Mullen, Lavender Ink/Diálogos, 2025, ISBN: 97819569211502, $19.95Cassandra at point-blank range, Sandra Moussempès, translated by Carrie Chappell and Amanda Murphy, Lavender Ink/Diálogos, 2025, ISBN:9781956921465, $24.95 Amlanjyoti Continue reading

Book Reviews, Poetry

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15/10/2025

John Levy is the 2025 Shelley Memorial Award winner

John Levy is a long-standing supporter of this blog, and a very fine poet whose work I’ve reviewed here, here, here and here, has been announced as the 2025 recipient of the Shelley Memorial Award. The award is not a competition, but a recognition of an American poet of merit, and the recipient is selected Continue reading

Poetry
07/10/2025

Recent reading October 2025: A Review

Shady Library, Henry Gould, 2025, ISBN: 9781300052364, £4.64 The Gate, Henry Gould, 2025, ISBN: 9781257941216, £4.65 some presence, Charlie Ulyatt, self-published via Bandcamp, 2025, £3 More of How to Read the Bible, J-T Kelly, above/ground press, 2025, $6 Necessary, David Harrison Horton, Downingfield Press press, 2025, ISBN: 9781923513006, £9.99 Lives and Dies, David Miller, Knives Continue reading

Book Reviews, Henry Gould, Poetry

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22/09/2025

Two from Shearsman: A Review

Clio’s Ground: New and Selected Poems, Fergal Gaynor, Shearsman Books, 2025, ISBN: 9781848619654, £10.95 Buying the Farm (a georgics of sorts), Eliza O’Toole, Shearsman Books, 2025, ISBN: 9781848619821, £12.95 Fergal Gaynor’s Clio’s Ground: New and Selected Poem is the missing link from my roundup of books from this year’s SoundEye. As I mentioned in that Continue reading

Book Reviews, Poetry

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