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Elliptical Movements

A blog by Billy Mills


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  • Two Pamphlets by Peter Dent

    Previous, Peter Dent, High Tide Editions, 2025Hippogryphia: 36 Variables, Peter Dent, treadmill, 2019 Peter Dent’s Previous consists of five titled short prose poem sequences, each of five numbered sections of three lines of text. The poems are made up primarily of oblique observations of the world in a language that is simultaneously hermetic and transparent,… Continue reading

  • Two Pamphlets by Henry Gould: A Review

    The Mousetrap, Henry Gould, 2025, ISBN: 9781105948671, GBP 4.67 Mayflower Table, Henry Gould, 2026, ISBN: 9781105781391, GBP 4.65 These two pamphlets from Henry Gould continue his ongoing counterpoint to the reality of politics in the USA today. The Mousetrap is subtitled Shield of Mnemosyne, Book 10. Regular readers will know that I’ve previously reviewed earlier… Continue reading

  • Several Isobars: A Review

    Paul Klee’s Table and Other Books: Poems 1955–1980, Minoru Yoshioka trans Eric Selland, Isobar Press, 2025, ISBN 978-4-907359-53-9, £22.50  Glasgow–Tokyo Line, James McGonigal and John Pazdziora, Isobar Press, 2025, ISBN 978-4-907359-54-6, £12.00  Floating Words, Yoko Danno, Isobar Press, 2025, ISBN 978-4-907359-55-3, £12.00  Regular readers will know that Isobar Press is the place to go for recent and… Continue reading

  • Two More Anthologies: A Review

    NOON: An Anthology of Short Poems (Volume 2), ed. Philip Rowland, Isobar Press, 2025, ISBN 978-4-907359-52-2, £12.00  Fog Bells: 8 Contemporary Turkish Poets, ed. Neil P. Doherty, Dedalus Press, 2025, ISBN PB 978191562933, €14.50 The first time I reviewed two anthologies together here, one of them was the first volume of the NOON one. You… Continue reading

  • A bit of an announcement, nothing too dramatic

    I just wanted to briefly explain a bit of a change in approach here. The main thing is that I’m moving away from the monthly ‘recent reading’ roundups towards more focused reviews: single books or multiple titles by the same poet/press; linked books; etc. If you look at the last four posts, I’ve done two… Continue reading

  • The Matter with Wales: Two Books

    Shared Origins/A collaboration between three poets, Mike Jenkins, David Lloyd, and David Annwn, The Seventh Quarry Press, 2025, ISBN: 9781919610085, £6.99 Giraldus Redivivus, John Goodby and David Annwn, Incunabula Media, 2025, £12.00 The concept behind Shared Origins is both simple and intriguing. Take three poets who started their writing careers together as students in the… Continue reading

  • Geoffrey Squires in conversation with Fergal Gaynor: A Review

    Geoffrey Squires in conversation with Fergal Gaynor, LegalHighsPress, 2025, £4.00 This fascinating little book is a record of a conversation carried out by email over a number of years, with half a dozen Squires poems dotted through it, in order of original publication. The conversation ranges across the body of Squires’ work, both original and… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Augustus Young

Beal Festival

CELT: Irish history, literature and politics

Chapbooks of the Mimeo Revolution at Poets House

Coracle Press

David Annwn – Celtic Eclectia

David Bremner

Dorothy Richardson Online Exhibition.

Dorothy Richardson Society

Fife Psychogeographical Collective

Intercapillary Space

Jacket

Journal of Ecocriticism

Landscapism

Limnal City

Longbarrow Press

Maurice Scully

Michael S. Begnal

Modernist Journals Project

Museum of Thin Objects

Norman Nicholson Society

Oystercatcher Press

Pages – Robert Sheppard

Place: fieldnotes

Pocketbook – Judy Kravis

Psychogeographic Review

THE JOURNAL some words for living locally Erica Van Horn