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Reviewing ‘Circus’ by Colin Sutherill

I’ve just reviewed this new poetry collection for London Grip. ‘Circus’ has been published posthumously for friend and fellow Border Poet member, Colin Sutherill, who died suddenly in 2020. ‘Circus’ is available from Border Poets Press for £10 plus p&p. Please contact: theborderpoets@gmail.com Colin Sutherill was for 11 years a much valued member of Border Poets, a long-established group meeting on the Welsh borders. During … Continue reading Reviewing ‘Circus’ by Colin Sutherill

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HIGH NOWHERE reviewed on The Friday Poem

Reviewing in The Friday Poem, Maggie MacKay writes: ‘These are the sort of poems that Roger Robinson calls “empathy machines”.’ [In an interview with The Guardian in 2020, Robinson said “Poets can touch hearts and minds; they can translate trauma into something people can face. Sometimes there’s a cost for the poet to do that as it takes looking at the trauma right in the face and … Continue reading HIGH NOWHERE reviewed on The Friday Poem

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