For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
David Wheatley

From the October 2023 Issue

Burdens of a Nobel Laureate

The Letters of Seamus Heaney

By Christopher Reid (ed)

From the September 2023 Issue

On a Scottish Portrait

A Tale of Two Gordons

From the May 2023 Issue

Rhyming for England

Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry

By Andrew Motion

From the August 2022 Issue

Long Road to Briggflatts

Letters of Basil Bunting

By Alex Niven (ed)

From the May 2021 Issue

Sex was a Mystery to Him

Burning Man: The Ascent of D H Lawrence

By Frances Wilson

From the December 2020 Issue

Poet of Procrastination

The Selected Letters of John Berryman

By Philip Coleman & Calista McRae (edd)

From the September 2020 Issue

Ever Upward

On Seamus Heaney

By R F Foster

From the June 2020 Issue

Turning the Leaves

What is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life

By Mark Doty

From the October 2019 Issue

Hope Sings Eternal

The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century

By John Burnside

From the June 2019 Issue

The Trump of Modern Satire?

Peaches Goes It Alone

By Frederick Seidel

Girlhood

By Julia Copus

Counting Backwards: Poems 1975–2017

By Helen Dunmore

From the July 2018 Issue

Yours Severely

The Collected Letters of Flann O’Brien

By Maebh Long (ed)

From the June 2017 Issue

He Was Afraid of Cows

The Letters of T S Eliot, Volume 7: 1934–1935

By Valerie Eliot & John Haffenden (edd)

From the April 2017 Issue

If Soil Be Soul…

The Unaccompanied

By Simon Armitage

Scaplings, Star Jelly, and a Seeming Sense of Soul

By Michael Haslam

Inside the Wave

By Helen Dunmore

From the July 2016 Issue

Guided by Voices

The Poems of Basil Bunting

By Don Share (ed)

From the November 2015 Issue

On Form

Waiting for the Past

By Les Murray

40 Sonnets

By Don Paterson

Complete Poems

By R F Langley (Edited by Jeremy Noel-Tod)

From the March 2015 Issue

Thanks for Sharing

One Thousand Things Worth Knowing

By Paul Muldoon

Kim Kardashian’s Marriage

By Sam Riviere

Human Work

By Sean Borodale