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Diana Hendry’s latest collection The Guest Room has received a wonderful review in London Grip magazine.

“works vividly at every level […]”, writes James Roderick Burns, “The seduction, and the threat, of the outside world – in essence, the wilderness – runs like a stream through The Guest Room. In contrast to the many domestic settings of home, childhood, adult life, it insists on its own powers, harnessed by Hendry but still delightfully out of control. […] a book both rich in meaning and resistant to easy readings.”

Read the full review on the London Grip website for a full insight into this brilliant new collection, which can be ordered via our website here

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Elizabeth Cook’s collection When I Kiss the Sky has received a rave review by Ed Reiss in Stand magazine (Stand 233, 20(1) May – July 2022). 

“Poetry as flight, song, life, beauty, otherness.”

“Some of Cook’s poems touch on deep mysteries as lightly as Yeats’s long-legged fly.”

“Time and again Cook’s poems sparkle with a word which is risky but exact”

“Cook’s poetry is Heaney-like in being open to the legendary and the marvellous whilst remaining sensuous and grounded. The balance of the collection inclines from earlier poems of innocence to later ones of loss and grief. Throughout, these are ‘springy’ poems of compassion, praise and sustenance.”

Find out more and order a copy of When I Kiss the Sky here