POETRY BIRMINGHAM
Literary Journal
I S S U E 5
If community is what poets seek, let it be one that’s critical and resilient, that encourages them to feel grateful rather than victimised by having work read and written about seriously (even if unfavourably), and that challenges rather than defends the state of the art as it stands.
— Editorial, PBLJ5, Naush Sabah
Contents
Prose
Colin Bancroft on Robert Frost • Jonathan Davidson reviews These Numbered Days • Sasha Dugdale on Marina Tsvetaeva • Adrian B. Earle reviews Letters to America, Epiphaneia, and Honeyfish • Khaled Hakim reviews Saffron Jack, States of the Body Produced by Love, and How to Wash a Heart • Rupinder Kaur on Nirupama Dutt • Sara Kazmi reviews Cyanic Pollens and Bulbul Calling • Gregory Leadbetter reviews In a Free State: A Music • André Naffis-Sahely on Ribka Sibhatu • Rochelle Roberts reviews Three Books • Cuilin Sang reviews Antiemetic for Homesickness, 回家 Letters Home, and Moving House • Robert Sheppard reviews Stray Arts (and Other Inventions) • Serena Trowbridge reviews Dad, Remember You Are Dead and Veritas • Roger Robinson & David Wheatley in conversation
Poets
Latifa Akay • Colin Bancroft • A. K. Blakemore • Helen Bowell • Theodoros Chiotis • Jane Commane • Hannah Copley • Jonathan Davidson • Nirupama Dutt • Fatima El-Kalay • Chloe Elliott • Sarah Fletcher • Daniel Fraser • Dai George • Seán Hewitt • Katy Mack • Amit Majmudar • Nick Makoha • Cynthia Miller • André Naffis-Sahely • Sam Quill • Mark Russell • Ribka Sibhatu • Jack Solloway • Marvin Thompson • George Ttoouli • David Wheatley • Warda Yassin • Sidrah Zubair
