Issue 5 - Autumn/Winter '20 - Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal
This is the Autumn/Winter 2020 issue of Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, edited by Suna Afshan and Naush Sabah. It is the first issue with a substantial prose offering: robust and engaging writing on poetry, taking the form of essays, reviews, close readings of poems, and conversations. As ever, there is poetry from new and established poets.
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 Poems) • 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
Editors
Suna Afshan & Naush Sabah