Poetry

Reviews of books of (or about) poetry.

Book review: ‘Women on Nature’ by Katherine Norbury (ed.)

100+ voices on place, landscape and the natural world.
Book review: ‘All Points North’ by Simon Armitage

Humorous memoir from the future Poet Laureate.
Book review: ‘The Fire of Joy’ by Clive James

Roughly eighty poems to get by heart and say aloud.
Book review: ‘The Overhaul’ by Kathleen Jamie

A fantastic poetry collection.
Book review: ‘After Nature’ by W.G. Sebald

Three long-form poems, best read as prose.
Book review: ‘Somewhere Becoming Rain’ by Clive James

Collected writings on Philip Larkin.
Book review: ‘Across the Land and the Water’ by W.G. Sebald

Selected poems, 1964–2001.
Book review: ‘Ness’ by Robert Macfarlane & Stanley Donwood

A haunting prose-poem (I think).
Book review: ‘Selected Poems’ by Kathleen Jamie

A highly enjoyable poetry collection.
Books by or about W. G. Sebald

A list of Sebald-related books reviewed on this site.