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AUTUMN MAKES ME SING — The VOLE Autumn Anthology 2024
Neil Leadbeater reviews 'Autumn Makes Me Sing'
"... Kathryn Southworth remarks in her introduction that ‘whilst poetry is not history or biography, it bears witness to both’ This remark rings true for the poems in this anthology, none more so than the very powerful poem that won first prize, Janet Hatherley's ‘The light in his eyes’...
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Reading the anthology I was particularly struck by the nmber of poems written on unusual subjects. Sharron Green’s ‘10 Things a Crime Scene Cleaner Should Know’, Tina Cole’s poem about bottle tags, Christian Ward’s poem about a collector of doorknobs, Terry Jones on the subject of compost, Susan Jordan’s poem about Jane Austen being sculpted and Heather Moulson’s poem in which she imagines objects in a pantry that display human feeling. The inclusion of these poems, which differ markedly from the usual run of tried and tested preoccupations, makes for refreshing reading and is, for me, one of the highlights of this anthology.
— Neil Leadbeater in Littoral (Issue 32)
Read the whole review in the gorgeously produced online magazine here.
Neil Leadbeater is an author, poet, essayist and critic living in Edinburgh. His latest publications are 'Italian Air / Radiant Days' (poetry) and 'Falling Rain' (short stories), both published by Cyberwit.net (Allahabad, India).
"... Kathryn Southworth remarks in her introduction that ‘whilst poetry is not history or biography, it bears witness to both’ This remark rings true for the poems in this anthology, none more so than the very powerful poem that won first prize, Janet Hatherley's ‘The light in his eyes’...
[...]
Reading the anthology I was particularly struck by the nmber of poems written on unusual subjects. Sharron Green’s ‘10 Things a Crime Scene Cleaner Should Know’, Tina Cole’s poem about bottle tags, Christian Ward’s poem about a collector of doorknobs, Terry Jones on the subject of compost, Susan Jordan’s poem about Jane Austen being sculpted and Heather Moulson’s poem in which she imagines objects in a pantry that display human feeling. The inclusion of these poems, which differ markedly from the usual run of tried and tested preoccupations, makes for refreshing reading and is, for me, one of the highlights of this anthology.
— Neil Leadbeater in Littoral (Issue 32)
Read the whole review in the gorgeously produced online magazine here.
Neil Leadbeater is an author, poet, essayist and critic living in Edinburgh. His latest publications are 'Italian Air / Radiant Days' (poetry) and 'Falling Rain' (short stories), both published by Cyberwit.net (Allahabad, India).
