Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics Articles
Review – Brilliant Corners by Nuzhat Bukhari, A Blood Condition by Kayo Chingonyi
How do we reconcile conflicting inheritances? Many poets of colour find themselves caught between two roads: the English lyric, whose focus on internal feeling can imply a disavowal of history, and the real histories from which today’s poets arise; histories bent by the home of the English lyric. The lyric and its most apparently ahistorical…
Posted in Blog 3 years ago by 
April Yee
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April Yee
Review: ‘Saffron Jack’ by Rishi Dastidar
Rishi Dastidar’s second collection is a chimera. At once a long narrative poem, a one-man play with modest stage directions, and a DIY manual for How to Set Up and Rule a Nation, the book is also written in the format of a legislative document, with numbered clauses sub-dividing into indented elaborations: 24.2. It was…
Posted in Blog 4 years ago by 
Stephanie Sy-Quia
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Stephanie Sy-Quia