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Leafe Press was launched at a reading in Nottingham in 2000 and has published a wide range of poetry. Editor: Alan Baker
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"In the haunting world of Kelvin Corcoran’s language the names of the Chorus of Orphans are ‘whispered along the migrant routes.’"

Ian Brinton reviews "Under Tainaron" by Kelvin Corcoran:

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November 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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"What I love about this work is the way in which a combined interest in art and science can suggest the interconnectedness of things and provide a rich foundation for poetry..."

Steve Spence reviews Elena Brake:

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November 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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"The collection is extremely powerful and leaves one with the question as David Caddy puts it ‘Can the land afford a farm’ or ‘has the farm already been bought’."

Litter reviews "Buying The Farm" by Elize O'toole, pub.@ShearsmanBooks :

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October 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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New from Leafe Press: "The Moral Theology Of The Devil / Clothed With The Sun" by Linda Kemp". 38 pages. £9.00

"Seeded from Thomas Merton’s contemplations, this open-ended text invites the reader into participation in the creation of meaning."

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October 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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September 24, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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"the word haunted comes to mind as in relation to memory and re-creation of the past"

Steve Spence reviews "Concrete" by John Philips:

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August 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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"And Kernan does not ignore the paradox that must strike every reader of Schuyler, that is how someone with such evident behavioural issues wrote the poems that he did."

Martin Stannard reviews the new biography of James Schuyler, pub. @fsgbooks.bsky.social‬:

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August 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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"There’s an eye for observatory detail within this work that puts in mind the poetry and writings of James Schuyler"

@dradny.bsky.social‬ reviews "Silk Work" by Imogen Cassels, pub. Prototype Press:

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June 23, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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"Paul Rossiter’s monumental fifty-year collection of poems provides us with a memento written by ‘A passing traveller’"

Ian Brinton reviews “Passages, Poems 1969-2019” by Paul Rossiter:

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April 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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"These texts take a hard look at the world we live in as many people are forced to see it; from behind barbed wire, deprived of freedom or oppressed."

Litter reviews "The Complete Pieces" by Sam Smith @originalplus, pub: @alec-newman-kfs.bsky.social

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March 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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I'm very pleased to be reading alongside @carrieetter.bsky.social in the the first of the Adventures In Poetry series. It's at @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social, Nottingham. See some of you there, I hope.

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January 11, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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"...amid a dark suggestiveness there is also pleasure and a simple celebration of being alive."

Litter reviews “A Book of Sounds” by @billymills.bsky.social, pub. Shearsman Books:

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January 7, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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"What it is to be human, to care, to harm, to be harmed, to be cared for, is if anything the main subject of these poems and proses."

Steven Waling reviews the Collected Poems & Prose of Elaine Randell:

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December 13, 2024 at 9:29 PM
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"Hymns are songs of praise and ‘sound travels readily’"

Ian Brinton reviews "European Hymns" by Andrew Taylor:

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December 4, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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Steve Spence reviews “Ugly Hedgehog” by Benjamin Brake, pub. Shoals of Starlings Press:

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November 28, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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"The Passion of The Rabbit God" by Hongwei Bao, reviewed by Madeleine F. White (@madeleinefwhite.bsky.social):

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November 28, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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Litter reviews poetry collections by Peter Hughes, Sanjeev Sethi and Andrew Taylor:

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November 21, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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"a poetic biography of the painter, Gwen John.
Litter reviews "God’s Little Artist" by Sue Hubbard:

www.littermagazine.com/2024/09/revi...
November 15, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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“the aran aphorisms” by Mike Ferguson, is an ‘erasure’ based on John Millington Synge’s The Aran Islands (1907). Review by Steve Spence:
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November 15, 2024 at 8:36 PM
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"...every time you enter a truly radical text, you are entering the new society..."
Andrew Duncan reviews "Migraine Conference" by Allen Fisher
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November 15, 2024 at 8:35 PM
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This book brings "vivid and controversial character back into the light". M.C. Caseley on The Selected Poems of Mary Robinson (1758-1800)
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November 15, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Rupert Loydell reviews “Beautiful Feelings of Sensitive People” Andrew Duncan's survey of British poetry in the 21st century:
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November 15, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Steve Spence reviews “ad umbra – several stanzas towards an aftermath” by Chris Hall, pub. The Collective Press:
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November 15, 2024 at 8:33 PM