Dawn Gorman’s Instead, Let Us Say reviewed by Ruth Sharman Instead, Let Us Say by Dawn Gorman. £8. Dempsey and Windle. ISBN: 978-1907435904 I have read and re-read my copy of Instead, Let Us Say to the point where the pages are falling apart and the pamphlet needs replacing. These are haunting poems written with [...]
Ruth Sharman Reviews Mary Noonan’s Stone Girl Mary Noonan’s Stone Girl reviewed by Ruth Sharman Stone Girl by Mary Noonan. £11. Dedalus Press. ISBN: 978-1910251485 The landscape of Mary Noonan’s Stone Girl is constantly shifting, and not just in geographic terms. This is a world of blurred boundaries, veering between water and stone, between past and [...]
Robert Desnos: Surrealist, Lover, Resistant reviewed by Ruth Sharman Robert Desnos reviewed by Ruth Sharman Robert Desnos: Surrealist, Lover, Resistant translated by Timothy Adès. £12.99. Arc Publications. 978-1906570699 Poet and award-winning literary translator Timothy Adès, recipient of the John Dryden Prize and the Premio Valle-Inclán, enjoys a challenge. That much is clear from his lively [...]
Carla Scarano reviews ‘Scarlet Tiger’ by Ruth Sharman by Helen Ivory | Jun 10, 2018 | Reviews The most recent collection by Ruth Sharman, Scarlet Tiger, Templar Poetry 2016, won the 2016 Straid Collection Award. It is dedicated to her father and to her son. It is a substantial collection, featuring fifty-nine poems divided in [...]
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, poetry, Wendy Klein • 0 Comments Wendy Klein finds Ruth Sharman’s poetry collection hard to put down Scarlet Tiger by Ruth Sharman Templar Poetry ISBN 9 781911 132103 94 pp £10 Actually starting to write this review has been the ultimate challenge. Starting [...]
Fragments and The Hill (from Scarlet Tiger, Templar 2016) have been reprinted in Staying Human, the fourth in Neil Astley’s Staying Alive series from Bloodaxe (published October 2020).
Lost The grass cuts when I brush too close. Tall stands of it. And a brilliant yellow pea I recognise uselessly as senna. And if there was a path, it’s petered out now, leaving the ground littered with little rocks. A likely place for snakes. The hill in the distance ought to be [...]
Tannery Bungalow What must our mother have made of it? After Wood Farm and the outside privy where the door didn’t shut. That white mansion with its cupolas – their finials and quatrefoils – like bells perched on the roof to summon the servants, its sweep of steps to the veranda flanked by [...]
Arriving in Chennai What am I doing in a hotel where soup is poured from a teapot and the houseboy flattens himself against the wall to let me pass? Fifteen floors below the sea-view infinity pool and potted frangipanis lie piles of rubble, paving stones rearing skywards like graves shattered at the Last [...]
Commended and shortlisted in recent poetry competitions: Dharga Road commended in the Battered Moons Poetry Competition 2020 Talking of India shortlisted in the Second Light Poetry Competition 2020 City of Nectar commended in the Wells International Poetry Competition 2020
