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ReviewsPhillip Nicholl2020-12-04T16:01:41+00:00
  • Dawn Gorman’s Instead, Let Us Say reviewed by Ruth Sharman

    Dawn Gorman’s Instead, Let Us Say reviewed by Ruth Sharman

    March 22, 2021
    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 …
  • Ruth Sharman reviews Mary Noonan’s Stone Girl in The High Window

    Ruth Sharman reviews Mary Noonan’s Stone Girl in The High Window

    March 22, 2021
    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 …
  • Robert Desnos: Surrealist, Lover, Resistant reviewed by Ruth Sharman

    Robert Desnos: Surrealist, Lover, Resistant reviewed by Ruth Sharman

    March 22, 2021
    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 …
  • Carla Scarano reviews Scarlet Tiger in Ink Sweat and Tears

    Carla Scarano reviews Scarlet Tiger in Ink Sweat and Tears

    March 22, 2021
    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, …
  • Wendy Klein’s review of Scarlet Tiger in London Grip

    Wendy Klein’s review of Scarlet Tiger in London Grip

    March 17, 2021
    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 …
  • Scarlet Tiger reviewed by Claire Dyer in The High Window

    Scarlet Tiger reviewed by Claire Dyer in The High Window

    February 25, 2021
  • Martin Malone reviews ‘Scarlet Tiger’ in The Interpreter’s House

    Martin Malone reviews ‘Scarlet Tiger’ in The Interpreter’s House

    March 1, 2017
    Scarlet Tiger reviewed by Martin Malone in the current issue (64) of The Interpreter’s House.   You were right: it was never just about butterflies. Scarlet Tiger by Ruth Sharman. Templar Poetry. 78pp; £10.00, ISBN 978-1-911132-10-3. Five years on from my own – somewhat callow – Straid success, it’s a pleasantly …
  • Manchester Review: Ian Pople reviews Scarlet Tiger

    Manchester Review: Ian Pople reviews Scarlet Tiger

    December 22, 2016
    Ian Pople Ruth Sharman, Scarlet Tiger (Templar Poetry, £10)     Ruth Sharman’s Scarlet Tiger comes some time after her first collection, Birth of the Owl Butterflies; its title poem a second place winner in the Arvon Poetry Competition. In this book too, there are poems about butterflies and Sharman’s father. Indeed the interest in, …
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