Eleanor Kedney’s Between the Earth and Sky, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Eleanor Kedney Beneath the Earth and Sky C&R Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Eleanor Kedney’s new full-length poetry collection Beneath the Earth and Sky memorializes several of the author’s family members, living and dead, with the latter far outnumbering the former. She draws our attention first to her brother, Peter, to whom the book is […]
Connie Post’s Prime Meridian, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Connie Post Prime Meridian Glass Lyre Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Take a sphere, any sphere: a planet, pearl, or ping pong ball. Mark a dot to represent the North Pole. Place another dot at the point farthest away from the first dot, to indicate the South Pole. Draw a line, as straight as you […]
Kathryn Stripling Byer’s Trawling the Silences, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Kathryn Stripling Byer Trawling the Silences Jacar Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Trawling the Silences, according to the substantial, well-written bio at the end of the book, was an unfinished manuscript at the time of Kathryn Stripling Byer’s[1] death in 2017. What makes it “unfinished” is not explained. Perhaps there were drafts of uncompleted poems […]
George Franklin’s Traveling for No Good Reason, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
George Franklin Traveling for No Good Reason Sheila-Na-Gig Editions Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Most of the traveling in George Franklin’s new poetry collection is done not by train or plane but by memory. This has several advantages. Traveling by memory is inexpensive, instantaneous, and allows the traveler to go backwards and forwards in time. For […]
Jared Smith’s Shadows Within the Roaring Fork, Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor
Jared Smith Shadows Within the Roaring Fork Flowstone Press Reviewer: Richard Allen Taylor Early in his latest collection, Shadows Within the Roaring Fork, Jared Smith firmly establishes himself as a serious, truth-telling, common-sense kind of poet who would never fake his own death. So, it comes as a shock when he begins the poem, “Learning […]
