Reviews by colin
[in alphabetical order]
Serena Alagappan - Sensitive to Temperature (The Poetry Business, 2023)
Joseph Allen – Clabber Street Blues (Greenwich Exchange, 2016)
Beckett Women: Ceremonies of Departure (The Poets' Theatre, 2017)
Maureen Boyle – The Work of a Winter (Arlen House, 2017)
Maureen Boyle - The Last Spring of the World (Arlen House, 2022)
Caroline Bracken - Boy, Mother (Smith|Doorstop, 2025)
Lorraine Carey – From Doll House Windows (Revival Press, 2017)
Ron Carey - Distance (Revival Press, 2016)
Ruth Carr – Feather and Bone (Arlen House, 2017)
Jenny Cleland - In and Out of Love Poems (self-published, 2024)
Trevor Conway - No Small Thing (self-published, 2023)
Deirdre Cartmill - The Wind Stills to Listen (Arlen House, 2023)
Stephanie Conn – Copeland’s Daughter (The Poetry Business, 2016)
Ned Denny - Ventriloquise (Carcanet, 2023)
Maurice Devitt - Growing Up In Colour (Doire Press, 2018)
Clare Dwyer - Murmurations (Hermitage Press, 2022)
Michael Edwards - Another Art of Poetry and Doorstones (Carcanet, 2023)
Michael Farry – The Age of Glass (Revival Press, 2017)
Anne Fitzgerald – Vacant Possession (Salmon Press, 2017)
Ray Givans – The Innermost Room (Poetry Salzburg, 2017)
Erin Halliday - Pharmakon (Templar Poetry, 2015)
Ross Hattaway - Pretending to be Dead (Seven Towers, 2012)
Ross Hattaway – How To Sleep With Strangers (Turas Press, 2017)
Jennifer Horne – Little Wanderer (Salmon Poetry, 2016)
Gaynor Kane - Circling the Sun (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2018)
RB Kelly – Edge of Heaven (Liberties Press, 2016)
Alice Kinsella – Flower Press (The Onslaught Press, 2018)
Matt Kirkham - The Dumbo Octopus (Templar Poetry, 2016)
Phil Lynch – In A Changing Light (Salmon Poetry, 2016)
Karen J. McDonnell – This Little World (Doire Press, 2017)
Elizabeth McGeown - Cockroach (Verve Poetry Press, 2022)
Laura McKee - Take Care Of Your Hooves Darling (Against the Grain Poetry Press, 2023)
Emma McKervey – The Rag Tree Speaks (Doire Press, 2017)
Mel McMahon – Out of Breath (Summer Palace Press, 2016)
Maria McManus – Available Light (Arlen House, 2017)
Liz McSkeane – So Long, Calypso (Turas Press, 2017)
Susan Millar DuMars – Bone Fire (Salmon Poetry, 2016)
Louis Mulcahy - The Potter’s Book (Doire Press, 2018)
Emma Must - Notes on the Use of the Austrian Scythe (Templar Poetry, 2015)
Joan Newmann - Dead End (Summer Palace Press, 2018)
Jessamine O Connor – Pact (self published, 2018)
Nathanael O'Reilly - (Un)belonging (Recent Works Press, 2020)
Nathanael O'Reilly - Terminals (above/ground press, 2025)
Frank Ormsby – The Parkinson’s Poems (Mariscat Press, 2016)
Karl Parkinson - Butterflies of a Bad Summer (Salmon Poetry, 2016)
Dean Rhetoric - Cancer [+Pop Punk] (Broken Sleep Books, 2022)
David Ricks - With Signs Following (Two Rivers Press, 2024)
Anne Tannam – Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor (Salmon Poetry, 2017)
Terra Nova Productions - Arrivals 3: Mi Mundo (2016)
Terra Nova Productions - Me You Us Them (2018)
Keshia Starrett – Hysterical (Burning Eye Books, 2017)
Judi Sutherland - Following Teisa (Book Mill Press, 2023)
Various - Washing Windows? Irish Women Write Poetry (Arlen House, 2017)
Various - Corbenic Poetry Path: Collected Poems (Diehard Publishers, 2020)
Catherine Walsh – The Beautiful Untogether (Smithereens Press, 2017)
Michael J. Whelan – Peacekeeper (Doire Press, 2016)
Macdara Woods – Music From The Big Tent (Dedalus Press, 2016)
[Some of these review were originally written from Lagan Online and the Lagan Press websites, both of which are no longer online. I've been able to link to some reviews archived via the Wayback Machine; however, some are missing, which I will endeavour to try and recover and link once available.]
Serena Alagappan - Sensitive to Temperature (The Poetry Business, 2023)
Joseph Allen – Clabber Street Blues (Greenwich Exchange, 2016)
Beckett Women: Ceremonies of Departure (The Poets' Theatre, 2017)
Maureen Boyle – The Work of a Winter (Arlen House, 2017)
Maureen Boyle - The Last Spring of the World (Arlen House, 2022)
Caroline Bracken - Boy, Mother (Smith|Doorstop, 2025)
Lorraine Carey – From Doll House Windows (Revival Press, 2017)
Ron Carey - Distance (Revival Press, 2016)
Ruth Carr – Feather and Bone (Arlen House, 2017)
Jenny Cleland - In and Out of Love Poems (self-published, 2024)
Trevor Conway - No Small Thing (self-published, 2023)
Deirdre Cartmill - The Wind Stills to Listen (Arlen House, 2023)
Stephanie Conn – Copeland’s Daughter (The Poetry Business, 2016)
Ned Denny - Ventriloquise (Carcanet, 2023)
Maurice Devitt - Growing Up In Colour (Doire Press, 2018)
Clare Dwyer - Murmurations (Hermitage Press, 2022)
Michael Edwards - Another Art of Poetry and Doorstones (Carcanet, 2023)
Michael Farry – The Age of Glass (Revival Press, 2017)
Anne Fitzgerald – Vacant Possession (Salmon Press, 2017)
Ray Givans – The Innermost Room (Poetry Salzburg, 2017)
Erin Halliday - Pharmakon (Templar Poetry, 2015)
Ross Hattaway - Pretending to be Dead (Seven Towers, 2012)
Ross Hattaway – How To Sleep With Strangers (Turas Press, 2017)
Jennifer Horne – Little Wanderer (Salmon Poetry, 2016)
Gaynor Kane - Circling the Sun (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2018)
RB Kelly – Edge of Heaven (Liberties Press, 2016)
Alice Kinsella – Flower Press (The Onslaught Press, 2018)
Matt Kirkham - The Dumbo Octopus (Templar Poetry, 2016)
Phil Lynch – In A Changing Light (Salmon Poetry, 2016)
Karen J. McDonnell – This Little World (Doire Press, 2017)
Elizabeth McGeown - Cockroach (Verve Poetry Press, 2022)
Laura McKee - Take Care Of Your Hooves Darling (Against the Grain Poetry Press, 2023)
Emma McKervey – The Rag Tree Speaks (Doire Press, 2017)
Mel McMahon – Out of Breath (Summer Palace Press, 2016)
Maria McManus – Available Light (Arlen House, 2017)
Liz McSkeane – So Long, Calypso (Turas Press, 2017)
Susan Millar DuMars – Bone Fire (Salmon Poetry, 2016)
Louis Mulcahy - The Potter’s Book (Doire Press, 2018)
Emma Must - Notes on the Use of the Austrian Scythe (Templar Poetry, 2015)
Joan Newmann - Dead End (Summer Palace Press, 2018)
Jessamine O Connor – Pact (self published, 2018)
Nathanael O'Reilly - (Un)belonging (Recent Works Press, 2020)
Nathanael O'Reilly - Terminals (above/ground press, 2025)
Frank Ormsby – The Parkinson’s Poems (Mariscat Press, 2016)
Karl Parkinson - Butterflies of a Bad Summer (Salmon Poetry, 2016)
Dean Rhetoric - Cancer [+Pop Punk] (Broken Sleep Books, 2022)
David Ricks - With Signs Following (Two Rivers Press, 2024)
Anne Tannam – Tides Shifting Across My Sitting Room Floor (Salmon Poetry, 2017)
Terra Nova Productions - Arrivals 3: Mi Mundo (2016)
Terra Nova Productions - Me You Us Them (2018)
Keshia Starrett – Hysterical (Burning Eye Books, 2017)
Judi Sutherland - Following Teisa (Book Mill Press, 2023)
Various - Washing Windows? Irish Women Write Poetry (Arlen House, 2017)
Various - Corbenic Poetry Path: Collected Poems (Diehard Publishers, 2020)
Catherine Walsh – The Beautiful Untogether (Smithereens Press, 2017)
Michael J. Whelan – Peacekeeper (Doire Press, 2016)
Macdara Woods – Music From The Big Tent (Dedalus Press, 2016)
[Some of these review were originally written from Lagan Online and the Lagan Press websites, both of which are no longer online. I've been able to link to some reviews archived via the Wayback Machine; however, some are missing, which I will endeavour to try and recover and link once available.]
