Book review – poetry

Book Review

How Wilfred Owen became a poet

His letters are a deeply moving supplement to his poems

Daniel Swift

Ernest Hilbert weathers the storms of life and fatherhood

Storm Swimmer is a collection both haunted and nurtured by waters

Peter Vertacnick

A quiet delight

The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón and My Grief, The Sun by Sanna Wani reviewed

Francesca Peacock

A gay fandango

Joie de Vivre by Paul Bailey reviewed

Timothy Mo

Books

Who knew that Arabic has more than 30 words for wine?

You know you’re in good hands when the dedication reads: ‘To the writers, drinkers and freethinkers of the Arab and Islamic worlds, long may they live.’ Abu Nuwas was all three, and a complete hoot. Why he is so little known in Britain should be a mystery. But outward-looking as we are as a nation, … Read more

Justin Marozzi