Briefly Reviews

Succinct, meaningful reviews

We are always looking for new writing to review. We are especially interested in debut poetry collections and writing that engages with environmental issues.

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Latest Reviews

Everything in between

A transformative debut collection that interrogates grief, reality, the realities of grief and the griefs of reality

Holding smoke

An unflinching but frustrating meditation on language, the body… and cigarettes

Control and chaos

Life Drawing is a debut collection that doesn’t stop moving. Its poems speak to a changing world

All Reviews

  • Everything in between
    A transformative debut collection that interrogates grief, reality, the realities of grief and the griefs of reality
  • Holding smoke
    An unflinching but frustrating meditation on language, the body… and cigarettes
  • Control and chaos
    Life Drawing is a debut collection that doesn’t stop moving. Its poems speak to a changing world
  • Seeing things and seething
    We Saw It All Happen is a graveyard of humanity’s errors. Its tiny protagonists cannot be ignored
  • ‘A Theme Song for Our Lives’: 98 Ways to Hope
    A debut poetry anthology offering 98 unique perspectives on hope
  • Weathering Words
    A storm-weathered debut collection of poetry that intermingles narrative heft with lyrical flourishes
  • What comes before after?
    Afterglow by Michelle Marie Jacquot is an introspective romp through the dark, twisting halls of the inner mind
  • Whispered Screams
    Keely O’Shaugnessy’s short stories take the reader through scenes of horror and hope. Screams are whispers and whispers screams…
  • ‘It seems that I find myself coming out/ as biracial’
    Younge’s poetic space is a multitude of multitudes. Her language is constantly evolving, while the self shifts incessantly
  • Alone and alive
    Sweetgum County is both a magnet and a vacuum. The reader too will be pulled back for more.
  • Myth and micro fiction
    Lyrical and energetic, the novella expertly intertwines myth and history
  • Words + Shapes = Poetry
    Kelly reconciles mathematics and poetry, science and art, logic and creativity, and demonstrates that what falls under these labels should not so hastily be kept apart.

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