Poems from Malika's Poetry Kitchen - a Brixton-based poetry group. 16 pages of bios! The book starts with a section about the history of the group - Malika Booker and Roger Robinson. It's pointed out that "Page poetry is, in 2001, overwhelmingly white" and that performance poetry hit a barrier. By 2015 the landscape's changing. In 2016 Kei Miller wins the Forward collection prize. Malika chairs the 2016 Forward judges. In 2010 Roger Robinson wins the Eliot prize.
Several poems (p. 25, 26, 27, 36, etc) use adumbration, which maybe works better live. I like "Fire" (Aoife Mannix) and "In varying dilutions" (Bernadette Reed). Found many of the others a struggle.
Other reviews
- Kate Birch (The range of voice is what is most striking about this anthology)
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