Literary reviews by Tim Love.
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Friday, 24 October 2025

"Dreich #7" (Jack Caradoc (ed), 2020)

This is a Scottish poetry magazine which is no longer accepting submissions.

There are some good lines scattered around, and poems I’m not at all convinced by -

  • “Home” seems to have 2 typos – “As he pulls Kirstie and I through the snow”; “they shake of the snow”
  • "Saviour" fills 5 pages. It has odd spaces near commas, and lines like "Megan' awake,/ In her big brothers room,/ Same look of fear/ and impending doom/ A look I have seen on/ her tiny wee face/ Too many times now,/ sadly this is the case". I don't understand the use of upper case and apostrophes. The final line needs rewriting.
  • "Report of inquiry into events during the census" appears twice, on adjacent pages. I don't think it's that good a poem.

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