Emotional Support Horse is the multi-talented Claudine Toutoungi’s third collection published by Carcanet, and one which I am sure her firmly established readership will enjoy getting their teeth into.  As a self-professed casual poetry reader, I will admit that I expected this “tragicomic grief journal” to challenge me, and to perhaps be tricky to engage […]

At present it is a frustrating time for some authors to be a part of the publishing world—once the battle to get published has been won, they have to contend with low advances, a saturated market and, most of all, publishing houses dedicating most of their attention to yet another celebrity’s first novel. To the […]

Poetry has always been a mirror to our soul, a reflection of our thoughts and untold feelings. Writing a poem is like writing a letter to the world, to leave it out there for the readers to find when we finally lay to rest, a letter of our long journey, striving to reach a goal, […]