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August 15, 2016
ISBN 9781502916709 Nocturnal Iris Publishing: $8:99
Direct Lines to Hell, published with Watkins’ frank flare and in-your-face courage, presents the poet’s juvenilia—all written in his late teens and twenties—warts and all, and is the sort of thing no-one ever sees. We...
August 15, 2016
INDIGO DREAMS PUBLISHING £6:00
Bodies is a chapbook of 25 poems on the theme of the body, the connective tissue that holds these pieces together being rooted in physical, visceral descriptions, a story of connected musings on our physical forms. From wishing that he we...
May 11, 2016
INDIGO DREAMS PUBLISHING £6:00
Poet Simon Williams is hardly a new voice. As editor of The Broadsheet and a Devon poet probably best known for his collection He-She (Itinerant Press, 2012), Williams’ verse has been around for four decades. His latest pamphlet (chapboo...
May 11, 2016
ISBN: 9781530638406 NOCTURNAL IRIS PUBLICATIONS $6:99 US.
Fair disclosure: this literary journal solicited work from yours truly for its inaugural publication, and so this review is not the ‘neutral’ view we usually try to bring you. Nevertheless, we’re going to...
May 11, 2016
ISBN-10: 1447231430 PICADOR £25:00
I found this volume when I went searching for specifically female poets in Waterstones. A similarly weighty tome by Clive James was presented facing out in all its glory, as was Seamus Heaney’s selection of Yeats’ verse. We l...
February 12, 2016
Ros Barber
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Price: £8:99 (paperback)/£5.99 (ebook)
5 / 5 stars.
Review by LJ McDowall
This book was a real find, and we stumbled on it, by chance, in the bargain bin at Dobbies Garden Centre, where it most certainly should never h...
February 12, 2016
Edited by Rachel Piercey and Emma Wright
Illustrated by Emma Wright
Publisher: The Emma Press
Price: £10 (paperback)/£5.50 (ebook)
4 / 5 stars.
Review by LJ McDowall
Apropos for this issue's themes of womanhood and motherhood, we've selected The Emma Press Anth...
November 5, 2015
Valley Press £7:99 5/5 Stars.
At Quarterday we love all kinds of poetry, but low modernist free verse is perhaps an odd choice to review for our Samhain issue. Seahouses, however, is a fitting choice, the first collection of poetry from British cultural historian Rich...
November 5, 2015
Amazon Kindle £2:14 3/5 Stars.
New Zealand poet John Bryden explores the nature of freedom, of power, and the relationship between the citizen and the state in this short volume of largely metrical prosody. Poetry forms used here include linked limericks, poetry to t...
November 5, 2015
Arrow Books GBP £7:18
Star Rating 5/5
Unlike many primers on formal verse this book is firmly rooted in praxis. The poet learns to craft her poetry by experience, through Fry’s carefully graded tasks that lead the novice poet through most of the main poetry forms, with...
The Quarterday Review is an international literary journal dedicated to classical poetry forms published from Scotland. We also publish literary criticism and reviews of poetry chapbooks and anthologies every quarter and are rare market for long poetry, epic, and narrative poetry. We're honoured that this journal now graces the shelves of the libraries at Bodleian College Oxford, The University of Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin, and are equally proud to contribute to the poetry collections at the British Library, National Library of Scotland, National Library of Wales, The Scottish Poetry Library and The Northern Poetry Library. We hope you enjoy our current August issue.