Those guys have been on fire: Ben Sando reports on Peter Bakowski and Ken Bolton’s linked sequence of four books
I’ve been reading the four Bakowski-and-Bolton books. Those guys have been on fire! I especially like the poems with crazy conceits.
Wakefield Press
A trove of ancestral magic: Leila Lois reviews ‘In the Room with the She Wolf’ by Jelena Dinic
The pathetic fallacy of mined earth sets a precedent for a collection that explores turbidity, extraction and devastation, in multiple forms. At the level of language, the most resonant for a poetry collection, Dinić explores the multiple excavations needed to recapture stolen histories of her past.
Unspoken ironies and double meanings: Mike Ladd launches In the Room with the She Wolf by Jelena Dinic
I want to go straight to the title “In the Room with the She Wolf”. We see here, straight away, the dynamic tensions in Jelena’s writing. Room – domestic, interior, protection. She Wolf – wild, exterior, danger. But it’s not as simple as that. The she wolf in East European symbolism also represents family, the matriarch, the pack leader, the protector.
Rochford Street Review 