The Lake - contemporary poetry webzine

Patricia Carragon on Karen Neuberg’s the elephants are asking

Usha Kishore on Jason Eng Hun Lee’s Beds in the East

David Mark Williams on Patrick Lodge’s Remarkable Occurrences

JANUARY

Gopal Lahiri on Sunil Sharma, Intersections- Visual, Verbal

Fiona Sinclair on Nancy Charley’s The Gospel of Trickster

2019

DECEMBER

Albert Gelpi’s American Poetry After Modernism

Helen Ivory’s The Anatomical Venus

Jackie Craven’s Secret Formulas: Techniques of the Masters

David Mark Williams’ Papaya Fantasia

Aaron Smith’s The Book of Daniel

David Mark Williams on Hannah Stone’s Sŵn y Morloi.

Charles Rammelkamp on Reuben Jackson’s Scattered Clouds: New and Selected Poems.

Pippa Little on Sarah L. Dixon’s Adding Wax Patterns to Wednesday

Fiona Sinclair on Rosie Johnston’s Six-Count Jive

David Mark Wiliams on Fiona Sinclair’s The Time Traveller’s Picnic.

Charles Rammelkamp on Robert Cooperman’s That Summer.

Hannah Stone on Niall Campbell’s Noctuary

Jayne Marek on Claudia Serea & Maria Haro’s TwoIxism

Charles Rammelkamp on Clarinda Harriss/Peter Bruun’s

Innumerable Moons.

Colin Pink on Kavita A Jindal’s Patina.

Hannah Stone on Harry Clifton’s Herod’s Dispensations.

Grant Tarbard on Helen Ivory’s Maps of the Abandoned City.

David Mark Williams on J.R. Solonche’s, Tomorrow, Today, and Yesterday

Hannah Stone on Vindication: Six Women Poets, ed. Cherry Potts

Grant Tarbard on Marie Lightman’s, Shutters

Hannah Stone on Marianne Burton’s Kierkegaard’s Cupboard.

Charles Rammelkamp on Chelsea Rathburn’s Still Life with Mother and Knife.

Gopal Lahiri on Kiriti Sengupta’s Solitary Stillness.

David Mark Williams on Cathy Bryant’s Erratics

Pippa Little on Jane Lovell’s Metastatic

Hannah Stone on Angi Holden’s Spools of Thread

Fiona Sinclair on Ayelet McKenzie’s Messages Written on Envelope Backs

2018

Robyn Bolam on Wendy Cope’s Anecdotal Evidence

David Fulton on The Poems of T.S. Elliot: Vol. 1

Jayne Marek on S. A. Leavesley’s How to Grow Matches

Charles Rammelkamp on Bradley Paul’s Plasma.

David Fulton on Lola Ridge’s, To the Many: Collected Early Works

Jayne Marek on Ruth Stacey and Katy Wareham-Morris’s Inheritance

M. J. Iuppa on J. R. Solonche’s In Short Order

Charles Rammelkamp on Donna Masini’s 4:30 Movie

Kavita A. Jindal on Usha Kishore’s Immigrant

Jayne Marek on Grant Tarbard’s Rosary of Ghosts.

Rodney Wood’s Dante Called You Beatrice.

Charles Rammelkamp on Francine Witte’s Café Crazy

M.J. Iuppa on Alicia Hoffman’s Railroad Phoenix

Jayne Marek on Sarah L. Dixon’s The Sky is Cracked and Joy Howard’s Foraging

Jack Little on Robyn Bolem’s Hyem

Fiona Sinclair on Nicky Phillips, Jam in Aisle 3

Charles Rammelkamp on Sarah Rose Nordgren’s Darwin’s Mother

Usha Kishore on Shanta Acharya’s Imagine: New and Selected Poems

2017

Jayne Marek on Lena Kahlaf Tuffaha’s Arab in Newsland

Jack Little on Abegail Morley’s In the Curator’s Hands

Fiona Sinclair on Donall Dempsey’s Gerry Sweeney’s Mammy

Jayne Marek on Stephen Cramer’s Bone Music

Pippa Little on Fifty Ways to Fly, ed. Alison Hill

Jack Little on Angela Topping’s, The Five Petals of Elderflower

J. R. Solonche on Sarah White’s to one who bends my time

Jackie Craven on Jayne Marek’s In and Out of Rough Water

Devika Basu on Kiriti Sengupta’s Dreams of the Sacred and Ephemeral

Jean Atkin on Pippa Little’s Twist

Charles Rammelkamp on Shirley J. Brewer’s Bistro in Another Realm

J. R. Solonche on Rosemary Badcoe’s Drawing a Diagram

Grant Tarbard on Gram Joel Davies’ Bolt Down This Earth

Jack Little on Lena Khalaf Tuffaha’s Water & Salt

Gram Joel Davies on Annette C. Boehm’s The Knowledge Weapon

David Fulton on Richard Gray’s A History of American Poetry.

Fiona Sinclair on Nancy Charley’s Little Blue Hut.

Pippa Little on Dominic James’ Pilgrim Station.

Grant Tarbard on Ruth Aylett & Beth McDonough’s Handfast

Mahuya Bhaumik on Home Thoughts: Poetry of The British Indian Diaspora

Becky Cherriman’s Echolocation

Charles Remmelkamp on Aaron Smith’s Primer

2016

J. R. Solonche’s Won’t be Long: Poems Short, Poems Shorter, Poems Shortest

Georgina Mexía-Amador on Ingrid Valencia’s Un círculo en otro sol/Circle in a different sun

Robyn Bolam on The Poems of Basil Bunting.

Gram Joel Davies on Julia Webb’s Bird Sisters

Jack Little on Joan Johnston’s An Overtaking

Jessica Gray on Patrick Lodge’s Shenanigans

Maggie Harris on Mark Holihan’s There Are No Foreign Lands

Pippa Little on Claire Askew’s This changes things

Gram Joel Davies on Angela Topping and Sarah James’ Hearth

Sarah White on Sharon Dolin’s Manual for Living

Jack Little on S. A. Leavesley’s Lampshades & Glass Rivers

Grand Tarbard on Anthony Costello’s Angles & Visions.

Tony Curtis on Pippa Little’s our lady of the iguanas

Laura M. Kaminski on John L. Stanizzi’s Hallelujah Time

Robyn Bolam on Christopher Reid’s The Curiosities

Jessica Gray on Funny Ha-Ha, Funny Peculiar, ed. Neil Astley

Ananya S Guha on Kiriti Sengupta’s The Earthen Flute

Jessica Gray on Claudia Serea’s To Part is to Die a Little

2015

Pippa Little on Alison Hill’s Sisters in Spitfires

and Rebecca Bilkau’s Choosing New Omens

Mark S. Burrows on Rebecca Kylie Law’s In My Days and In My Sleep

Grant Tarbard on Jack Little’s Elsewhere

Jessica Gray on Maggie Butt’s Degrees of Twilight and Jennifer A. McGowan’s The Weight of Coming Home.

Robyn Bolam on Clive James’ Sentenced to Life

Sunil Sharma on Usha Kishore’s Night Sky Between the Stars

Maggie Harris on Maggie Sawkins’ Zones of Avoidance

Alison Hill on Anne-Marie Fyfe’s House of Small Absences

John Murphy on J. R. Solonche’s Beautiful Day

Jessica Gray on Jo Bell’s Kith

Laure M. Kaminski on Mike Dockins’ Letter To So-And-So From Wherever

Rebecca Kylie Law on Kevin Hart’s Wild Track

Jordan Savage on Hallelujah for 50ft Women

Fiona Sinclair on James R. Kilner’s Frequencies of Light

Gram Joel Davies on Rosemary Tonks’ Collected Poems

Robyn Bolam on Alison Hill’s Slate Rising.

John Murphy on Fiona Sinclair's, Ladies Who Lunch.