List of 2025 blog reviews

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Here's my list of this year's reviews, with links

Poetry

Real Lear: New & Selected Poems by Claire Crowther, pub. Shearsman 2024
From Base Materials by Jenny Lewis, pub. Carcanet 2024
Chalking the Pavement by Kate Noakes, pub. Broken Sleep Books 2024
A Bird Called Elaeus: poems for here and now from the Greek Anthology, by David Constantine, pub. Bloodaxe 2024
Leaving the Hills by Tony Curtis, pub. Seren 2024
Aleph Bet by Sue Rose, pub. Cinnamon 2025
maybe i'll call gillian Anderson by Rhian Elizabeth, pub. Broken Sleep Books 2025
Object Permanence by Anne Berkeley, pub. The Garlic Press 2025
The Green Month by Matthew Francis, pub. Faber 2025

Anthologies
Fire, Brigid and the Sacred Feminine, eds Shauna Gilligan and Niamh Boyce, pub. Arlen House, 2024

Prose fiction
Fox Bites, by Lloyd Markham, pub. Parthian 2024
Circulation, by Magnus Florin, trs. Harry Watson, pub. Vagabond Voices 2024
The Bruegel Boy, by Emma Darwin, pub. Holland House Books 2025

Children’s/YA
Kata & Tor, by Kevin Crossley-Holland, pub. Walker Books Ltd 2025

Non-fiction
The Hundred Years War Vol 5: Triumph and Illusion, by Jonathan Sumption, pub. Faber 2023
Edinburgh: A New History, by Alistair Moffat, pub. Birlinn 2024
Embers of the Hands; Hidden Histories of the Viking Age, by Eleanor Barraclough, pub. Profile Books 2024
The Haitian Revolution: An Enthralling Tale of Resistance, Freedom, and the Birth of a Nation, by Billy Wellman, pub. Enthralling History, 2024
Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era, by Alwyn Turner pub. Profile Books 2024
The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams, pub. Viking 2021
Twilight Cities, Lost Capitals of the Mediterranean, by Katherine Pangonis, pub. Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2023
Bletchley Park’s Secret Source, by Peter Hore, pub. Greenhill Books 2021
The Ship Beneath The Ice, by Mensun Bound, pub. Macmillan 2022
Our Daily War by Andrey Kurkov, pub. Open Borders Press 2025