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Take me to when death / was something I could poke, fearlessly, with a stick
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Goliat

Garry MacKenzie is highly impressed by this assured poetry collection, sweet, steely, and at times on a par with the best of Michael Longley

PUBLISHED ON: 28/02/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

If there’s a more apt word than ‘assured’ for this collection then I can’t think of it. There is poise to the writing, the sensation of encountering a …

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Delicacy: A Memoir about Cake and Death

Ed Garland gobbles up this rigorous, crafted and very funny exploration of the links between cake and human distress by the Welsh comedian and Ghosts actor

PUBLISHED ON: 28/02/23

CATEGORY: Reviews

[Katy Wix’s] positivity is convincing because it is thoroughly rooted in experience. Her writing in Delicacy is not painful or raw or brutal. It is ca …

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