Gram Joel Davies

Poet

Reviews and comment by Gram Joel Davies

“Boehm’s subject matter ranges and intrigues. So many voices, like the many heads of Mombi…”

Filled under: Criticism By: Gram Davies Posted on: 6th June 2017 Comments are disabled!

I have been treated to this book, which is part travel memoir, part elegy

Filled under: Criticism By: Gram Davies Posted on: 31st January 2017 Comments are disabled!

“The eye that must enjoy running up and down and around it, getting and doubting meaning…”

Filled under: Criticism By: Gram Davies Tags: Lighthouse Literary Journal, Vahni Capildeo
Posted on: 12th July 2016 Comments are disabled!

Is it possible to imagine a we in a poem that isn’t magisterial, assuming, coercive?

Filled under: Criticism By: Gram Davies Posted on: 11th July 2016 Comments are disabled!

Katrina Naomi, in her signature plain-speak, unlaces mouths who should never have been tied. This isn’t history, it is happening.

Filled under: Criticism By: Gram Davies Posted on: 24th June 2016 Comments are disabled!

A “poetry duet” or collaboration

Filled under: Criticism By: Gram Davies Tags: Angela Topping, Hearth, review, Sarah James, The Lake
Posted on: 1st June 2016 Comments are disabled!

It is in our interests to learn how to put on a spellbinding performance.

Filled under: Criticism By: Gram Davies Posted on: 1st June 2016 Comments are disabled!

The purpose of poetry reviews is the shared and reflective practice of reading poems

Filled under: Criticism By: Gram Davies Posted on: 28th April 2016 Comments are disabled!

For an editor to spend long enough on your work to form an opinion about how it was written… well, that is a generous thing to do.

Filled under: Criticism By: Gram Davies Tags: Editor, Mentor, Rejection
Posted on: 21st April 2016 Comments are disabled!

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Filled under: Criticism By: Gram Davies Posted on: 13th April 2016 Comments are disabled!