Kathy Pimlott

Reviews

After the rites and sandwiches

Mab Jones in Buzz magazine: 'a gorgeous mix of clear-eyed plain-talk, plus a lucidity of language and even playfulness... fresh and fierce, sorrowful and strange.'

Lesley Sharpe in Alchemy Spoon: 
'..(a) sense of unpredictable groundswell flows through these poems, animating their surprising candour and depth of feeling.'

Nicki Heinen in London Grip: '...hard-won humour peppers the pamphlet in firework displays of energy. ....Pimlott looks bereavement in the face and resists the temptation to gloss over heartbreak by romantic or sentimental words.

Helena Nelson in The Friday Poem: ' It is a particular privilege and pleasure for this reader to surf such delicate, precise waves of understatement'.

Peter Raynard inEverybody's Reviewing: 'a stunning biography of a marriage and its aftershock, that will stay in the reader’s memory long after the book is laid to rest.'

Cassandra Fong in Redbrick: 'a journey through the violent, the mundane, and the quietly absurd elements of grief, and it moves with a kind of stillness that is both disorienting and tender.'

the small manoeuvres

Emma Simon in The Friday Poem: 'sharply observed, acerbically witty but also deeply moving at times, particularly in the tender depictions of friendship and the honest way the poems explore ageing and the sense of time passing.'

Matthew Paul in his Poetry Blog: 'full of  clear-eyed perceptions, a palpable sense of social justice, deep respect for family, friendship (especially amongst women), history and memory, and finely-drawn character studies. They are, in the best way, very readable poems, without any irritating tricksy-bollock nonsense'.

Elastic Glue

​London Grip: 'a distinctive mix of probing and playfulness, a joy to read.'

Poetry Book Society Summer Review: 'An incredible pamphlet which will enhance your perception of the world around you.'

Sphinx Reviews: 'Pimlott places the reader in her world, along side her, precisely but lightly.'

​Goose Fair Night 

Sabotage Reviews.'tenderly written, with a fingernail dipped in mild acid.'

Sphinx Reviews; 'dense, delicious details of what might be invisible to others.'

Huffington Post's Summer Poetry Reading List,: 'delicately arranged and convincing for its pitch-perfect juxtapositions.'

​Cuckoo Review: 'upturns the ordinary in order to show us its beauty.'

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