Southern Review of Books

As a poet who uses meter and form frequently, I was instantly in love with Anna Lena Phillips Bell’s new collection Might Could. I wanted to understand how the formal elements of the work complemented or shifted the content of Bell’s poems. ...

Location, location, location! Rathburn’s Broken Houses opens with the speaker’s parents, in a poem titled “Loved Houses,” window-shopping houses they can’t afford. The title may as well read “Loved Homes” as we see the cottage, the South Beach studio, t...

In an interview included in the soon-to-be-released documentary on great American poet Mary Oliver, Saved by the Beauty of the World, Oliver shares that she is “most worried about […] a most serious, ongoing devastation of the Earth, which...

The disappearance of a loved one is often a sudden, unexpected event, but surviving the disappearance can be a slow, agonizing process, an erasure of oneself as well as the vanished. Katherine Conner’s The Hanged Man, a collection of short stories, depi...

Following Justin Wymer’s debut collection Deed, published in 2019, Let the Forest Go: Poems is “a memoir in poetic fragments,” an edited transcription of the intimate diaries the author kept during his time abroad from 2015 to 2017. In the Span...