This just in!
New Welsh Review and
Poetry London love Sidekick’s poetry comics anthology
Over The Line!
Poetry London‘s
Julia Bird describes the anthology as
“a book bursting with contagious creativity, a book offering a truly stimulating combination of art and analysis.”
She also praises the work of editors
Chrissy Williams and
Tom Humberstone, saying:
“The tone is instructive and inspiring; it makes you want to take scissors and glue to your own Marvell words and Marvel art to see how image, text, space and silence can be recombined to create and uncover meaning.”Read the full review in Issue 83 (which also features poetry by the marvellous Mark Waldron).
The praise keeps coming, as
Nicky Arscott, writing for
New Welsh Review, finds
Over The Line “visually exquisite, intellectually stimulating” and says it
“offers a wide-reaching introduction to the poetry comics genre.”
She adds that
“this book
succeeds in making poetry playful, and it elevates the status of the comic through encouraging us to appraise it on the same level as we would the poetry.”
The full text of the review is open to subscribers only, which is an excellent excuse to explore new Welsh writing.
Thank you to Julia and Nicky for the fantastic in-depth, insightful reviews. Comics poetry fever is upon us!
