Reviews, Reviewees - D

Mahmoud Darwish
(A River Dies of Thirst, translated by Catherine Cobham; If I Were Another, translated by Fady Joudah; and Mural, translated by John Berger and Rema Hammami)

Reviewed by André Naffis (2010)

Mahmoud Darwish
(Journal of an Ordinary Grief, translated by Ibraihim Muhawi)

Reviewed by André Naffis-Sahely (2011)

Najwan Darwish
(Exhausted on the Cross)

Reviewed by Evan Jones (2021)

Elizabeth Daryush
(Collected Poems, with an introduction by Donald Davie)

Reviewed by Neil Powell (1978)

Jibanananda Das
(Naked Lonely Hand: Selected Poems. Translated from the Bengali by Joe Winter)

Reviewed by Moniza Alvi (2004)

Mona Dash
(A Certain Way)

Reviewed by Yogesh Patel (2018)

Rishi Dastidar
(Ticker-Tape)

Reviewed by Yogesh Patel (2018)

Kathryn Daszkiewicz
(A Book of Follies)

Reviewed by (2018)

Tony Davenport
(Robert Hampson and Tony Davenport, editors, Ford Madox Ford: A Reappraisal)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2003)

Ian David
(A Trick of Sunlight)

Reviewed by Henry King (2008)

Ivan Davidkov
(Fires of the Sunflower, translated by Ewald Osers)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1990)

Ian Davidson
(At a Stretch and Harsh)

Reviewed by John Muckle (2004)

Donald Davie
(Collected Poems 1950-1970 and Thomas Hardy and British Poetry)

Reviewed by Michael Edwards (1974)

Donald Davie
(Pound)

Reviewed by Blake Morrison (1977)

Donald Davie
(In The Stopping Train and Other Poems)

Reviewed by Blake Morrison (1979)

Donald Davie
(A Gathered Church: The Literature of the English Dissenting Interest 1700-1930 )

Reviewed by Clyde Binfield (1979)

Donald Davie
(Trying to Explain)

Reviewed by Andrew Waterman (1981)

Donald Davie
(Three for Water-Music)

Reviewed by Andrew Howdle (1982)

Donald Davie
(Dissentient Voice)

Reviewed by Peter Robinson (1983)

Donald Davie
(Collected Poems 1971-1983 and Donald Davie and the Responsibilities of Literature, edited by George Dekker)

Reviewed by Andrew Swarbrick (1984)

Donald Davie
(Czeslaw Milosz and the Insufficiency of Lyric)

Reviewed by Henry Gifford (1987)

Donald Davie
(Under Briggflatts)

Reviewed by Neil Powell (1990)

Donald Davie
(Collected Poems)

Reviewed by Peter Robinson (1991)

Donald Davie
(Studies in Ezra Pound)

Reviewed by Clive Wilmer (1993)

Donald Davie
(The Psalms in English, Edited by Donald Davie)

Reviewed by Emma Tristram (1997)

Donald Davie
(With the Grain: Essays on Thomas Hardy and Modern British Poetry)

Reviewed by Stephen Logan (1999) Reviewed by Peter Carpenter (1999)

Donald Davie
(Purity of Diction in English Verse and Articulate Energy)

Reviewed by Julian Stannard (2008)

Damian Walford Davies
(Echoes to the Amen: Essays After R.S. Thomas, edited by Damian Walford Davies)

Reviewed by Grevel Lindop (2005)

Hilary Davies
(The Shanghai Owner of the Bonsai Shop)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (1992)

Hilary Davies
(In a Valley of This Restless Mind)

Reviewed by John Greening (1997)

Hilary Davies
(Exile and the Kingdom)

Reviewed by Grevel Lindop (2017)

Howard Davies
(Sartre and 'Les Temps Modernes')

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1989)

Idris Davies
(The Angry Summer: A Poem of 1926, with an Introduction and Notes by Tony Conran)

Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1994)

Idris Davies
(The Complete Poems ed. Dafydd Johnston)

Reviewed by Sam Adams (1996)

John Davies
(North by South)

Reviewed by Patrick McGuinness (2003)

Robertson Davies
(What's Bred in the Bone)

Reviewed by Peter Hazeldine (1986)

Stevie Davies
(The Idea of Woman in Renaissance Literature. The Feminine Reclaimed)

Reviewed by Lynne Hancock and Lyndal Roper (1989)

Dick Davis
(Seeing the World)

Reviewed by Neil Powell (1981)

Dick Davis
(Wisdom and Wilderness: The Achievement of Yvor Winters)

Reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (1984)

Dick Davis
(Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams and Touchwood)

Reviewed by Ben Downing (1997)

Armen Davoudian
(The Palace of Forty Pillars)

Reviewed by Alex Mepham (2024)

Gerald Dawe
(How's the Poetry Going?)

Reviewed by Neil Powell (1992)

Gerald Dawe
(Heart of Hearts)

Reviewed by Toby Litt (1996)

Kwame Dawes
(New and Selected Poems 1994-2002)

Reviewed by Julie Mullaney (2004)

Jane Dawson
(Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology)

Reviewed by Janet Montefiore (1997)

Adam Day
(Model of a City in Civil War)

Reviewed by Evan Jones (2016)

David Day
(The Animals Within)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1986)

Gary Day
(British Poetry 1900-50: Aspects of Tradition)

Reviewed by Janet Montefiore (1997)

George Deacon
(John Clare and the folk tradition)

Reviewed by Jonathan Barker (1984)

John F. Deane
(Walking on Water)

Reviewed by Matthew Francis (1995)

John F. Deane
(Manhandling the Deity)

Reviewed by Judy Kendall (2003)

John F. Deane
(The Instruments of Art)

Reviewed by Fred Marchant (2006)

Nichola Deane
(Trieste)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)

L.M. Dearlove
(Providence Farm)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)

Paul Deaton
(Black Knight)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)

Andrew Debicki
(Poetry of Discovery: The Spanish Generation of 1956-71)

Reviewed by David Callahan (1984)

George Dekker

Reviewed by Una Allis (1979)

Frank Delaney
(Betjeman Country)

Reviewed by Avril Horner (1986)

Greg Delanty
(Southwards)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)

Greg Delanty
(The Hellbox)

Reviewed by Michael Duggan (1998)

Greg Delanty
(Collected Poems 1986 - 2006)

Reviewed by Fiona Sampson (2007)

Greg Delanty
(The Greek Anthology Book XVII)

Reviewed by George Kalogeris (2015)

Greg Delanty
(The King of the Lam)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2021)

Mick Delap
(River Turning Tidal)

Reviewed by Judy Kendall (2004)

Edwin Denby

Reviewed by Aaron Deveson (2010)

Ned Denny
(Unearthly Toys)

Reviewed by Toby Garfitt (2019)

Ned Denny
(Ventriloquise)

Reviewed by Michael Edwards (2023)

Alan Dent
(Bedtime Story)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (1992)

Peter Dent
(Northwoods)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (1993)

Louis-René des Forêts
(The Children's Room, translated by Jean Stewart )

Reviewed by Harry Guest (1988)

Louis-René des Forêts
(Poems of Samuel Wood)

Reviewed by Ian Brinton (2012)

Robert Desnos
(A la MystÃ©rieuse / Les TÃ©nÃ¨bres)

Reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (2020)

Anne Devlin
(The Way-Paver)

Reviewed by Francis Doherty (1988)

Christopher Dewdney
(Alter Sublime)

Reviewed by Alan Halsey (1982)

Imtiaz Dharker
(Postcards from God)

Reviewed by Vona Groarke (1998)

Imtiaz Dharker
(Leaving Fingerprints)

Reviewed by Vivienne Neale (2010)

Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill
(The Astrakhan Cloak: Poems in Irish with translations into English by Paul Muldoon)

Reviewed by Kate Chisholm (1994)

Joanne Diaz
(The Little Magazine in Contemporary America eds. Ian Morris and Joanne Diaz)

Reviewed by Valerie Duff (2015)

Mohammed Dib
(Omneros)

Reviewed by Paul Coates (1982)

Susannah Dickey
(ISDAL)

Reviewed by Tara Bergin (2024)

Emily Dickinson
(The Single Hound, first edition, edited with a preface by Martha Dickinson Bianchi)

Reviewed by Jane Yeh (2006)

Peter Didsbury
(The Butchers of Hull)

Reviewed by Michael Bird (1983)

Peter Didsbury
(The Classical Farm)

Reviewed by Neil Powell (1989)

Peter Didsbury
(That Old-Time Religion)

Reviewed by David Herd (1995)

Deborah Digges
(Trapeze)

Reviewed by Judy Kendall (2005)

Kristina Dimitrova
(A Visit to the Clockmaker, translated by Gregory O'Donoghue)

Reviewed by Carmen Bugan (2006)

Mircea Dinescu
(Exile on a peppercorn, translated by Andrea Deletant and Brenda Walker)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1987)

Brett Dionysus
(papertiger: new world poetry #03, on CD-ROM, edited by Paul Hardacre & Brett Dionysus)

Reviewed by Edward Picot (2004)

Thomas M. Disch
(ABCDEFGHIJKLMNPOQRSTUVWXYZ)

Reviewed by Simon Featherstone (1982)

Tom Disch
(Here I am, There You Are, Where Were We)

Reviewed by Chris McCully (1985)

Isobel Dixon
(Weather Eye)

Reviewed by James Tink (2002)

John Dixon
(Scots Baronial)

Reviewed by Keith Silver (1992)

Mak Dizdar
(Stone Sleeper)

Reviewed by Fiona Sampson (2011)

Kirkpatrick Dobie
(Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Keith Silver (1993)

Ryan Dobran
(The Collected Letters of Charles Olson and J.H. Prynne)

Reviewed by Lewis Wynn (2018)

Rosemary Dobson
(The Three Fates & Other Poems)

Reviewed by Ruth Morse (1986)

Stephen Dobyns
(Cemetery Nights)

Reviewed by Richard Francis (1993)

Jordi Doce
(Nothing is Lost: Selected Poems, trans. Lawrence Schimel)

Reviewed by Ian Seed (2018)

Jordi Doce
(We Were Not There translated from the Spanish by Lawrence Schimel)

Reviewed by Brian Morton (2022)

Brian Docherty
(British Poetry 1900-50: Aspects of Tradition)

Reviewed by Janet Montefiore (1997)

Thomas Docherty
(After Theory: Postmodernism /postmarxism)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1990)

Paula Doe
(A Warbler's Song in the Dusk: The Life and Work of Otomo Yakamochi (718-785))

Reviewed by Dennis Keene (1983)

Michael Donaghy
(Collected Poems and The Shape of the Dance)

Reviewed by Oliver Dixon (2009)

Timothy Donnelly
(The Problem of the Many)

Reviewed by Ian Pople (2022)

Denis Donoghue
(The Sovereign Ghost: Studies in Imagination)

Reviewed by Una Allis (1979)

Maura Dooley
(Explaining Magnetism)

Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1992)

Maura Dooley
(Kissing a Bone)

Reviewed by James Sale (1997)

Maura Dooley
(Sound Barrier)

Reviewed by Rachel Elliot (2002)

Tim Dooley
(The Interrupted Dream)

Reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (1987)

Theo Dorgan
(Greek)

Reviewed by Alex Wylie (2010)

Hélène Dorion
(Seizing: Places, translated and introduced by Patrick McGuinness)

Reviewed by Lucy Sheerman (2014)

Edward Dorn

Reviewed by John Armstrong (2010)

Edward Dorn
(The Collected Letters and Edward Dorn and Leroy Lucas, The Shoshoneans)

Reviewed by Alex Latter (2014)

Edward Dorn
(Derelict Air: From Collected Out)

Reviewed by John Muckle (2015)

Mark Doty
(Sweet Machine)

Reviewed by Matthew Welton (1999)

Mark Doty
(Deep Lane)

Reviewed by Gregory Woods (2016)

James Dougherty
(The Fivesquare City: The City in the Religious Imagination)

Reviewed by David J. Levy (1981)

Keith Douglas
(Keith Douglas: A Biography, Desmond Graham)

Reviewed by Roger Garfitt (1975)

Keith Douglas
(The Letters, edited by Desmond Graham)

Reviewed by Tim Kendall (2001)

Richard Dove
(Aus einem früheren Leben: Gedichte Englisch/ Deutsch [From an Earlier Life: Poems English/German])

Reviewed by Joyce Crick (2005)

Rita Dove
(Mother Love)

Reviewed by Justin Quinn (1996)

Rita Dove
(American Smooth)

Reviewed by Helena Nelson (2006)

Joan Downar
(The Empire of Light)

Reviewed by Dick Davis (1985)

Freda Downie
(A Stranger Here)

Reviewed by Paul Wilkins (1978)

Freda Downie
(Plainsong)

Reviewed by Neil Powell (1982)

Freda Downie
(Collected Poems)

Reviewed by Sophie Hannah (1995)

Freda Downie
(Collected Poems, edited by George Szirtes and There'll Always Be an England)

Reviewed by Richard Meier (2003)

Ben Downing
(The Calligraphy Shop)

Reviewed by Julia Forster (2004)

Jane Dowson
(Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle, A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry)

Reviewed by Gareth Reeves (2007)

Charles Doyle
(Richard Aldington: a Biography)

Reviewed by David Arkell (1990)

Margaret Drabble
(The Radiant Way)

Reviewed by Harry Guest (1988)

Jane Draycott
(Tideway, illustrated by Peter Hay)

Reviewed by Judith Willson (2003)

Jane Draycott
(Tideway)

Reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2003)

Jane Draycott
(The Night Tree)

Reviewed by Judy Kendall (2004)

Jon Dressel

Reviewed by Deborah Mitchell (1979)

John Drew
(The Lesser Vehicle )

Reviewed by Chris McCully (1988)

Jonty Driver
(So Far: Selected Poems 1960-2004)

Reviewed by Evan Jones (2008)

John Drury
(Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert)

Reviewed by Mark Nicholls (2013)

Louis Dudek
(The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada)

Reviewed by Evan Jones (2017)

Carol Ann Duffy
(Standing Female Nude)

Reviewed by C.B. McCully (1986)

Carol Ann Duffy
(Mean Time)

Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1993)

Carol Ann Duffy
(The World's Wife)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (2000)

Carol Ann Duffy
(Out of Fashion: An Anthology of Poems, edited by Carol Ann Duffy)

Reviewed by Zoe Lambert (2005)

Carol Ann Duffy
(The Poetry of Carol Ann Duffy: 'Choosing Tough Words', edited by Angelica Michelis and Antony Rowland)

Reviewed by Barry Woods (2006)

Ella Duffy
(Rootstalk)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2022)

Nikolai Duffy
(Relative Strangeness: Reading Rosmarie Waldrop)

Reviewed by Ian Seed (2014)

Alan Dugan

Reviewed by David C. Ward (2002)

Norman Dugdale
(Running Repairs)

Reviewed by Steven Tuohy (1984)

Sasha Dugdale
(Notebook)

Reviewed by Tony Roberts (2005)

Sasha Dugdale
(The Estate)

Reviewed by Tony Roberts (2007)

Sasha Dugdale
(Joy)

Reviewed by Maitreyabandhu (2018)

Sasha Dugdale
(Deformations)

Reviewed by Declan Ryan (2021)

Sasha Dugdale
(The Strongbox)

Reviewed by Rebecca Hurst (2025)

Laurie Duggan
(The Home Paddock)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1994)

Arjen Duinker
(The Sublime Song of a Maybe)

Reviewed by Ian Pople (2003)

Edouard Dujardin
(The Bays are Sere and Interior Monologue, introduced and translated by Anthony Suter)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1992)

Paul Laurence Dunbar
(The life and times of a caged bird)

Reviewed by James Campbell (2022)

Andrew Duncan
(Pauper Estate and Switching and Main Exchange)

Reviewed by Elizabeth Eger (2003)

Andrew Duncan
(Savage Survivals amid Modern Suavity)

Reviewed by John Muckle (2007)

Andrew Duncan
(A Poetry Boom 1990â2010)

Reviewed by Michael Daniels (2017)

Robert Duncan
(Selected Poems edited by Robert J. Bertholf)

Reviewed by Richard Francis (1994)

Robert Duncan
(The Collected Early Poems and Plays, edited and with an introduction by Peter Quartermain)

Reviewed by Gregory Woods (2014)

Robert Duncan
(Collected Essays and Other Prose. Edited and with an Introduction by James Maynard)

Reviewed by Aram Saroyan (2014)

Ronald Duncan
(Collected Poems)

Reviewed by Ian McMillan (1982)

Camille Dungy
(Trophic Cascade)

Reviewed by Ian Pople (2017)

Helen Dunmore
(Recovering a Body)

Reviewed by Matthew Francis (1994)

Helen Dunmore
(The Malarkey )

Reviewed by Aime Williams (2013)

Helen Dunmore
(Inside the Wave)

Reviewed by Sue Leigh (2017)

Helen Dunmore
(Counting Backwards: Poems 1975â2017)

Reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (2019) Reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (2019)

Antony Dunn
(Pilots and Navigators)

Reviewed by Ian Tromp (1999)

Douglas Dunn
(Europa's Lover)

Reviewed by Dick Davis (1984)

Douglas Dunn
(The Noise of a Fly)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2018)

Roxy Dunn
(Clowning)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2017)

Stephen Dunn
(Different Hours)

Reviewed by Roger Caldwell (2002)

Stephen Dunn
(Local Visitations)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (2006)

Stephen Dunn
(The Insistence of Beauty)

Reviewed by Nick Telfer (2006)

Sean Dunne
(Collected)

Reviewed by Heather Clark (2006)

Jacques Dupin
(Selected Poems, translated by Paul Auster, Stephen Romer and David Shapiro)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1993)

Rachel Blau DuPlessis
(The Oppens Remembered, edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis)

Reviewed by Ian Davidson (2017)

Marguerite Duras
(The Sea Wall)

Reviewed by Kevin Taylor (1988)

Marguerite Duras
(La Douleur, translated by Barbara Bray and Outside, translated by Arthur Goldhammer)

Reviewed by Philip Terry (1989)

Paul Durcan
(The Selected Paul Durcan, ed. Edna Longley)

Reviewed by Andrew Swarbrick (1983)

Paul Durcan
(The Berlin Wall Café )

Reviewed by C.B. McCully (1986)

Paul Durcan
(Daddy, Daddy)

Reviewed by Matthew Campbell (1991)

Paul Durcan
(A Snail in My Prime: New and Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Kate Chisholm (1993)

Paul Durcan
(Christmas Day)

Reviewed by Vona Groarke (1997)

Paul Durcan
(Cries of an Irish Caveman: New Poems)

Reviewed by Michael Kinsella (2004)

Paul Durcan
(The Days of Surprise)

Reviewed by Joey Connolly (2016)

Michael J. Durkan
(Seamus Heaney: A Bibliography, 1959- 2003)

Reviewed by Dennis O'Driscoll (2008)

Robert M. Durling
(Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime sparse and Other Lyrics, translated and edited )

Reviewed by John Paul Russo (1979)

Lawrence Durrell
(Selected Poems, ed. Alan Ross)

Reviewed by Nick Rhodes (1979)

Lawrence Durrell
(Collected Poems 1931-1974)

Reviewed by Jem Poster (1981)

Friedrich Dürrenmatt
(The Execution of Justice, translated from the German by John E. Woods)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1990)

G.F. Dutton
(The Concrete Garden)

Reviewed by Tess Lewis (1992)

G.F. Dutton
(Harvesting the Edge. Some personal explorations from a marginal garden)

Reviewed by Michael Hamburger (1995)

G.F. Dutton
(The Bare Abundance, Selected Poems 1975-2001)

Reviewed by Matt Bryden (2002)

Martin Duwell
(The Best Australian Poetry 2003, edited by Bronwyn Lea and Martin Duwell)

Reviewed by Richard King (2004)

Sue Dymoke
(The New Girls)

Reviewed by Kate Keogan (2006)

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