Reviews, Reviewees - R

Adrienne Rich
(Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi and Albert Gelpi (Eds.), Adrienne Rich's Poetry: Texts of the Poems, The Poet on Her Work, Reviews and Criticism)

Reviewed by Eric Homberger (1977)

Adrienne Rich
(An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-91)

Reviewed by Richard Francis (1992)

Adrienne Rich
(The Best American Poetry)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (1997)

Adrienne Rich
(Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations)

Reviewed by Andy Brown (2002)

Adrienne Rich
(The School Among the Ruins)

Reviewed by Helena Nelson (2006)

Adrienne Rich
(The School among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004)

Reviewed by Vicki Bertram (2006)

Adrienne Rich
(Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (2010)

Adrienne Rich
(Tonight No Poetry Will Serve. Poems, 2007-2010)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (2011)

Adrienne Rich
(Poetry and Prose, ed. Albert Gelpi, Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi and Brett C. Millier)

Reviewed by Ian Pople (2018)

Christopher Ricks
(True Friendship. Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell Under the Sign of Eliot and Pound )

Reviewed by Matías Serra Bradford (2011)

Edgell Rickword
(Behind the Eyes, Collected Poems and Translations)

Reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1978)

Edgell Rickword
(Literature in Society: Essays and Opinions (II) 1931-78, edited by Alan Young)

Reviewed by Michael Cayley (1980)

Laura Riding
(Selected Poems: in Five Sets by Laura Riding)

Reviewed by Mark Jacobs (1980)

Laura Riding
(First Awakenings: The Early Poems, edited by Elizabeth Friedmann, Alan J. Clark and Robert Nye)

Reviewed by Helen Carr (1993)

Laura Riding
(A Selection of the Poems, edited by Robert Nye)

Reviewed by Richard Francis (1994)

Anne Ridler
(A Measure of English Poetry)

Reviewed by Neil Powell (1992)

Anne Ridler
(Memoirs)

Reviewed by Grevel Lindop (2005)

Oktay Rifat
(Voices of Memory: Selected Poems of Oktay Rifat, translated by Ruth Christie and Richard McKane)

Reviewed by James Kirkup (1994)

Michael Riffaterre
(Semiotics of Poetry)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1981)

Denise Riley
(Mop Mop Georgette)

Reviewed by David Herd (1995)

Denise Riley
(Selected Poems)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (2001)

Denise Riley
(Lurex)

Reviewed by Declan Ryan (2022)

John Riley
(Selected Poems)

Reviewed by James Keery (1997)

Peter Riley
(Tracks and Mineshafts and Two Essays)

Reviewed by Geoffrey Ward (1984)

Peter Riley
(Alstonefield and Distant Points)

Reviewed by James Keery (1998)

Peter Riley
(A Meeting for Douglas Oliver and 27 Uncollected Poems, edited by Peter Riley and Wendy Mulford)

Reviewed by Kate Price (2003)

Peter Riley
(Alstonefield and Aria with Small Lights)

Reviewed by David Kennedy (2004)

Peter Riley
(The Dance at Mociu)

Reviewed by John Muckle (2004)

Peter Riley
(Excavations)

Reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2005)

Peter Riley
(The Glacial Stairway)

Reviewed by Oliver Dixon (2012)

Peter Riley
(Pennine Tales)

Reviewed by Kelvin Corcoran (2017)

Rainer Maria Rilke
(Selected Poems, translated from the German and Commentary by Robert Bly )

Reviewed by Raymond Hargreaves (1982)

Rainer Maria Rilke
(Duino Elegies, translated by Stephen Cohn)

Reviewed by Michael Hofmann (1990)

Rainer Maria Rilke
(Orchard, translated by Peter Oram and Alex Barr and Selected Poems, new translation by Susan Ranson and Marielle Southerland)

Reviewed by Andrew Shanks (2012)

Rainer Maria Rilke
(New Poems translated by Len Krisak)

Reviewed by Jack Hanson (2016)

Arthur Rimbaud
(A Season in Hell and other Poems. Translated by Norman Cameron, with a preface by Michael Hamburger)

Reviewed by Cecily Mackworth (1995)

Arthur Rimbaud
(Illuminations: translated with a preface by John Ashbery)

Reviewed by Matthew Creasy (2012)

Arthur Rimbaud
(The Poems, bilingual edition edited, introduced and translated by Oliver Bernard )

Reviewed by John Taylor (2013)

Luise Rinser
(Prison Journal, translated by Michael Hulse)

Reviewed by Harry Guest (1989)

Maurice Riordan
(Floods)

Reviewed by Julian Stannard (2001)

Maurice Riordan
(The Water Stealer)

Reviewed by Rebecca Watts (2014)

Alesander Ristovic
(Devil's Lunch, translated by Charles Simic)

Reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2000)

Yannis Ritsos
(Subterranean Horses, translated by Minas Savvas)

Reviewed by Richard Stoneman (1983)

Yannis Ritsos
(Exile and Return, translated by Edmund Keeley)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1990)

Yannis Ritsos
(The Fourth Dimension, translated and introduced by Peter Green and Beverly Bardsley)

Reviewed by Edmund Prestwich (1994)

Yannis Ritsos
(Monochords)

Reviewed by Rowland Bagnall (2023)

M.V.B. Riviere
(Late in the Day)

Reviewed by Dick Davis (1983)

Michael Riviere
(Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Dick Davis (1985)

Sam Riviere
(81 Austerities)

Reviewed by David Hayden (2013)

Sam Riviere
(Conflicted Copy)

Reviewed by Hal Coase (2025)

Rakhshan Rizwan
(Paisley)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2019)

E.M. Roach
(The Flowering Rock)

Reviewed by Ruth Morse (1994)

Alain Robbe-Grillet
(The Erasers)

Reviewed by Peter Hazeldine (1988)

Michael Robbins
( Alien vs. Predator)

Reviewed by Adam Crothers (2013)

Michael Roberts
(Selected Poems and Prose, ed. Frederick Grubb)

Reviewed by C.J. Fox (1981)

Michael Roberts
(T. E. Hulme)

Reviewed by Ian Crowther (1983)

Michael Symmons Roberts
(Raising Sparks)

Reviewed by Ian Pople (1999)

Michael Symmons Roberts
(Burning Babylon)

Reviewed by Ian Pople (2002)

Michael Symmons Roberts
(Drysalter)

Reviewed by John Dennison (2013)

Michael Symmons Roberts
(Selected Poems)

Reviewed by David Spittle (2016)

Michael Symmons Roberts
(Deaths of the Poets)

Reviewed by Tony Roberts (2017)

Michael Symmons Roberts
(Mancunia)

Reviewed by Hilary Davies (2018)

Michael Symmons Roberts
(Ransom)

Reviewed by Oliver Dixon (2022)

Michèle Roberts
(The Visitation)

Reviewed by Carol Shergold (1985)

Michèle Roberts

Reviewed by David Kennedy (1991)

Michèle Roberts
(Quarantine)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2021)

Neil Roberts
(Ted Hughes: A Critical Study - with Terry Gifford)

Reviewed by Elizabeth Waltheer (1982)

Neil Roberts
(Ted Hughes: A Literary Life)

Reviewed by Barry Wood (2008)

Tony Roberts
(Flowers of the Hudson Bay)

Reviewed by George Parfitt (1992)

Eric Robertson
(Blaise Cendrars: The Invention of Life)

Reviewed by Roger Little (2023)

Robin Robertson
(The Long Take)

Reviewed by John Challis (2018)

Robin Robertson
(Grimoire )

Reviewed by Joey Connolly (2021)

Alan Robinson
(Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry )

Reviewed by John Crick (1990)

Anna Robinson
(The Finders of London)

Reviewed by Vidyan Ravinthiran (2011)

E.A. Robinson
(The Poetry of E.A. Robinson, Selected and with an Introduction and Notes by Robert Mezey)

Reviewed by Ben Sonnenberg (1999)

Ian Robinson
(Prayers for the New Babel: a criticism of the Church of England Alternative Service Book 1980 )

Reviewed by C.H. Sisson (1983)

Jack Robinson
(by the same author)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2016)

Peter Robinson
(Overdrawn Account)

Reviewed by Eric Griffiths (1984)

Peter Robinson
(This Other Life)

Reviewed by Andrew Shelley (1988)

Peter Robinson
(Entertaining Fates)

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

Peter Robinson
(About Time Too)

Reviewed by James Sutherland-Smith (2001)

Peter Robinson
(Ravishing Europa)

Reviewed by Tim Dooley (2019)

W.W. Robson
(The Definition of Literature and other Essays)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)

Patsy Rodenburg
(The Need for Words: Voice And The Text, with a foreword by Antony Sher)

Reviewed by T.J.G. Harris (1995)

Allan Rodway
(The Craft of Criticism)

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (1983)

Theodore Roethke
(Selected Poems, edited by Edward Hirsch)

Reviewed by Jeffrey Meyers (2006)

Mercedes Roffé
(Like the Rains Come)

Reviewed by Trevor Barnett (2009)

Jane Rogers
(The Ice is Singing)

Reviewed by Lyn Webster (1989)

Neil Rollinson
(Spanish Fly)

Reviewed by John Redmond (2002)

Stephen Romer
(Plato's Ladder)

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

Stephen Romer
(Tribute)

Reviewed by Ian Pople (1999)

Stephen Romer
(Twentieth Century French Poems, edited by Stephen Romer)

Reviewed by Patrick Quinn (2002)

Stephen Romer
(Yellow Studio)

Reviewed by Tony Roberts (2009)

Rupert Roopnaraine
(Suite for Supriya)

Reviewed by Ruth Morse (1994)

Dilys Rose
(Stone the Crows)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2020)

Jacqueline Rose
(The Haunting of Sylvia Plath)

Reviewed by Eavan Boland (1991)

Catie Rosemurgy
(The Stranger Manual)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2011)

Isaac Rosenberg
(Poetry out of My Own Heart - Unpublished Letters, edited by Jean Liddiard)

Reviewed by Roger Caldwell (2008)

Jean-Pierre Rosnay
(I Have Invented Nothing)

Reviewed by Ross Cogan (2021)

Alan Ross
(After Pusan)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1996)

Alan Ross
(Winter Sea)

Reviewed by Peter Bland (1998)

Felicity Rosslyn
(Pope's Iliad, a Selection, edited by Felicity Rosslyn)

Reviewed by Charles Tomlinson (1986)

Felicity Rosslyn
(Tragic Plots: A New Reading from Aeschylus to Lorca, Studies in European Cultural Transition, Volume 9 )

Reviewed by Nicolas Tredell (2001)

Wendy Rosslyn
(The prince, the fool and the nunnery: religion and love in the early poetry of Anna Akhmatova)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1984)

Murray Roston
(Sixteenth-century English Literature)

Reviewed by Fraser Steel (1984)

Joseph Roth
(Tarabas, translated from the German by Winifred Katzin)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1989)

Joseph Roth
(The Spider's Web and Zipper and his Father, translated from the German by John Hoare)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1989)

Jerome Rothenberg
(Retrievals: Uncollected & New Poems 1955-2010)

Reviewed by Scott Thurston (2012)

Eric Rothstein
(Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Poetry 1660-1780, Volume 3 of 'The Routledge History of English Poetry)

Reviewed by John Clarke (1982)

Jacques Roubaud
(Some Thing Black, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1993)

Anne Rouse
(Sunset Grill)

Reviewed by Richard Francis (1993)

Anne Rouse
(Sunset Grill and Timing)

Reviewed by John O'Donoghue (2001)

Raymond Roussel
(Selections from Certain of his Books, Translated by John Ashbery, Harry Mathews, Martin Sorrell and Antony Melville)

Reviewed by Miles Champion and Matthew Hodges (1992)

Albert Rowe
(The Boy and the Painter: Scenes from Alfred Wallis's St Ives)

Reviewed by Alison Oldham (2004)

Elisabeth Rowe
(Surface Tension)

Reviewed by James McGrath (2005)

John Rowlands
(Profiles: a visitor's guide to writing in twentieth-century Wales)

Reviewed by Sam Adams (1982)

Claude Royet-Journoud
(Four Elemental Bodies, translated from the French by Keith Waldrop )

Reviewed by John Taylor (2013)

Tadeusz Różewicz

Reviewed by Deborah Mitchell (1979)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1983)

Tadeusz Różewicz
(They Came to See a Poet: Selected Poems . Revised and enlarged edition. Translated by Adam Czerniawski)

Reviewed by Chris Miller (2005)

Mark Rudman
(Sundays on the Phone)

Reviewed by David C. Ward (2006)

Anthony Rudolf
(At An Uncertain Hour: Primo Levi's war against oblivion)

Reviewed by John Pilling (1991)

Ivan Ruff
(Dead Reckoning)

Reviewed by Marghanita Laski (1987)

Carol Rumens
(Unplayed Music)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1981)

Carol Rumens
(Star Whisper)

Reviewed by Steven Tuohy (1984)

Carol Rumens
(Scenes from the Gingerbread House)

Reviewed by Dick Davis (1984)

Carol Rumens
(Thinking of Skins: New and Selected Poems)

Reviewed by Matthew Francis (1994)

Carol Rumens
(Best China Sky)

Reviewed by Matthew Francis (1996)

Carol Rumens
(Poems 1968-2004)

Reviewed by Sasha Dugdale (2006)

Carol Rumens
(Self into Song)

Reviewed by Gavin Hudson (2007)

Carol Rumens
(De Chirico's Threads)

Reviewed by Emma Hogan (2012)

Carol Rumens
(Bezdelki)

Reviewed by Rory Waterman (2019)

Rumi
(The Masnavi, Book 1, translated by Jawid Mojaddedi)

Reviewed by Eric Ormsby (2006)

Peter Russell
(Quintilii Apocalypseos Fragmenta)

Reviewed by Paul Merchant (1988)

Maurice Rutherford
(Love is a Four-Letter Word)

Reviewed by Steven Blyth (1995)

Maurice Rutherford
(And Saturday Is Christmas )

Reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (2013)

Declan Ryan
(Faber New Poets 12)

Reviewed by Alison Brackenbury (2015)

Declan Ryan
(Fighters, Losers)

Reviewed by Paul McLoughlin (2021)

Declan Ryan
(Crisis Actor)

Reviewed by Hilary Menos (2024)

Gig Ryan
(The Last Interior)

Reviewed by Michael Hulse (1987)

Martin Ryle
(To Relish the Sublime? Culture and Self-realization in Postmodern Times)

Reviewed by Tim Rawson (2003)

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