Reviews and Endorsements

On this page you will find reviews of Lucy Hamilton’s books:

Viewer | Viewed (published 2023)
Of Heads & Hearts (published 2018)
Stalker (published 2012)
Sonnets For My Mother (published 2009)
‘I am Twenty People!’ (anthology, published 2007)

Viewer | Viewed (2023)

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Robert Vas Dias

“When I approach experimental poetry, particularly when it’s related to images – the ekphrastic relationship – I ask myself, does it work? By that I mean, does it carry…

Of Heads & Hearts (2018)

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Kaddy Benyon

There is nobody writing prose poetry in any way close to Lucy Hamilton’s. Of Heads & Hearts is an intricate and rich collection that riffs on the interconnectedness of…

Lucy Sheerman

With each new story, this collection extends its reach and increases its hold on the reader. The work of the poet here is not to claim authority over a…

Steve Spence

These are prose poems with a difference, with an occasional breaking into verse, erudite yet full of engagement and interesting information which in no way shuts out the curious…

Stalker (2012)

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Ellen Cranitch

Hamilton’s keen curiosity about language and its etymology, consistent receptivity to place and her skilful interplay between ghosts and dream-worlds and lived life, are all abiding pleasures of the…

Another element integral to these externalised reflections of the self is chance, that prophetic driver of coincidence. Hamilton explores this in poems explicitly about her twin sister… Prophecy, too,…

Ian Seed

There is, by implication, an existential questioning of what it means to be a self. How much of what we are is defined by the way others perceive us?…

Paul Blake

Throughout the book, the narrator’s self is interrogated and investigated by being placed in front of a distorting mirror of the Other – the twin, the dream self, the…

Sonnets For My Mother (2009)

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Lucy Hamilton Poetry