Book Reviews

Saturday Review: “The Map That Leads To Salvation” a review by Annie Woodford
Kelley Shinn: The Wounds That Bind Us (2023) in NCLR Online Winter 2024

Saturday Review: “Shining A Light On History” a review by Amanda M. Capelli of Kianna Alexander’s Carolina Built (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2024

Saturday Review: “For Those Who Cannot Yet Speak” a review by Melinda Thomsen of AE Hines Any Dumb Animal (2021) in NCLR Online Winter 2024 Hines brings his own artistic voice to poems grieving the loss of the parental relationship…

Saturday Review: “Painting A Varied Picture of Art in North Carolina” a review by Heather D. Wilson of
Liza Roberts’ Art of the State: Celebrating the Visual Art of North Carolina (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2024 Since the early days, NCLR has not only promoted the work of North Carolina writers but visual artists, too.

Saturday Review: “Long Roads and Tall Pines” a review by Rebecca Duncan in NCLR Online Winter 2024.
Marjorie Hudson. Indigo Field. (2023)
Susan O’Dell Underwood. Genesis Road. (2022)

Saturday Review: “Translating The Mysterious” a review by Robert M. West of
Michael McFee’s A Long Time to Be Gone (2022) in NCLR Online Winter 2024.

Saturday Review: “Clarity, Consolation, and the end to Definition” a review by David E. Poston in NCLR Online Fall 2023.  
Wild Liar (2023) by Deborah Pope
Polishing the Glass Storm: A Sequence (2023) by Katherine Soniat.

Saturday Review: “Poems of Hope and Redemption” a review by James W. Kirkland of Scott Owens’s Prepositional (2022) in NCLR Online Fall 2023.  

With poems like “The Problem with Deciding on a Single Object to Follow the Preposition”….

Saturday Review: “A Story to Tell from North Carolina’s Past” a review by Kristina L. Knotts of David Wright Faladé’s Black Cloud Rising (2022) 

Saturday Review: “On the Bus with Al Maginnes” a review by Barbara Bennett of Fellow Survivors (2023)