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New poetry collections by Sean Borodale, Karen Hughes, David John Keighley, and others by 14 May 2021 Martyn Halsall reviews collections of work by contemporary poets EACH of these seven collections of poetry could be labelled as “spiritual”, from the meditated observations of the minute as reflected in mindfulness to a more traditional Christian engagement through worship and scriptural text. Together, these books could compose a symposium, about how any faith community could engage with the convalescent world, if and when plague recedes. Sean Borodale pays microscopic attention to insects in Inmates. His poems are fragmentary, bordering on the abstract. His concentrated writing reflects close observations from a miniature world in which the human is peripheral. He sets out his writer’s role in Tick Hatchery: “To examine, / to more closely microscope the waiting”. ....