Small Birds Singing by Matthew Welton; The Channel by Jana Prikryl; Stepmother by Helen Mort; Drunken Driving by Martina Evans Small Birds Singing by Matthew Welton (Carcanet, £12. 99) Written in unrhymed couplets that shrink and grow across the page like a concertina going through its scales, We...
Source: [Guardian International](https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/31/the-best-recent-poetry-review-roundup)