Critical Essay by Roger Garfitt
[Martin Booth] is far too inclined to settle for easy answers, viz. his imitations of Crow, his intermittent sentimentality, and his rather easy recourse to the imager...
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Critical Essay by D. M. Thomas
[The Knotting Sequence is] rooted in a landscape: the hamlet of Knotting, where [Mr. Booth] lives. The first half of the book explores his feelings towards this landsca...
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Critical Essay by Vernon Scannell
Charm is not a quality that Martin Booth's poetry offers nor, I imagine, would he be flattered by any suggestion of its presence there; but … Extending...
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Critical Essay by Robert S. Haller
The poems [in The Knotting Sequence] are made up of short lines, reminiscent of haiku …, but the spirit is distinctly Western. A spare diction expresses the ...
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Critical Essay by Roger Garfitt
