Reviews
A collection of reviews and quotations from selected publications. Click on an image to view a full PDF version (or right-click to download a copy).
Where Beeches Surf the Hill
"This reviewer heard perhaps unconscious echoes of R. S. Thomas or, more persistently, Andrew Young. Nor is this a criticism. Kemp is his own man, he has a voice that is.."
Extract from Book Review for Dorset Magazine, October 2002Now More Quietly
"Now More Quietly gives us that sense of calmness, of taking the time to look and of appreciating what we see. For those of us rushing about in our busy lives, this might be just what we need."
Extract from Book Review in Marshwood Vale Magazine, July 2004"There are echoes, (faint) but there, of the work of Edward Thomas, Andrew Young and Edmund Blunden, but in the end John's is an individual voice, one that is grounded in our own time. And it is a good voice, too."
Extract from Book Review in Dorset Magazine, September 2004By Looking Up
"There is a profound message in each poem and one is transported into the scene it is portraying, and if one is elderly and infirm and can no longer have country walks, it brings the country to you and one is blessed."
Extract from Book Review in Marshwood Vale Magazine, March 2005
John Kemp: poems from the edge
The Dorset County Magazine
March 2006
Music of the Day: Even More Selected Poems
The Dorset County Magazine
January 2007