A review by sergeantnicholasangel
Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem. Compiled by Harold Schechter and Kurt Brown by Harold Schechter, Kurt Brown

challenging dark informative reflective tense

3.0

I enjoyed some poems more than others, but I liked the collection overall. My favourites were: 'Knife' by Ruth Sharman; 'Pearl Bryan' by Anon; 'Stackalee' by Anon; 'The Chop Shop' by Tony Barnstone; 'The Assassin's Fatal Error' by Lawrence Raab; 'The Murder Suspect, Moments Before He Is Confronted By Police' by David Starkey; 'The Assassin's Morning' by J.J. Steinfeld; 'Black Widow' by Gail White; 'Porphyria's Lover' by Robert Browning; 'With Or Without Milk' by Philip Dacey; 'The Inquest' by W.H. Davies; 'Charlie Howard's Descent' by Mark Doty; and 'Killers In Letters' by Ravi Shankar.