Boa is proud to present our roundup of book reviews from Summer 2026. Check out the reviews below to see what people are saying about Boa’s talented authors!
Splashed Things By Leigh Lucas
“A Review of Splashed Things by Leigh Lucas,” by Blake Chapman
From the review: “Lucas’ chaotic introspection into love and loss as something more than binary states of being makes Splashed Things a sterling debut collection. Just when you think that sorrow has passed, she pulls out more small snapshots of a life, a lover, with such clarity that you’re overcome with emotion again and again.”
“Biblio File: What to Read Now — Summer 2026,” by Stanford Magazine
From the article: “In her debut poetry collection, Leigh Lucas, ’10, explores the rocky landscape of grief following the suicide of an ex-boyfriend, recalling memories triggered in unlikely places.”
“A Review of Leigh Lucas’s Splashed Things,” by John Kuligowski
From the review: “Leigh’s collection has a remarkably fluid quality. The content of one poem spills and puddles into the next, the work’s meaning cumulative rather than immediate. None of the pieces comprising Leigh’s full-length debut are titled, and each of them gives the impression of notes written for various purposes: sometimes to recollect, at others to purge or to heal, and sometimes, justifiably, out of anger.”
August, September, October By Craig Morgan Teicher
“May ’26 Reading Roundup,” by New England Review
Featured on their May 2026 reading list of NER Authors.
