Arp, The poetry of Forms is a major retrospective of an artist whose work seeks to captures abstract thought. This exhibition is contrasted by Tracey Emin’s My bed and her selection of Turner sea-scapes, that deal with a more visceral response to life.
Britain’s art galleries and museums* face an uncertain future. They are operating in a national climate of cuts and austerity and, according to Stephen Deuchar, Director of the Art Fund, stand to lose international arts partnerships and European streams of funding after our departure from the EU.
Roger Caldwell considers an impressively substantial volume of poems by Robert Desnos with translations by Timothy Adès
John Forth investigates the thinking behind the poems in Peter Bland’s latest collection
Peter Ualrig Kennedy finds real depths in Chris Hardy’s recent collection.
Thomas Ovans looks at myth and reality as handled in a debut pamphlet from Kitty Coles
To most Britons, P.G. Wodehouse is known as the creator of quaint, comic novels starring the blundering upper class twit Bertie Wooster and his astute valet Jeeves. He also contributed lyrics and stories to a wealth of musicals and his step great grandson, the opera singer Hal Cazalet, who as a child slept in a room beneath the Wodehouse archive, tells us he only got to know P.G. Wodehouse’s prose through the song lyrics.
Hansel and Gretel was originally written by The Brothers’ Grimm in 1912. It is a folk tale, showing how a brother and sister avoid being eaten alive by a witch in the gingerbread house. It is a tale that seems to foreshadow the Third Reich.
Wayne McGregor is the choreographer of the moment, the brainiest bloke on the block. That this must be so is confirmed by the scale of the recognition he receives, as much from rapturous young audiences as from battle-hardened institutions.
Emma Lee examines Mario Susko’s compassionate approach to poems about conflict
Thomas Ovans is surprised – but in a good way – by some subtle oddities in John Roe’s use of language
London Grip Poetry Review – Linnell
Graham Hardie browses an enjoyably varied chapbook collection from Maxine Linnell