Poetry review – BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER: This collection by Tristram Fane Saunders tackles serious matters seriously but with a pleasingly light touch
Three Films by Yasujiro Ozu. Review by Alan Price. For anyone familiar with the work of Yasujiro Ozu, especially his magisterial Tokyo Story (1953) this set will prove to be fascinating.
Claudette Johnson’s exhibition Presence. Review by Jenny Vuglar. Johnson first came to attention in 1982 while a student at The Polytechnic Wolverhampton. Britain’s ‘black cultural renaissance’ began, not in the famous institutions of London but in the Polytechs of the north: Wolverhampton, Trent, Sunderland.
Poetry review – FORGETTING MY FATHER: Diana Cant admires the truthful details which enliven Jill Abram‘s poems of love and loss
Poetry review – DOMINUS: Charles Rammelkamp endorses Tiffany Troy’s poetic complaints against injustice
Poetry review – LATCH: Louise Warren is drawn in by these captivating poems of reminiscence by Rebecca Goss
Poetry review – PATERSON: Alwyn Marriage considers a re-issue of the monumental and unfinished epic by William Carlos Williams
Poetry review – IMPASSE FOR JULES MAIGRET: Edmund Prestwich enjoys Sean O’Brien’s atmospheric evocation of mid-twentieth century Paris
The Cinema of Powell and Pressburger / The Red Shoes. Review by Alan Price. Since the 1970’s there have been extensive tributes to Michael Powell at the NFT and BFI Southbank. Of course they also included Powell’s collaborations with Emeric Pressburger.
Poetry review – HARD DRIVE: James Roderick Burns reviews a substantial collection by Paul Stephenson that is both poignant and very personal
Poetry review – SEASONS IN THE SUN: Rennie Halstead admires Annest Gwilym’s poems exploring memories and set in the Welsh landscape
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2023 0 • Tags: books, poetry, Rennie Halstead