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
Our Voices. Review by Julia Pascal. This mixed bill is a curious evening where the separate parts do not form an organic whole. George Balanchine’s 1947 Themes and Variations thrilled the audience who gasped when the curtain rose on tutued dancers.
Sarah Lucas: Happy Gas. Review by Graham Buchan. It is clear from this retrospective of Sarah Lucas’s thirty-five year career that an obsession with tits, toilets, cigarettes, shoes and chairs informs much of her work.
The Lorenza Mazzetti Collection. Review by Alan Price. Franz Kafka was a major influence on director Lorenzi Mazzetti (1927 – 2020). Kafka’s real and fictional sense of anxiety and persecution helped to both disguise then channel the trauma of Mazzetti’s childhood.
We Want To Be Sung To While We Drown Poetry review – NEPTUNE’S PROJECTS: Guy Russell surveys an ambitious collection by Rishi Dastidar which is in effect an elegy for our world
Poetry review – HAWK’S CRY: Charles Rammelkamp considers a collection by Mary Pacifico Curtis which reflects on the fraught relationship between ourselves and our planet
Poetry review – GIFTS OF THE DARK: John Mole follows Simon Bowden on his journey through serious illness and toward recovery
Interrogation (Bugajski). Review by Alan Price. Two thirds of the way through Interrogation (1982) the police interrogator tells his female prisoner not to be so naïve to belief that her husband and friends couldn’t be complicit in informing on others, betraying their loved ones: for this is how the world works and she needs to wake up to the fact that “there is no unconditional honesty.”
Poetry review – PATERSON: Alwyn Marriage considers a re-issue of the monumental and unfinished epic by William Carlos Williams
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, poetry reviews, year 2023 0 • Tags: Alwyn Marriage, books, poetry