* The Autumn 2022 issue of LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY features: *Michael W. Thomas *Hilary Mellon *Lisa Reily *Lesley Burt *Bruce Barnes *Anna Mioduchowska *Martin Bennett *Robert Cole *Alan Dunnett *Josh Ekroy * Sarah Lawson *Philip Dunkerley *Michael Caylo-Baradi *Maria C. McCarthy *Simon Alderwick *Pam Thompson *Judith Wozniak *Rustin Larson *Tony Dawson *Clifford Liles *Marilyn Ricci […]
Poetry review – THE PLEASURE OF FIRING BACK: Janice Dempsey considers the two contrasting halves of Graham Buchan’s new collection
50 of Tel Aviv’s Most Intriguing Streets. The Lives Behind the Names. Text by Miryam Sivan, Photographs by Ziv Koren. Curated by Ellin Yassky. Published by Gefen, Jerusalem & New York. Maror by Lavie Tidhar. Published by Head Zeus. Two book reviews with Israeli themes, by Julia Pascal.
Poetry review – WHAT THE SHEEP TAUGHT ME: Wendy Kyle considers Mary Mulholland’s debut pamphlet
Robert Bresson: L’Argent and The Trial of Joan of Arc. Review by Alan Price. Of all the great film makers of the 20th century Robert Bresson was the most solely spiritual. His camera revealed what was concealed: a cinematic representation, or more subtly an apprehension, of what we would call the soul of his characters.
Poetry review – INTERSTELLAR THEME PARK: Charles Rammelkamp accompanies Jack Skelley down a pop-culture memory lane
Poetry review – THE METAL EXCHANGE: Carla Scarano reviews David Cooke’s exploration of humanity’s complicated relationship with metals
THE NAKED WORLD: Sue Wallace-Shaddad follows Irina Mashinski on her autobiographical journey in prose and poetry
Poetry review – THE TALKING STICK: Pat Edwards feels moved and enriched by Raine Geoghegan’s poems of Romany life
Poetry review – PARIS BILE: Nell Prince finds that Baudelaire’s grimly vivid prose poems are well-served by new translations from James Roderick Burns
Casa Balla. Review by Carla Scarano. Giacomo Balla was an Italian painter, who moved with his family to 39b, via Oslavia, near piazza Mazzini, in June 1929. Balla, his wife, Elisa, and his daughters, Luce and Elica, transformed the house into a work of art, a workshop of sorts in which he experimented with his futurist theories.
Poetry review – EXTREMELY AGGRESSIVE UNEDUCATED & ROUGH: Carla Scarano examines a collection by Hannah Maria Stanislaus which is highly personal and rather out of the ordinary
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