Poetry review – THIS KILT OF MANY COLOURS: James Roderick Burns investigates David Bleiman’s unusually dense pamphlet
THE BEST SLAM/STAND-UP PERFORMANCE/SPOKEN WORD POETRY BOOK IN THE WORLD: David Mitchell reviews an anthology including over 70 poets edited by Jenn Hart & Clive Bernie
Poetry review – WHATSNAME STREET: Rennie Halstead explores last-century Lambeth as portrayed in Anna Robinson’s authentic and entertaining collection
Poetry review – A DISTANT HUM: Louise Warren enjoys Robin Thomas’s ability to surprise his readers
Poetry review – VIEW FROM THE VILLA DELIRIUM: D A Prince admires the generosity of spirit which inhabits Brian Docherty’s accomplished poetry
Late Constable, Royal Academy. Review by Graham Buchan. Frankly, I find it hard to imagine anyone liking the bulk of Constable’s works more than the bulk of Turner’s. The two painters, almost exact contemporaries, differed in their backgrounds and their approaches to their art.
Poetry review – TWELVE DAYS: Carla Scarano enjoys a seasonal poem and picture collaboration from Stuart Henson & Bill Sanderson
Poetry review – PHOENIX: Neil Fulwood is moved and encouraged by the spirit of reconciliation and collaboration running through this collection by Antony Owen
Spencer. Review by Graham Buchan. Pablo Larrain’s Spencer achieves a great deal that the other major bio-pic, Diana, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel and released in 2013, did not.
Director David Greene has gone on record as saying that he finds upheaval in society to be dramatic and exciting. “I like my films to be a sort of reportage of the world around the action.” For me this accurately describes the effect of his three remarkable films of the late sixties. I Start Counting (1969), The Shuttered Room (1968) and The Strange Affair (1968) reveal a brilliantly confident sense of circumvention of plot and action.
THE DIVERTED SELF: Business Class from this World to the Next. Andrew Parkin reviews PW Bridgman’s new collection IDIOLECT
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