London Grip Poetry Review – Matt Nicholson
Peter Ualrig Kennedy finds some interesting nuggets in a rather uneven collection by Matt Nicholson.
London Grip Poetry Review – Jane Weir
Carla Scarano reflects on Jane Weir’s collection of poems on refiguring relationships and gender roles
London Grip Poetry Review – Oliver Comins
D A Prince examines a very well-integrated collection of poems from Oliver Comins
London Grip Poetry Review – Hannah Hodgson
Martin Noutch respects the honesty with which Hannah Hodgson makes poetry out of serious illness
Charles Dickens Museum. Review by Barbara Lewis.
The museum in Doughty Street, London, has a temporary exhibition to revisit the established view that Dickens had no truck with science, presenting the discipline not so surprisingly as an extension of his concern with social justice and reform rather than abstract theory.
London Grip Poetry Review – Dawn Wood
Carla Scarano admires Dawn Wood’s poetry which deals with the healing power of imagination
London Grip Poetry Review – Kevin Densley
Martin Noutch appreciates both the playfulness and the seriousness of Kevin Densley’s collection
Honfleur: Musee Eugene Boudin and Maisons Satie. Barbara Lewis.
Born in the Normandy port of Honfleur in 1824, son of a mariner and whose dying wish was to return to the coast, Eugene Boudin had an instinctive understanding of the play of light on water and in the sky.
The Unnatural Tragedy, White Bear, London. Review by Barbara Lewis.
Writer, philosopher and English aristocrat Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673) was way ahead of her time and she knew it, writing: “I regard not so much the present but future ages”.
London Grip Poetry Review – Helen Mort
Pamela Johnson explores a small book in which the poems of Helen Mort respond to massive Arctic landscapes
Fascinating visions: Hiroshige and Turner in Rome. Review by Carla Scarano.
Views of different countries combining practical observations and ideal visions are the focus of two major exhibitions occurring in Rome: Turner: work from Tate and Hiroshige: visions from Japan.
London Grip Poetry Review – Alice Major
Roger Caldwell finds that Alice Major composes poetry with a brain as well as a heart