Poetry Review – Gone: Thomas Ovans admires Leah Fritz’s new poetry pamphlet for its craft and its honesty
Poetry Review: The Shape of a Tulip Bird. Maria C. McCarthy finds these poems of loss by Christopher Hopkins to be compelling yet almost unbearable
Poetry Review – Crawling Out and Falling Up: Fiona Sinclair waxes lyrical about the poetic gifts of Donall Dempsey
Poetry Review – Morning Walk with Dead Possum, Breakfast and Parallel Universe: Alex Josephy admits that Beth Gordon’s poems makes demands on the reader but insists that they repay time and effort
Poetry Review – Isabella: Julie Hogg admires Caroline Maldonado’s sensitive translations and re-telling of Isabella Morra’s story
Poetry Review – Dad Remember You Are Dead: Alwyn Marriage reckons that Jacqueline Saphra’s new collection is a book to wake the reader up
Poetry Review – Blue Wallpaper: John Forth is impressed by the autobiographical element in Robert Hamberger’s new collection
Social Solidarity and the Arts in Woke Times: Michael Crowley advocates against an ever-increasing subdivision of the arts into racial, age-related or gender groups for a similar audience
David Mitchell reviews A History of Water in the Middle East at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court
The Ugly Side of Beauty. Connie Woodring discusses the downside of our beauty culture as it relates to women’s physical/mental health and safety.
By Constance Woodring • history, politics, psychology, society, year 2020 • Tags: Connie Woodring., history, politics, psychology, society