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Poetry review – AFTER THE MIRACLE: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs admires the clarity and the intensity of Richard Meier’s poems
Poetry review – DISTANCE TO INFINITY: Charles Rammelkamp commends g emil reutter’s willingness to issue vigorous poetic warnings about dictatorships around the world and especially in the USA
Eyes Without a Face. Review by Alan Price. The BFI’s transfer (containing extra shorts, new commentary and a documentary) is the best print I’ve ever seen of a masterwork that’s both acutely painful yet tenderly poetic.
Poetry review – COMPASS LIGHT: Stuart Henson suggests that the poetry of Hilary Davies might be seen as sacred music for a secular world Compass Light Hilary Davies Renard Press ISBN 978-1-80447-159-3 £10 ‘SANS DIEU RIEN’ says the clock at Ingatestone Hall, the Tudor manor house in Essex: a motto that speaks […]
Poetry review – FABRICS, FANCIES & FENS: Caroline Maldonado considers a diverse but consistently accessible collection by Gerald Killingworth
Poetry review – FOR THE DURATION: Jim Greenhalf finds much to admire in a new collection by Nicholas Bielby
Lee Miller. Tate Britain. Review by Graham Buchan. Tate Britain’s new show is the largest ever exhibition of Miller’s work and we get to know what a remarkable and varied life she had.
Mistero Buffo. Review by Barbara Lewis. Do we need to believe something to make it real? Conversely, if we believe something, does it become real? The question is central to our post-truth times and to Dario Fo’s daring questioning of blind faith that was for years banned as blasphemous.
Short Sharp Shocks. Review by Alan Price. Overall it’s fascinating to see what kind of films the BFI once commissioned and TV stations slipped onto their schedules. Mario Zampi’s reputation rests on three classic comedies, The Naked Truth, Laughter in Paradise and Too Many Crooks.
Poetry review – UNSUNG: Pat Edwards admires Emma Purshouse’s skill in making poems from the stuff of everyday life
Blue/Orange, Review by Barbara Lewis. In the quarter of a century since the first staging of Joe Penhall’s exploration of how the system fails to serve the most vulnerable and potentially most dangerous in society horribly little progress has been made in delivering reform.
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