Dance: “Tutu”. Review by Primrose MacFay. What fun! A show called “Tutu” threatens serious political attention and then turns out to be quite other, a genre-bending, gender-bending romping rampage through conventions not just of dance but of human, or – one might as well say it – sexual relations.
Poetry review – HALF OTHER: Emma Storr admires an extraordinary account of the joys and sorrows of twinship by Peter Wallis
Poetry Review – BECAUSE WE COULD NOT DANCE AT THE WEDDING: Jean Atkin discovers that these love poems by Michael McKimm benefit from his keen ear and sharp eye.
THINGS BEING VARIOUS: John Lucas discusses two very different works by Neil Curry – a monograph on Horace Walpole and a slim volume of delicate and well-observed poetry
Poetry Review – TIGER MOTH: Amelia Walker gives Róisín Tierney’s latest collection the close attention it deserves
Poetry review – SAVED TO CLOUD: Adele Ward finds the climate emergency and Covid restrictions can sit side-by-side with poems depicting a long life lived to the full in this collection by Kate Foley
CONTRAFLOW: Paul McDonald finds some surprises in a new and unusual anthology of English poetry from the last hundred years
Poetry review – THE REMAINING MEN: Pat Edwards admires Martin Figura’s poetry for having a clear purpose and achieving it
MIND AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE: John Lucas finds helpful information and some degree of comfort in James Hodgson’s primer for those trying to get to grips with AI and the issues surrounding it
Poetry review – TAXONOMIC VIGNETTES: Henry Schneiderman reviews a recent collection by Alan Cohen
Poetry review – SCREEN MEMORIES: Charles Rammelkamp considers Henry Sussman’s poetic account of his lifelong love of cinema
Poetry review – HOLLYWOOD OR HOME: Charles Rammelkamp enjoys Kathryn Gray’s excursions into the illusory world of film where the past seems to be preserved even as time moves on for the rest of us.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, film, poetry reviews, year 2024