Poetry review – VOX WAH WAH: Mat Riches enjoys browsing this short, guitar-themed collection by Hilary Menos
Poetry review – 55 DEVOTIONALS (AGAINST ERASURE): Peter Daniels considers Andrew McDonnell’s poems about loss and its inevitability
Poetry review – NEW AND SELECTED POEMS: Ian Pople considers a new selection of poems by Henri Coulette (1927-1988)
Poetry review – TABLE, WINDOW: Mat Riches finds much to admire in this chapbook by Simon Richey
This handsome box set contains two Jiri Jrnka features The Czech Year (1947) and Old Czech Legends. Both are puppet animated films that reveal the mastery of Jrnka’s art though they are very different.
BODY AND SOUL : Michael Paul Hogan reviews an impressive and surprising dystopian novel by Andrew Hook
Poetry review – MATE ARIAS: Peter Daniels appreciates Lewis Buxton’s poems exploring some aspects of masculinity
Poetry review – ARRIVING BAREFOOTED: Stuart Henson enjoys a collection by Gwen Williams which deals with 19th century attempts to establish a new homeland for the Welsh in Patagonia
Poetry review – THE LIVES WE HAD BEFORE: Rachel Jeffcoat is impressed by the imagery and emotion in Vanessa Napolitano’s third collection
Poetry review – TRAVELLING LIGHT: Roger Elkin admires a rich collection of travel-inspired poems by Alwyn Marriage
Nuts in May. Review by Alan Price. Hard to think of many comedy films set on a campsite. There may be some interesting European cinema out there, but I’ve not come across it. We have to return to 1976 and Mike Leigh’s hilarious TV play Nuts in May all about a camping trip that goes horribly wrong.
WIVES AND WOMEN: Dale Scherfling reflects on Ernest Hemingway’s life through the women who helped shape it — seeing them not as supporting characters, but as individuals
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