The Nova Exhibition. Review by Graham Buchan. On entering this exhibition visitors are invited to sit on a wooden bench and watch a 5-minute video of revellers at the Nova Music Festival. On the screen are dancers, quite possibly off their heads, arms in the air and smiling from ear to ear.
Poetry review – INTIMATE ARCHITECTURE: Jennifer Johnson admires Tess Jolly’s adroit use of language in poems that explore memory and imagination
Poetry review – DEAD LETTERS: Rosie Johnston admires a collection of elegant and generous poems by Carole Coates
Poetry review – SUBLIME LUNGS: Paul McDonald is impressed by the powerful imagery and inventive language in this collection by Kate Noakes, which deals honestly with chronc illness
Poetry review – THE BAY: Charles Rammelkamp discovers perceptive insights and observations in David Dodd Lee’s new collection
Refik Anadol. Review by Barbara Lewis. Bruges has no need of more tourists and its art hall BRUSK, which opened in May, does not share the ambition of Bilbao’s Guggenheim to put a city on the map.
Poetry review – THE 50, VOLUME 2: Charles Rammelkamp relishes some broad and pretty unsubtle humor in an anthology edited by J.T. Whitehead
Poetry review – THE CHEMISTRY OF EMOTION: Madeleine O’Beirne responds to a joint collection by Fiona Perry & Stephen Paul Wren
Poetry review – TIPS FOR COLLECTORS OF THE MACABRE: Pat Edwards finds that Jennie E Owen can make engaging poetry out of seemingly unpromising subject matter
Poetry review – BIRDMEN AND ASTRONAUTS: Sarah Leavesley is intrigued by the layers of meaning in a new collection by Dharmavadana
Poetry review – EMERGENCY DREAM: Pat Edwards admires the way that Polly Atkin’s poetry links the personal with wider societal and global issues
Romeo and Juliet. Review by Barbara Lewis. Even in times when women are cast as Shakespeare’s Lear and Prospero, it’s a bold move to do the same with Romeo – the byword for the romantic male lover. It’s the tactic of Greenwich Theatre’s artistic director James Haddrell, who has also dared to compete for audience attention with the World Cup and heatwave weather in what is billed as fresh, summer Shakespeare.
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