Poetry review – ALONENESS IS A MANY-HEADED BIRD: Wendy Klein finds a collaborative collection by Rosie Jackson and Dawn Gorman to be compulsive reading
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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, Charles Rammelkamp, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – ZOMBIES AT THE DISCO: Charles Rammelkamp gets to know quite a lot about Alison Stone through her autobiographical ghazals
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, P W Bridgman, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – THE KINDNESS OF THE EEL: P.W. Bridgman finds both magic and hope at the heart of Ben Ray’s poetry
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, poetry, Rennie Halstead • 0 Comments
Poetry review – BLUE TO THE EDGE: Rennie Halstead engages with a collection of very personal poems by Brian Docherty
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, poetry, Stephen Claughton • 0 Comments
Poetry review – SEHNSUCHT: Stephen Claughton admires Christine McNeill’s intriguing and enigmatic poems
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – STREET LIGHT AMBER: James Roderick Burns admires the way that Noel Duffy weaves atmospheric urban poetry around the story of a troubled relationship
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A fellow pupil of Leipzig master Bernhard Heisig is the artist ANTOINETTE, who uses only her first name written in capitals. In common with Rauch and other Leipzig artists, she combines meticulous representation with the fantastic or surreal.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: Alex Josephy, books, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – CALL AND RESPONSE : Alex Josephy reviews a sonnet sequence by Rachel Spence which deals sensitively with a mother-daughter relationship during illness
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, Maggie Butt, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – ALICE AND THE NORTH : Maggie Butt finds vibrant honesty in Anne Caldwell’s prose-poem sequence
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – SMOKING OPIUM IN MOSCOW: James Roderick Burns admires Roger Caldwell’s use of poetry to delineate and then demolish a number of illusions cherished by western culture
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, D A Prince, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – ALPHA: D A Prince follows Mike Di Placido’s poetic musings on not being unusually heroic
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, Chris Beckett, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – TO DARN, TO MEND, TO INTERWEAVE: Chris Beckett reviews a very personal collection by Jo Roach in which the past is intermingled with the present