THE TRANSLATIONS OF SEAMUS HEANEY: Alan Price considers a compilation of Seamus Heaney’s remarkable and extensive work as a translator
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Poetry review – A SLIPPERY SLOPE: Colin Pink admires translations of Toon Tellegen’s two most recent collections.
Poetry review – CLIMBING A BURNING ROPE: Charles Rammelkamp admires how John Paul Davis manages the trick of combining bleakness and hope
Poetry review – FALLING AND FLYING: Pat Edwards finds a new collection by Jeff Phelps to be a rewarding read
Poetry review – BOOK OF CROW : Emma Lee reviews Anna Barker’s collection of narrative poems about a journey through grief which is shared with an unlikely travelling companion
QUICK ADJUSTMENTS: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a new collection of micro-fictions by Robert Scotellaro
MUSIC AND POLITICS: John Lucas reviews Gail Holst-Warhaft’s invaluable study of the life of Mikis Theodorakis
Poetry review – YOU’LL NEVER BE ANYONE ELSE: Emma Lee reflects on Rachael Clyne’s poems about finding and maintaining an authentic identity
St John’s Hospital in Bruges, dating from the 12th-century, has a history of healing focused on the soul rather than the body. By the time Hans Memling arrived in Bruges in the second half of the 15th-century, that meant the hospital had a clear role for the man who was described at the time of his death in 1494 as “the most accomplished and excellent painter of the whole Christian world”.
A TERRAIN OF THEIR OWN: Matthew M C Smith revisits Helen Mort’s 2016 collection No Map Could Show Them and reflects on its exposure of gender stereotyping in mountain literature
Poetry review – DINING WITH THE DEAD: Melissa Todd admires Fiona Sinclair’s skill at re-presenting the everyday as something special
Poetry review – CROMWELL’S HEAD: David Rudd-Mitchell reviews Jim Greenhalf’s poetic reflections on British history and its lessons for the present
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