Poetry review – FAREWELL PERFORMANCE: Paul McDonald looks back with pleasure on the collected later poems of Vernon Scannell
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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, literature, poetry, year 2022 • Tags: authors, books, James McGonigal, literature, poetry • 0 Comments
HIDDEN SUN: James McGonigal explores James Fountain’s perceptive study of the poet Joseph Macleod
by Barbara Lewis • authors, history, performance, theatre, year 2022 • Tags: authors, Barbara Lewis, history, performance, theatre •
An Earl’s Court Miscellany. FinboroughFrontier online content. Review by Barbara Lewis. The ever-inventive Finborough Theatre has combined its return to real-life drama with an enlightened decision to carry on delivering original online work for free that surely can only enhance one of the strongest off-West End brands.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, literature, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, Kevin Saving, literature, poetry • 0 Comments
100 POETS. A LITTLE ANTHOLOGY: Kevin Saving considers the selections made and not made for a new anthology compiled by John Carey
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, literature, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, Edmund Prestwich, literature, poetry • 2 Comments
Poetry review – PURGATORIO: Edmund Prestwich looks at a new translation by DM Black
by Carla Scarano • art, authors, books, design, drawing, exhibitions, fashion, film, music, photography, year 2021 • Tags: art, authors, books, Carla Scarano, design, drawing, exhibitions, fashion, film, photography •
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, Victoria and Albert Museum. Review by Carla Scarano. .”..a marvellous but unsettling journey through the origin of Alice’s stories and their adaptations and reinventions in films, art, music, fashion, photography and design.”
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: authors, books, poetry, Roger Caldwell • 0 Comments
Poetry review – POEMS TO NIGHT: Roger Caldwell reviews a new translation by Will Stone of some of Rilke’s less well-know poems
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, poetry, year 2021 • Tags: Andrew Keanie, authors, books, poetry • 0 Comments
HOUSMAN’S NAME AND NATURE OF POETRY: Andrew Keanie considers Michael Cullup’s study of Housman’s Leslie Stephen Lecture.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, history, year 2021 • Tags: authors, books, Graham Buchan, history • 0 Comments
THE MIRROR & THE LIGHT. The final part of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy came out just before the pandemic: a year later Graham Buchan looks back on the whole sequence.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, drawing, literature, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, drawing, literature, Merryn Williams, poetry • 0 Comments
EURIPIDES: THE TROJAN WOMEN, A COMIC: Merryn Williams considers an unusual re-working of Euripides by Anne Carson & Rosanna Bruno
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, poetry, year 2021 • Tags: authors, books, Kevin Saving, poetry • 0 Comments
MONICA JONES, PHILIP LARKIN AND ME: Kevin Saving considers John Sutherland’s recent perspective on Philip Larkin’s love life
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, poetry reviews, year 2022 • Tags: authors, books, John Forth, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – IS THIS LIKE A POEM?: John Forth is reminded of Paul McLoughlin’s distinctive voice while reading this collection of posthumously published poems