On Poetry
Stuart Henson decides that Jonathan Davidson’s “On Poetry” is a book for both writers and listeners. And academics might enjoy it too.
literature
Interesting? I’ll Say!
John Lucas reviews a genuinely interesting collection of essays by Jim Burns – and adds some equally interesting observations of his own
London Grip Poetry Review – Croft
Merryn Williams is doubly impressed – both by Andy Croft’s finely crafted poetry and by its subject, the unfairly neglected writer and activist, Randall Swingler
Robert Desnos: Surrealist, Lover, Resistant
Roger Caldwell considers an impressively substantial volume of poems by Robert Desnos with translations by Timothy Adès
“Gone With The Wind” Revisited
Many years after first reading the classic 1930s novel, Sarah Lawson decided to open the book again and write down her second impressions: Emma Lee considers that this re-appraisal was well worthwhile.
Perspectives on Poetry: Mahon, Stevenson & Stern
Perspectives on Poetry: John Lucas examines three recent studies exploring the craft and ideas of three eminent poets .
A Tribute to Anthony Burgess in his Centenary Year. Jane McChrystal.
Now best-known for writing the novel A Clockwork Orange, which Stanley Kubrick turned into the ultra-violent film of 1971, Anthony Burgess died on 22nd November 1993.
Larkinworld
Jeremy Wikeley gives his reactions to the exhibition Larkinworld which is currently at the Poetry Library, Southbank Centre
The Poetry of Anne Stevenson
Roger Caldwell reviews Ian Gordon‘s recent biography of the poet Anne Stevenson
The Hazards of Looking Back: re-reading E.F. Benson’s “Colin”, by Jane McChrystal.
I usually find middle-brow fiction quite consoling. So, I turned to my bookshelves in search of something not too literary in the hope of distraction from these troubled times. Colin, a supernatural tale, published in two parts by E.F. Benson in 1923, seemed to fit the bill.
Too Brave to Dream
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs dips into a collection of ‘lost’ ekphrastic poems by R S Thomas
London Grip Poetry Review – Neil Curry
Stuart Henson listens in to Neil Curry’s artful channeling of Virginia Woolf