JOHN LUCAS ONLINE: London Grip draws attention to a small cache of rather precious material … which has proved to be even more important than we first realised
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Poetry review – FIFTY POEMS: Ian Pople considers some new translations by Geoffrey Lehmann of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry
Poetry review – THE INTERPRETATION OF OWLS: John Forth enjoys an immersion in a substantial and very well curated selection from John Greening’s work
A reviewer reviewed: Paul McDonald browses a selection of essays by D J Taylor compiled under the title CRITIC AT LARGE
THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN – Under Milk Wood seventy years on: an appreciation by Kevin Saving
THEIR SMILE AND THEIR TEARS: Alan Price considers two recent compilations of poetry by Giovanni Pascoli
Poetry review – METAMORPHOSES: Charles Rammelkamp considers the many influences present in Evan Kennedy’s poetry
THE TREASURIES, POETRY ANTHOLOGIES AND THE MAKING OF BRITISH CULTURE: Kevin Saving considers Clare Bucknell’s study of the history of the British poetry anthology
THE WIFE OF WILLESDEN: Charles Rammelkamp takes a transatlantic look at Zadie Smith’s updating of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath
Poetry review – THE TESSERAE: John Forth weighs the merits of Oliver Tearle’s game-playing with “The Waste Land” and reckons up the final score
Poetry review – THE HOPEFUL HAT: Stuart Henson reviews Carole Satyamurti’s final collection and finds it both poignant and upbeat
REMEMBERING DONALD ATKINSON: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reflects on the relatively short career of a very original poet and adds some personal memories.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, authors, poetry, year 2025