REMEMBERING DONALD ATKINSON: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reflects on the relatively short career of a very original poet and adds some personal memories.
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THE MOON LOOKS ON THEM ALL: Angela Topping browses a collection of essays by John Lucas on the subject of friends and friendship
Write like a man. Review by Julia Pascal. Ronnie A. Grinberg’s detailed analysis of mid-twentieth century America’s masculine Jewish literary elites is a careful examination of the major personalities.
TRUTH OR FICTION?: Andrew Keanie discusses Doreen Maitre’s view that a work of fiction can expound philosophical ideas just as effectively as an academic text
Poetry review – LEAVING THE HILLS: Stuart Henson reviews Tony Curtis’s latest collection and reflects on many years of thoughtful, well-observed poetry
The Complete Haiku of Basho. Review by Alan Price. Basho was the great poet “of lonesomeness as well as the desire to be alone. The dynamic interiority out of which many of these poems emerged has much to say to us.
Poetry review – THE ASKING: Alwyn Marriage reflects on this generous selection from Jane Hirshfield’s work
Poetry review – CHOSEN POEMS: D A Prince welcomes this careful selection of Ruth Bidgood’s poems compiled by Merryn Williams
HARDY WOMEN: MOTHER, SISTERS, WIVES, MUSES: Kevin Saving reviews Paula Byrne’s extensive examination of significant women in Thomas Hardy’s life
Poetry review – COLLECTED POEMS: Edmund Prestwich is grateful for this full and eminently readable record of Fleur Adcock’s poetic creativity
SHAKESPEARE IN AN AGE OF ANXIETY: John Lucas admires Neville Grant’s new study of Shakespeare’s plays prior to 1603 – and is already impatient for a sequel
Poetry review – MORGENSTERN’S MAGIC: Rosie Johnston examines the poems of Christian Morgenstern in a new translation by Timothy Adès
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