. JON STALLWORTHY 1935-2014 It’s hard to sum up the achievement of Jon Stallworthy in a word or a phrase. He was a poet, biographer of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice, Professor of English Literature at Oxford, a translator of Russian poetry, an inspired editor and anthologist and an enabler of other writers. I am […]
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Thomas Ovans is very grateful to Paul McLoughlin and Shoestring Press for republishing some of the best work of the poet Brian Jones.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs takes in Deborah Tyler-Bennett’s poetic impressions of a residency at Keats House
Rosemary Friedman has been writing satisfying short stories for over fifty years. Sarah Lawson reviews a recent compilation and tries to work out how she does it.
Merryn Williams is pleased to get hold of the first – albeit brief – biography of the much admired Cornish poet Charles Causley.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs considers a literary encounter that might have taken place in 1930s London
Timothy Adès has produced new translations of Victor Hugo’s poems about being a grandfather. Merryn Williams finds that many of them have stood the test of time…
Another extract from Sarah Lawson’s soon-to-be-published volume The GWTW Fortnight: Essays on Gone with the Wind.
Sarah Lawson considers narrative structures in Margaret Mitchell’s epic novel
The Passion of Pierre Clémenti: European cinema’s christ-devil child. by Helen Donlon. “I hung out in St. Germain. Picking up cigarettes from the street. One day, a guy came up to me and said, ‘Come with me, we need you.’
Leah Fritz talks to Patricia Oxley about editing Acumen poetry magazine, running the Torbay festival and being awarded the MBE
In the weeks leading up to Easter, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reflects on the surprising longevity of Frank Morison’s 1930 book which examines events surrounding the first Good Friday.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, festivals, religion, year 2015