* The Winter 2020 issue of LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY features: * Kathryn de Leon * Steve Black * Chris Hardy * Stuart Handysides * Briege Duffaud * Frederick Pollack * Ian Heffernan * Brian Docherty * R G Jodah * Maggie Freeman * Elizabeth Smither * Jan-An Saab * Julia Duke * Jeni Curtis […]
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If you can embrace it, lockdown’s shift from the real to the virtual is a liberation that makes anything possible.
THE FIRE OF JOY: Edmund Prestwich looks at a very personal poetry compilation by Clive James
* The Autumn 2020 issue of London Grip New Poetry features: *Zoe Brooks *Colin Pink *Tony Beyer *Leona Gom *Daniel Bennett *James Roderick Burns *Jack Houston *Tom Phillips *Moya Pacey *Mary Franklin *Curtis Brown *Peter Kenny *Angela Kirby *Kathleen McPhilemy *Ruth Valentine *Marie Dullaghan *Molly Burnell *Tanner *Jane McLaughlin *Jennifer Johnson *Mary Robinson *Marion McCready […]
* The Summer 2020 issue of London Grip New Poetry features: * Margaret Hollingsworth * William Bedford * Carl Griffin * Tim Youngs * Belinda Rimmer * Raymond Miller * Richie McCaffery * Hannah Hodgson * Bruce Christianson * James Fountain * Stuart Handysides * Stuart Pickford * Barry Smith * Jane Simpson * Tim […]
* The Spring 2020 issue of London Grip New Poetry features: * Tanner * Glenn Hubbard * Jock Stein * Tim Cunningham * Joe Balaz * Ben Banyard * Teoti Jardine * Brian Docherty * Frederick Pollack * Jack Collard * Chris Johnson * Phil Connolly * Jim C Wilson * Carla Scarano * Andrew […]
The Life and Times of Fishgate Billyboy: Richie McCaffery welcomes this pseudonymous fictionalised autobiography with its poetic interjections
A tribute to Leah Fritz (1931-2020) whose recent death was a sad loss to the London literary scene
Stage Invasion: Angela Topping takes a close look at Pete Bearder’s guide to spoken word poetry and its differences from poetry for the page
In Translation: an exhibition of poetry by Katherine Venn at the Westbourne Grove Church ArtSpace
When Pythagoras met Homer: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs recalls a time when being a mathematician was like being a poet.
VAPOUR TRAILS: Roger Caldwell “reviews the reviewer” and discusses a collection of John Greening‘s writings on poets and poetry
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry, year 2021 • Tags: books, poetry, Roger Caldwell