Brian Docherty comments on political poems from pre-WW2 Japan by Kosuke Shirasu which have recently been republished in a bi-lingual edition by Jun Shirasu and Bruce Barnes
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Thomas Ovans investigates a Shoestring anthology edited by Merryn Williams which has received an unusual amount of attention for a poetry book.
Fiona Sinclair considers a heavyweight collection from Michael Rosen and decides that it does not pull any political punches.
Merryn Williams commends both the intention and the achievement of a poetry anthology in aid of refugee charities
Norbert Hirschhorn reflects on a poetry and prose memoir that gives an inside view of the National Health Service at a time when it may be about to change forever. Born in the NHS by Wendy French & Jane Kirwan The Hippocrates Press (London, 2013) ISBN 978-0-957-9572571-2-2 pp 240 £12
Thomas Ovans reviews 1948 by Andy Croft
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.’
Thomas Ovans uses the internet to solve mysteries round an air crash fifty years ago … and also uncovers some more recent concerns
400 Women: an exhibition by Tamsyn Challenger Curator: Gemma Rolls-Bentley
Rafael Campo and Zeina Hashem Beck are two very different poets and Norbert Hirschhorn enjoys their work in different ways
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, politics, year 2016 • Tags: books, Norbert Hirschhorn, poetry, politics