Poetry review – HIDING TO NOTHING: Emma Lee admires the boldness and sensitivity with which Anita Pati deals with difficult issues
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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, politics, society, year 2022 • Tags: books, history, Merryn Williams, poetry, politics, society • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – SMOKESTACK LIGHTNING: Merryn Williams greets an important anthology which celebrates the 200th publication from Smokestack Books
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, society, year 2022 • Tags: books, Carla Scarano, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – THE KIDS: Carla Scarano is moved by Hannah Lowe’s poems about teaching young people
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, politics, society, year 2022 • Tags: books, poetry, politics, Rennie Halstead, society • 0 Comments
Poetry review – IMPORTENTS: Rennie Halstead feels the force of Naomi Foyle’s response to the ills of contemporary society
by Barbara Lewis • books, ecology, society, year 2021 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, ecology, society •
The Great Melt By Alister Doyle Published by Flint Books My only churlish quibble with Alister Doyle’s highly readable distillation of years of meticulous research into climate change and sea level rise is that it might make the reader desperate for the kind of far-flung adventures we can no longer undertake lightly.
by Barbara Lewis • books, ecology, film, politics, society • Tags: Barbara Lewis, books, ecology, film, politics, society •
Hot Air: The Inside Story of the Battle Against Climate Change Denial. By Peter Stott. Review by Barbara Lewis.
A year before the Kyoto Protocol committed the developed world to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions, Britain’s Education Act of 1996 incorporated the Thatcher government’s 1986 Education Act that was designed to deal with a perceived issue of left-wing teachers indoctrinating school pupils. Two decades on, mathematician Peter Stott found himself defending climate science against its deniers, who used Thatcher’s legal legacy to take to the High Court their objections to Al Gore’s climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth being streamed in schools.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, society, year 2021 • Tags: books, fiction, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, society • 0 Comments
P – Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews a classic dystopia by D Rudd-Mitchell in which the individual is faced with a seemingly all-powerful Party
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, medicine, poetry reviews, society, year 2021 • Tags: books, Carole Bromley, medicine, poetry, society • 0 Comments
Poetry review – BY DEGREES: Carole Bromley is confident that David Tait’s pandemic poems will stand the test of time
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, society, year 2021 • Tags: books, history, poetry, Rennie Halstead, society • 0 Comments
Poetry review – WHATSNAME STREET: Rennie Halstead explores last-century Lambeth as portrayed in Anna Robinson’s authentic and entertaining collection
by Carla Scarano • history, society, year 2021 • Tags: Carla Scarano, history, society •
In their humble domestic lives, my grandmothers were not romantic and did not fight for civil or women’s rights. They did not personify any ideal of femininity or heroic endeavour. They simply carried on with their ordinary lives caring for their families and working hard.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, society, year 2021 • Tags: books, Pat Edwards, poetry, society • 1 Comment
Poetry review – RENTED: Pat Edwards engages with a challenging collection by Sue Johns
by Carla Scarano • added recently on London Grip, art, drawing, exhibitions, history, installations, painting, religion, sculpture, society, tapestry, textiles • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, design, drawing, exhibitions, history, religion, sculpture, society •
Feminine Power: the divine and the demonic. Review by Carla Scarano. The Citi exhibition at the British Museum is a thought-provoking and diverse display of more than 80 artefacts and contemporary artworks that draw from the museum’s collections, loans and new commissions. They reveal the complexity of the representation of more than 5,000 years of femininity in cultures and religions around the world.