Paul McLoughlin reviews a collection set in the 1930s which recreates a lost age that was both golden and flawed.
Year 2013
Thomas Ovans glances back at the ITV series of Poirot adventures which recently came to an end
Thomas Ovans confronts some radical views expressed in radical verse in Steve Ely’s latest collection
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs considers a literary encounter that might have taken place in 1930s London
Leah Fritz warms to Norbert Hirschhorn’s fresh poetic treatment of Jewish traditional songs
Norbert Hirschhorn detects a Dali-esque streak in David Shook’s first collection
* This issue of London Grip New Poetry features poems by: *Rodney Wood *F.M.Brown *Rik Wilkinson *Sissy Buckles *Robert Etty *Antony Johae *Ruth Bidgood *Elizabeth Smither *Elizabeth Barrett *Sonam Chhoki *Deborah Tyler-Bennett *Shadwell Smith *Jonathan Taylor *Bruce Christianson *Robert Peake *Robert Nisbet *Pam Job
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs does his best to give an adequate appreciation of a dense, complex and rewarding collection.
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.
In her latest collection, Waiting for Bluebeard, Helen Ivory invites her readers into a world where fantasy can sometimes become disturbingly real.
* This issue of London Grip features new poems by: *Ian C Smith *Frank C Praeger *Phil Wood *Laurie Johnston *Martin Noutch *Thomas Ovans *Seth Crook *Judith Wolton *Wendy Klein *Peter Branson *Ann Vaughan-Williams *D M Aderibigbe *Emma Lee *Robert Nisbet *R D McManes *Jeff Bell *Paul Richards
* This issue of London Grip features new poems by: *Murray Bodo *Ian House *Louise Warren *David Cooke *Benjamin Smith *Kerrin P Sharpe *Stephen Claughton *Martyn Crucefix *Sue Rose *Carol DeVaughn *Stephen Oliver *Merryn Williams *Sarah Glaz *Brian Docherty * Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya *Graham Burchell *Nancy Mattson *John Snelling *Vaughan Rapatahana *Kate Foley *Martin Burke *Robert […]
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • new poetry, poetry, Year 2013