Paul McLoughlin reviews a collection set in the 1930s which recreates a lost age that was both golden and flawed.
Year 2013
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Thomas Ovans confronts some radical views expressed in radical verse in Steve Ely’s latest collection
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Michael Bartholomew-Biggs considers a literary encounter that might have taken place in 1930s London
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* 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
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Michael Bartholomew-Biggs does his best to give an adequate appreciation of a dense, complex and rewarding collection.
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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.
* 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