In her new collection of stories, Deborah Tyler-Bennett gives a lively evocation of 1940s Music Hall, both on and off the stage
Year 2013
In 1931, in Alabama, a terrible miscarriage of justice took place. Nine young African-Americans were arrested on a trumped up charge for rape on two young white women. All nine were sentenced to death.
Rosemary Friedman has been writing satisfying short stories for over fifty years. Sarah Lawson reviews a recent compilation and tries to work out how she does it.
Angela Kirby’s latest collection artfully encompasses both broad humour and tightly controlled grief
D A Prince finds good things in Caroline Squire’s prize-winning pamphlet collection.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs welcomes the reappearance of some half-hidden R.S. Thomas poems
Thomas Ovans confronts some radical views expressed in radical verse in Steve Ely’s latest collection
Merryn Williams is pleased to get hold of the first – albeit brief – biography of the much admired Cornish poet Charles Causley.
Sarah Lawson has set her enjoyably teasing narrative ‘somewhere in a crease between the pages of the London A-Z’
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs considers a literary encounter that might have taken place in 1930s London
Merryn Williams is reminded of some traditional poetic virtues when reading the latest book by Simon Curtis.
It is always interesting to pinpoint the moment when one becomes conscious of a change of mood or orientation in contemporary artistic practices. Something has emerged that offers quite a different tonic. This ‘something’ might be termed ‘mindful matter’: it is materialism with a twist, or with a new twist.
By Ruth Rosengarten • art, exhibitions, installations, sculpture, Year 2013 • Tags: Daniel Silver, London, matter, new materialism, Ruth Rosengarten, sculpture, tactile, visual