The exhibition Drawing the Line features David Harker’s drawings & paintings, with accompanying poems by Tamar Yoseloff
year 2015
John Forth finds that humour is one of the keys to the success of Alberto Torrealba’s tale of a poetic duel (translated by Timothy Adès)
Thomas Ovans identifies with many of the distinctively-voiced observations and reminiscences in John Forth’s substantial collection.
Emma Lee is touched by unanswered questions raised in Jane Routh’s chapbook sequence about the ill-fated Franklin expedition
D A Prince analyses the component parts of a complex collection by Robert Peake
* This issue of London Grip New Poetry features poems by: . *Stephen Bone *Anthony Costello *Edward Mycue *Ben Banyard *Derek Adams *Danielle Hope *Imogen Forster *Pam Job *Ajise Vincent *Peter Phillips *James W Wood *Antony Johae *Norbert Hirschhorn *Genevieve Scanlan *Tanya Nightingale *Kat Soini *Katherine Venn *Jan Hutchison *Peter Branson *Teoti Jardine *Ian C Smith […]
Wendy Klein finds that the poetic colours in Myra Schneider’s new collection have been skilfully mixed from choice ingredients
Sarah Lawson reviews a debut novel by Shanta Acharya which deals engagingly and touchingly with a young woman’s hopes and disappointments in India during the 1960s.
An exhibition of the extraordinary output of France’s Henri Cartier-Bresson, hailed as the founder of photojournalism and “the eye of the century”. That is true in the fullest sense of the words, given his exceptional ability to see the telling detail, or, in his own words, to seize the fact related to “the deep reality”.
Paul McLoughlin finds an appropriately lyrical way to show his appreciation of a new collection by Richard Kell
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs finds Joël Dicker’s weighty novel to be a good solid, holiday read .
John Forth looks at poems written by Tamar Yoseloff to accompany an exhibition of David Harker’s images and finds they are sometimes more assertive than the understated artwork, but are also very much at one with it.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • art, books, drawing, poetry reviews, year 2015