Carla Scarano D’Antonio reviews Michael Bartholomew-Biggs’s poetic sketch of a family history which is based as much on imagination as on evidence.
year 2017
Chris Beckett welcomes the arrival of a new collection from Julia Bird
Carla Scarano D’Antonio considers Jean Harrison’s reflective poetic reminiscences about her life and work in Ghana
James Roderick Burns has no doubts about the importance of Mayakovsky’s epic poem about Lenin in a new Smokestack edition by Rosy Carrick
Merryn Williams is doubly impressed – both by Andy Croft’s finely crafted poetry and by its subject, the unfairly neglected writer and activist, Randall Swingler
This is a brave production by Hannah Chissick as Brecht’s epic drama is meant for the large scale and, squeezing such a huge concept in to the Southwark Playhouse, takes guts.
Peter Ualrig Kennedy travels the world in the company of Margaret Eddershaw’s recent collection
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, travel, year 2017 1 • Tags: books, Peter Ualrig Kennedy, poetry, travel