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.
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by Barbara Lewis • music, opera, theatre, year 2017 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, music, opera, theatre •
Tchaikovsky said his aim in creating an opera from Pushkin’s supremely Russian yet universal drama of ill-fated love was to relay “ordinary, simple human feelings” as opposed to lavishly theatrical action.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • poetry, year 2017 • Tags: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry • 3 Comments
* This issue of London Grip features new poems by: *Bethany W Pope *Maggie Butt *Ruth Bidgood *Helen Kay *Keith Nunes *Robert Ford *Deborah Tyler-Bennett *Stuart Pickford *Sue Burge *Kerrin P Sharpe *Pam Thompson *Jean Atkin *Bruce Christianson *Jan Hutchison *Phil Kirby *Stuart Henson *Ben Banyard *Gareth Culshaw *Barry Smith *Mary Franklin *Laura McKee *Carla […]
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry • 1 Comment
Motherhood is one of the themes in Clare Pollard’s new collection; but the book also broadens out into forceful and compassionate poems about the sorrows of the world into which our children are born.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, Chris Beckett, poetry • 1 Comment
Chris Beckett welcomes the arrival of a new collection from Julia Bird
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, Carla Scarano D’Antonio, poetry • 0 Comments
Carla Scarano D’Antonio considers Jean Harrison’s reflective poetic reminiscences about her life and work in Ghana
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • food, history, society, year 2017 • Tags: food, history, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, society • 0 Comments
London Grip readers may remember Bernard Green’s previous reminiscences about his early life on the Surrey-Hampshire border. Here he returns with a new recollection – this time couched in verse…
by Barbara Lewis • comedy, performance, theatre, year 2017 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, comedy, performance, theatre •
Low-tech, unforced and innocent, the Chipping Norton panto lives up to the programme note’s promise to provide “an escape from the disposable pop culture that surrounds our children”.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, politics, year 2017 • Tags: books, history, James Roderick Burns, poetry, politics • 0 Comments
James Roderick Burns has no doubts about the importance of Mayakovsky’s epic poem about Lenin in a new Smokestack edition by Rosy Carrick
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, poetry reviews, politics, year 2017 • Tags: authors, books, Merryn Williams, poetry, politics • 0 Comments
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
by Julia Pascal • plays, theatre, year 2017 • Tags: Julia Pascal, plays, theatre •
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.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, travel, year 2017 • Tags: books, Peter Ualrig Kennedy, poetry, travel • 1 Comment
Peter Ualrig Kennedy travels the world in the company of Margaret Eddershaw’s recent collection