Emma Lee savours new poetry from Matthew Stewart.
year 2017
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • art, exhibitions, year 2017 • Tags: art, exhibitions, Jenny Vuglar • 0 Comments
Jenny Vuglar visits the strange worlds created by Paula Rego currently on show at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings
by Barbara Lewis • exhibitions, photography, year 2017 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, exhibitions, photography •
These dark winter months, when accounts of inappropriate advances are rocking Westminster and Hollywood, are the perfect time for seeking light and sanity in the clean-cut, calm glamour of fashion photographer Louise Dahl-Wolfe.
by Jane McChrystal • art, drawing, exhibitions, sculpture, year 2017 • Tags: art, drawing, exhibitions, Jane McChrystal, sculpture •
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was the consummate commercial artist. He devised a formula for making lots of money out of his work long before Andy Warhol proclaimed “Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art”.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: Alex Josephy, books, poetry • 1 Comment
Alex Josephy finds Maria McCarthy’s poetic description of the vanishing Kent orchards to be more hopeful than might be imagined
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, science, year 2017 • Tags: books, Peter Daniels, poetry, science • 0 Comments
Peter Daniels finds that Philip Fried’s new collection displays wit, inventiveness and erudition to a degree that becomes almost daunting.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, D A Prince, poetry • 0 Comments
Kathryn Daszkiewicz’s new collection has a carefully worked structure and D A Prince enjoys spending time in the company of its closely-linked poems
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, Paul McLoughlin, poetry • 0 Comments
Transforming Things Into Other Things: Paul McLoughlin examines closely what Matthew Francis has done with a Mediaeval Welsh epic
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • installations, poetry, politics, year 2017 • Tags: installations, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry, politics • 0 Comments
A temporary installation in Bloomsbury Square is a powerful reminder of the work of exiled Russian poets in the last century
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, poetry, Wendy Klein • 0 Comments
Wendy Klein admires the craft with which John Mole makes poetry out of the deepest of feelings.
by Jane McChrystal • film, history, year 2017 • Tags: film, history, Jane McChrystal •
Sands Film Club recently screened Alessandro Blasetti’s 1860 as part of its 1934 cinema season. Blasetti’s pioneering film has been credited with introducing a number of cinematic techniques which would become calling cards of Italy’s Neo-Realist directors, such as De Sica, Visconti and Rossellini, during the 1940’s and 1950’s.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, poetry, Richie McCaffery • 0 Comments
Richie McCaffery enjoys a poetry festschrift put together for the 80th birthday of poet, critic and publisher John Lucas