Paul McLoughlin admires both the craft and the range of Alistair Elliot’s third collection from Shoestring Press
year 2018
Emma Lee is pleased by the musical elements in a new collection by Reuben Woolley
Stuart Henson considers the elegance of two pamphlets by Martyn Crucefix.
Lanie Robertson’s fine one-woman play on Peggy Guggenheim is a feast for intelligent audiences wanting to celebrate Guggenheim’s extraordinary life.
Stroll through the streets of Turin or look out from the city’s rattling trams and you’re confronted with wall after wall of windows framed by whatever architectural embellishments were fashionable at the time of construction, from the standard shutters of residential apartment blocks to ornate neo-classical gods and gargoyles on civic buildings.
Jeremy Wikeley is impressed by a competition-winning first collection from Sean Wai Keung
Wendy Klein commends Martin Malone’s new chapbook which revisits the first World War in the centenary year of its ending
The play’s full title is ‘East. Elegy for the East End and its energetic waste.’ It is a vulgar, visceral evocation of London’s East End working class, white culture. This is a wicked piece of theatre in all senses of that word.
Wendy French admires an anthology of work by deaf and disabled poets
Shanta Acharya takes an in-depth look at a new collection by R V Bailey
Peter Ualrig Kennedy is full of admiration for the spare elegance of Gordon Meade’s poetic discourse on being faced with cancer.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2018 1 • Tags: books, Peter Ualrig Kennedy, poetry