Poetry Review – Crawling Out and Falling Up: Fiona Sinclair waxes lyrical about the poetic gifts of Donall Dempsey
year 2019
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • poetry, technology, year 2019 • Tags: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry, technology • 0 Comments
When Pythagoras met Homer: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs recalls a time when being a mathematician was like being a poet.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: Alex Josephy, books, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – Morning Walk with Dead Possum, Breakfast and Parallel Universe: Alex Josephy admits that Beth Gordon’s poems makes demands on the reader but insists that they repay time and effort
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, Julie Hogg, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – Isabella: Julie Hogg admires Caroline Maldonado’s sensitive translations and re-telling of Isabella Morra’s story
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: Alwyn Marriage, books, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – Dad Remember You Are Dead: Alwyn Marriage reckons that Jacqueline Saphra’s new collection is a book to wake the reader up
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • poetry, year 2019 • Tags: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry • 1 Comment
* LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY – Winter 2019. This issue features: * Edmund Prestwich * Kate Noakes * Michael Crowley * Maggie Butt * Emma Lee *Tom Sommerville *Gordon Wood * Thomas Tyrrell *Anthony Dawson * Robert Nisbet * Wendy French *Stephen Claughton * Anne Ballard * Jan-An Saab * Sue Rose * Raymond Miller […]
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, John Forth, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – Blue Wallpaper: John Forth is impressed by the autobiographical element in Robert Hamberger’s new collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • art, literature, politics, society, year 2019 • Tags: art, literature, Michael Crowley, politics, society • 0 Comments
Social Solidarity and the Arts in Woke Times: Michael Crowley advocates against an ever-increasing subdivision of the arts into racial, age-related or gender groups for a similar audience
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • poetry, politics, theatre, year 2019 • Tags: David Mitchell, poetry, politics, theatre • 0 Comments
David Mitchell reviews A History of Water in the Middle East at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, photography, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, photography, poetry, Stephen Claughton • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – Exposure. Stephen Claughton reviews a collection by Derek Adams which sharply captures key moments in the life of photographer Lee Miller
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, Jefferson Holdridge, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – The Possibility of Innocence. Jefferson Holdridge takes a measured look at a collection of thoughtful poems by Nicholas Bielby
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, Maria C. McCarthy, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry Review: The Shape of a Tulip Bird. Maria C. McCarthy finds these poems of loss by Christopher Hopkins to be compelling yet almost unbearable