The ideal venue of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in via Francesco Crispi in Rome displays a vast range of pictures and sculptures from the Capitoline collections retracing the interpretation and development of the female form and her artistic personality from the end of the nineteenth century until today.
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Peter Ualrig Kennedy recommends an epic and heartbreaking poem, beautifully translated from the Dutch of Guus Luijters
Leah Fritz offers a very personal response to a final compilation of writings by Günter Grass
The mesmerising Casina delle Civette (House of the Owls) hosts an intriguing exhibition of masks by Nicola Toce inspired by the Carnival traditions of Basilicata, a region in Southern Italy.
David Cooke commends the ability of Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim both to reflect and to transcend his own circumstances
Kate Noakes relishes a short sequence by Maitreyabandhu which combines nature writing and memoir
Merryn Williams discovers that Anne Stewart’s poems about bereavement succeed on several levels
Jeremy Wikeley eventually comes to terms with the unconventional poetry of James Davies
Mat Riches assesses the success of Greg Gilbert’s attempts to make poetry out of his experience of serious illness
Emma Lee picks her way through a narrative sequence by Math Jones about untangling life’s complexities
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 0 • Tags: books, Emma Lee, poetry