Paul McLoughlin admires Andrew Sant’s dexterous juggling with multiple concepts of gravity
year 2019
Rosie Johnston celebrates a beautifully crafted and accessible pamphlet by new poet Lizzi Hawkins
If you can get along to Bethnal Green in the next three weeks, I highly recommend a visit to this exhibition of photographs. They document a dramatic period in the history of the East London.
Emma Lee considers the implications of Jeremy Dixon’s poetic reports from behind the scenes of a well-known high street store
Maria C. McCarthy explores an engaging and evocative poem sequence by Jane Lovell
There is a natural symbiosis between the two artists in this exhibition. Both, although divided by centuries, seek to present the relationship between man and his place in the universe.
Merryn Williams reviews an anthology of poems about the NHS which express both gratitude and anxiety
One of the strengths of this piece of thoughtful social melodrama is that, by the end, any credibility stretched by the child-mob scenario is less important than the way we are moved to analyse our own response to one manifestation of historic institutionalised British child abuse.
Lucca, Italy, was the birthplace of Giacomo Puccini in 1858 in an apartment that is now a museum to the last and most famous of generations of Puccini maestros, restored to its Second Empire glory, down to a bed, surrounded by columns, that replicates the one in which Puccini was born.
Thomas Ovans picks his way through the varied themes in a debut collection by Pauline Sewards
The Museum Carlo Bilotti is located in the elegant edifice of the Orangery in the park of Villa Borghese. It is one of the many and interesting museums of the Municipality of Rome scattered around the capital, and is free of charge.
Stuart Henson enjoys becoming reacquainted with the poetry of Keith Howden
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 0 • Tags: books, poetry, Stuart Henson