Poetry Review – The Anatomical Venus. Pat Edwards responds to Helen Ivory’s new collection which confronts historical abuses of women
year 2019
#WeAreArrested
Venue: Arcola Theatre, London
Dates of run: Until Dec 7
Co-production with Royal Shakespeare Company
Poetry Review – Aunts Come Armed with Welsh Cakes. Kate Noakes rather enjoys the contents – as well as the intriguing title – of Thirza Clout’s pamphlet collection
Poetry Review – Sightings. Mat Riches finds that Rose Cook has compressed a lot of looking at the world into one pamphlet
A Pink Chair, Tadeusz Kantor, The Wooster Group. Review by Julia Pascal.
Emma Storr is drawn into Gareth Writer-Davies’s poetic reflections on mortality
Carla Scarano considers a dystopia convincingly described in a prose-poem sequence by Carole Coates
Rigoletto,
Composer: Verdi
Producer: Welsh National Opera
The revolutionary attitude that Mary Quant’s iconic outfits convey strikes the viewer at the V&A retrospective exhibition. She is considered one of the most influential fashion designer of the 1960s.
Thomas Ovans is moved by Steve Rudd’s very personal poems about the NHS
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is drawn into a mysterious world conjured up by Michael Loveday’s enigmatic prose pieces
Poetry Review – Safety Behaviour. Maxine Linnell enjoys following Emma Jeremy’s poetic imagination
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 0 • Tags: books, Maxine Linnell, poetry