Poetry review – WE COULD BE ANYWHERE BY NOW: Julie Hogg observes that Katherine Stansfield’s enjoyment of language doesn’t prevent her tackling darker subjects
year 2020
Poetry review – THE CELESTIAL SPHERES: Peter Ualrig Kennedy has had a great time reading David Canning’s strong and vivid poems.
Poetry review – LOST CITY: Charlie Hill finds there are consolations among the bleak settings for Roz Goddard’s poems
* The Winter 2020 issue of LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY features: * Kathryn de Leon * Steve Black * Chris Hardy * Stuart Handysides * Briege Duffaud * Frederick Pollack * Ian Heffernan * Brian Docherty * R G Jodah * Maggie Freeman * Elizabeth Smither * Jan-An Saab * Julia Duke * Jeni Curtis […]
Poetry review: Louise Warren reviews two new Indigo Dreams collections by Isabelle Kenyon and Claire Booker
Poetry review: Merryn Williams looks at two new Shoestring collections from Clare Brant & Alexis Lykiard
Poetry Review – THE EMMA PRESS ANTHOLOGY OF ILLNESS: Angela Topping gives a sense of the variety in this collection of poems dealing frankly with the experience of being sick or injured.
If you can embrace it, lockdown’s shift from the real to the virtual is a liberation that makes anything possible.
Poetry review – COOKING WITH MARILYN: Emma Lee enjoys Angela Readman’s poetic portrait of a film star
Poetry review – A CITY WAKING UP: Brian Docherty detects the voice of a woke woman in Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s new collection
Grange Park Opera Interim Season. Simon Keenlyside: An Autumn Walk in Wales (available online). Review by Barbara Lewis: Context is all, says Simon Keenlyside, as for the second time this year he delivers a musical tour of his own personal context – the woods around his Welsh home.
Poetry review – IN THE LATENESS OF THE WORLD: Carolyn Forché’s dense and imaginative poems prompt Michael Bartholomew-Biggs to a spot of introspection
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