Post-Virus Venice: More than looks. Venice is, to a majority of us, one of humanity’s most seductive achievements.
year 2020
Poetry review – THE ESTATE AGENT’S DAUGHTER: Mat Riches welcomes a well-presented and characterful new collection from Rhian Edwards
Farleys House and Gallery, Home of the Surrealists, Muddles Green. Review by Barbara Lewis. In pandemic times Farleys House visits have slowed to a trickle, throwing the economics into jeopardy.
Book review – FAMILIES AND OTHER NATURAL DISASTERS: Charles Rammelkamp considers a short story collection by Anita Goveas
Book review – THE PRISONER’S WIFE: this remarkable novel by Maggie Brookes is based on a true story and tells of an almost incredible deception successfully carried out during World War Two
Poetry review – A SENSE OF TIPTOE: A vivid and vigorous collection by Karen Hayes tackles some down to earth issues relating to faith
Fetishism Psychoanalysis Anthropology & Crazy Love. Review by Barbara Lewis. Psychotherapist Patricia Morris undertakes a brave, elegantly-argued and learned analysis, enriched by her years of professional experience, to pin down the meaning of one very particular word – fetishism – and explore its distortion by anthropologists.
Poetry review – NEGOTIATING CAPONATA – Rennie Halstead looks at poems by Carla Scarano D’Antonio which reflect the intensity of family relationships across generations
Poetry review – KATABASIS: Emma Lee assesses a complex myth-poem sequence by Jay G Ying
Poetry review – BREAD WITHOUT BUTTER: Louise Warren absorbs the atmosphere of Wendy French’s memoir of life in rural Wales
Hastings Contemporary. Quentin Blake: We Live in Worrying Times. Victor Pasmore: Line and Space. Review by Barbara Lewis. The short history of Hastings Contemporary art gallery has so far been troubled. Before it was built, it divided opinion.
Poetry review – THE SHAKING CITY: Sue Wallace-Shaddad enjoys the interweaving of moods and ideas in Cath Drake’s new collection
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, poetry, Sue Wallace-Shaddad