Poetry review – SMOKING OPIUM IN MOSCOW: James Roderick Burns admires Roger Caldwell’s use of poetry to delineate and then demolish a number of illusions cherished by western culture
year 2021
In a time of bitter, divisive politics, the positive, as well as the negative aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic is that it is truly global: people everywhere feel the same fear, sorrow and frustration at the same time.
Every Christmas, London’s Old Vic delivers a production of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. This year is no exception – except that it comes to us via Zoom.
Poetry review – ALICE AND THE NORTH : Maggie Butt finds vibrant honesty in Anne Caldwell’s prose-poem sequence
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 0 • Tags: books, Maggie Butt, poetry