Poetry review – THE LAST DINOSAUR IN DONCASTER: James Roderick Burns finds gritty lyricism in a promising first collection by Sarah Wimbush
year 2021
by Carla Scarano • art, drawing, exhibitions, painting, year 2021 • Tags: art, Carla Scarano, drawing, exhibitions, painting •
Paula Rego, Tate Britain. Review by Carla Scarano. The retrospective comprehensive exhibition of Paula Rego’s work spans sixty years of her career and shows her multimedia approach as well as her multi-faceted view and political commitment.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, Kate Ashton, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – AUSCULTATION : Kate Ashton is moved by the honest emotions revealed in Ilse Pedler’s poetry
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: Alwyn Marriage, books, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – BROOKSONG & SHADOWS: Alwyn Marriage enjoys the richness of language in Lynne Wycherley’s latest collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, Kate Ashton, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – KARAOKE KING: Kate Ashton admires the range and complexity of Dai George’s new collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, religion, year 2021 • Tags: books, Emma Storr, history, poetry, religion • 0 Comments
Poetry review – THE GIDDINGS: Emma Storr reflects on a compact but dense historical sequence by John Greening
by Barbara Lewis • plays, theatre, year 2021 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, plays, theatre •
Mustard is the only English thing in the rural Irish home of the young protagonist, named as E, of writer-performer Eva O’Connor’s one-woman show. Review by Barbara Lewis.
by Carla Scarano • art, authors, books, design, drawing, exhibitions, fashion, film, music, photography, year 2021 • Tags: art, authors, books, Carla Scarano, design, drawing, exhibitions, fashion, film, photography •
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, Victoria and Albert Museum. Review by Carla Scarano. .”..a marvellous but unsettling journey through the origin of Alice’s stories and their adaptations and reinventions in films, art, music, fashion, photography and design.”
by Barbara Lewis • plays, theatre, year 2021 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, plays, theatre •
The Reichstag is Burning …matches songs, ranging from the 1920s to the near contemporary, with the crucial stages of Hitler’s ascent to dictatorial power, not least the burning of the Reichstag. Black Box Live at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by Hartstone-Kitney Productions.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, psychiatry, psychotherapy, year 2021 • Tags: books, psychiatry, psychotherapy, Rachael Smart • 0 Comments
Rachael Smart reviews a collection of essays gathered around the subject of trauma
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, travel, year 2021 • Tags: books, Charles Rammelkamp, poetry, travel • 0 Comments
Poetry review – TRAVEL BY HAIKU: Charles Rammelkamp commends Marshall Deerfield’s efforts to compress a travelogue into a haiku sequence
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, Emma Storr, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – THE SYMMETRY OF FOLKLORE: Emma Storr welcomes a debut collection by Donna Irving