Poetry review – DINING WITH THE DEAD: Melissa Todd admires Fiona Sinclair’s skill at re-presenting the everyday as something special
year 2023
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Poetry Review – MUSINGS: Charles Rammelkamp appreciates Tony Dawson’s mixing of wit and understanding of human nature
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Poetry review – A LAND BETWEEN BORDERS: Mat Riches explores the poetic territories mapped out in Mike Barlow’s latest collection
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THE PROCESS OF POETRY: Roger Caldwell browses an instructive selection of case studies in poetic composition compiled by Rosanna McGlone
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Poetry review – BIRDS KNIT MY RIBS TOGETHER : Giles Watson reviews Phil Barnett’s collection which records close personal encounters with the natural world
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Poetry review – EDGAR: Stephen Claughton considers Malcolm Carson’s extended exploration of a poetic persona
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Poetry review – DEAD LETTERS: Rosie Johnston admires a collection of elegant and generous poems by Carole Coates
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Scala!!! Review by Alan Price. Last night I attended a screening of the new documentary Scala!!! which tells the story of London’s Scala cinema from the 1960s to its closure in 1993. Its most fondly remembered home was in a seedy King’s Cross long before its eventual gentrification.
The Magic Realism of the Taviani Brothers. Review by Alan Price. With the films of the Taviani Brothers we have a pair of cinema magicians, great fabulists steeped in the art of literary storytelling, who directed engrossing tales of beauty and imagination.
By Alan Price • film, year 2023 • Tags: Alan Price, film