* The Spring 2023 issue of London Grip New Poetry features: *Jane Frank *Julia Duke *Luigi Coppola *Lara Frankena *Wendy Klein *Sarah James *Caleb Murdock *Tony Dawson *John Harvey *Peter Devonald *Myra Schneider *Kelly Davis *Edmund Prestwich *Kevin McManus *Oliver Dixon *Annabelle Markwick-Staff *Barry Smith *Tom Phillips *Kurt Luchs *David S Lorello *Fred Johnston *Donald […]
year 2023
Carrie by William Wyler. Review by Alan Price. Carrie, William Wyler’s 1950 adaptation of Theodore Dreiser’s 1900 novel Sister Carrie, has been out of full circulation for some years now: hard to see on TV and only available as a cut DVD until Imprint’s restored Blu-Ray release.
Poetry review – THE THOUGHTS: Wendy Kyle reviews Sarah Barnsley’s very personal debut collection
Poetry review – SMALL ODYSSEYS: Carla Scarano is drawn in by Maria Jastrzebska’s wide-ranging and boundary-breaking poetry
Poetry review – THE GUEST ROOM: James Roderick Burns finds Diana Hendry’s collection to be even more than the sum of its excellent parts
Poetry review – THE HOPEFUL HAT: Stuart Henson reviews Carole Satyamurti’s final collection and finds it both poignant and upbeat
The Cassandra Cat. Review by Alan Price. There have been many quirky films about cats but I can’t recall a film quite like The Cassandra Cat. The Cassandra Cat is a very different film to Vojtech Jasny’s later masterpiece All My Good Countrymen (1969) but nonetheless an endearing gem.
Why We Sing, by Julia Hollander. Review by Barbara Lewis. Sometimes we sing because we are happy. More importantly, we sing to make ourselves happy – and not just in a good mood, but healthier, saner and part of a more cohesive community.
Bright and Deadly Things. Review by Barbara Lewis. Lexie Elliott is far from the first to make the point that conventional logic has its limitations. But she stands apart from all the literature majors that have defended their visceral thinking in that she earned authority as an Oxford theoretical physicist and then a City banker before reinventing herself as a best-selling writer.
Poetry review – COLLECTED POEMS: Emma Lee surveys Anne Stevenson‘s illustrious career as summed up in a new compilation of her work
Poetry review – WHEN ILIUM BURNS: Charles Rammelkamp enjoys unravelling a perplexing narrative sequence by Tiffany Troy
Poetry review – AN ANXIOUS SPRING: Merryn Williams enjoys and admires John Levett’s well-crafted poetry
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2023 • Tags: books, Merryn Williams, poetry