Trouble in Tahiti. Review by Barbara Lewis. Opera typically is the medium for extraordinary emotion on a grand scale. The great straddler of genres Bernstein makes it the vehicle to explore the depressing ordinariness of the countless millions who can’t find their way back to the extraordinary emotion they once felt.
year 2023
Poetry review – LETTER TO ’OUMUAMUA: James Roderick Burns recommends James Norcliffe’s new collection as a stimulating and constructive vade mecum for our times
Poetry review – SAY IT WITH ME: Pat Edwards finds freshness in Vanessa Lampert’s treatment of life’s ups and downs
Poetry review – AFTER HASTINGS: Thomas Ovans reviews Merryn Wiliams‘ poetic impressions of the Covid years
HOLDING A POSE: John Lucas comments on an intriguing essay by Anthony Rudolf on the role of the artist’s model
Pension Europa. Review by Barbara Lewis. Austrian-Italian director Martin Gruber and his aktionstheater ensemble have for decades helped audiences to explore what it is to be a human wrestling with the anxieties of the day.
Poetry review – LOVE AND STONES: Emma Lee looks at the life-lessons behind Josephine Corcoran’s poems about family memories
Poetry review – THE ATTENDING: Charles Rammelkamp finds Matthew Mumber’s poems about his experience as a physician amount almost to a guide to wise living
Poetry review – CALLIGRAPHIES: Norbert Hirschhorn is full of admiration for Marilyn Hacker’s new collection
Poetry review – HOUSE WORK: Pat Edwards finds honesty and directness in Khadija Rouf’s poems
Poetry review – LOCAL INTEREST: Pamela Johnson examines a collection in which Emily Hasler immerses herself and the reader in a landscape and its history
Poetry review – GRACE NOTES: Nancy Charley‘s new collection is wide-ranging and sometimes surprising but is built round a strong central theme
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • art, books, poetry reviews, religion, travel, year 2023 • Tags: art, books, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry, religion, travel