Poetry review – IMPERFECT BEGINNINGS: Anne Ryland is touched by the powerful and painful poetry in this collection by Viv Fogel
year 2023
The Driver’s Seat. Review by Alan Price. On its release in 1974 “The Driver’s Seat” did badly commercially and critically. Today it will probably fascinate, engage, repel, disturb, disarm and draw you into its own world.
Poetry review – FIVE FIFTY-FIVE: Edmund Prestwich finds many reasons to admire Maura Dooley’s collection
Poetry review – AFTERTHOUGHTS: Charles Rammelkamp finds wit and wordplay in Tony Dawson’s poetry
Poetry review – KEEPING IN STEP: Rennie Halstead explores the many themes and moods in John Mole’s latest collection
Poetry review – AGAIN BEHOLD THE STARS: Emma Storr admires a prize-winning historical sequence by Alex Josephy
Poetry review – THE INTERPRETATION OF OWLS: John Forth enjoys an immersion in a substantial and very well curated selection from John Greening’s work
Poetry review – ANAHO: Daniel Barbiero reviews a new collection of poems of place composed by Stephanie Sears
Poetry review – HAIL SISTERS OF THE REVOLUTION: Kelly Davis admires Caroline Gilfillan’s tribute to a 1970s band of freedom fighters
Poetry review – PERIODIC BOYFRIENDS: Charles Rammelkamp considers Drew Pisarra’s unusual borrowing of Dmitri Mendeleev’s chemical classifications
Twilight. Reviewed by Alan Price. Images of uncompromising nature, in the form of the forests, mountains and plains, surrounding the ex-mining village Ronabanya in northern Hungary, begin and end the extraordinary Twilight.
As You Like It. Review by Barbara Lewis. The line “ripeness is all” from Shakespeare’s tragedy of old age Lear could easily be the motto of the RSC’s latest joyful version of one of his most youthful comedies of love.
By Barbara Lewis • comedy, plays, playwrights, theatre, year 2023 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, comedy, plays, playwrights, theatre