Poetry review – HAWK’S CRY: Charles Rammelkamp considers a collection by Mary Pacifico Curtis which reflects on the fraught relationship between ourselves and our planet
year 2023
Poetry review – GIFTS OF THE DARK: John Mole follows Simon Bowden on his journey through serious illness and toward recovery
Interrogation (Bugajski). Review by Alan Price. Two thirds of the way through Interrogation (1982) the police interrogator tells his female prisoner not to be so naïve to belief that her husband and friends couldn’t be complicit in informing on others, betraying their loved ones: for this is how the world works and she needs to wake up to the fact that “there is no unconditional honesty.”
BRISKET FOR ONE: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a new collection of stories by Iris N. Schwartz
Poetry review – CALDER: D A Prince follows Emily Oldfield on a poetic exploration of Yorkshire landscape
Partie de Campagne. Review by Alan Price. Partie de Campagne is a period piece set in 1860, an adaptation of the Guy de Maupassant short story, A Day in the Country (1881).
Targets. Review by Alan Price. Although Peter Bogdanovich’s film Targets is usually categorised as a crime thriller I feel more comfortable calling it a suburban horror film. This is a chilling story of sniper Bobby Thompson (Tim O’Kelly) who goes on a killing spree: a motiveless Vietnam veteran turned psychopathic: a young, clean cut modern monster.
WILD TRACK: John Lucas admires Sean Street’s eloquent exploration of possible responses to birdsong – from the poet’s to the sound engineer’s
Last Night of The Proms 2023. Review by Julia Pascal. It was the presence of the hundreds of blue EU flags which made me realise that the Last Night of the Proms is not just a xeno-fest. It is a testimony to the international element of art and music.
Poetry review – AD HOC: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a highly original debut collection by Hayden Bergman
Death Note, The Musical in Concert. Review by Barbara Lewis. The Japanese manga Death Note has sold more than 30 million copies, making it one of the best-selling mangas yet. Whether the musical version can be as successful in our straitened times remains to be seen. Judging by the London run, it’s conceivable.
We Want To Be Sung To While We Drown Poetry review – NEPTUNE’S PROJECTS: Guy Russell surveys an ambitious collection by Rishi Dastidar which is in effect an elegy for our world
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