Poetry review – MUSIC, AWAKE HER: Edmund Prestwich admires both musicality and mutually illuminating images in a new collection by Martha Kapos
year 2024
* Issue 52 of London Grip New Poetry features poems by: *Julia Stothard *Rod Whitworth *Keith Nunes *Rosemary Norman *Kathleen McPhilemy *Pam Thompson *Thea Smiley *Mimi Kunz *Sue Norton *Martine Padwell * Jenny Mitchell *Konstandinos Mahoney *Jane Simpson *Lorraine Carey * Rachael Clyne *Pam Job *Tess Jolly *Pam Zinnemann-Hope * Maria Taylor *Marian Kilcoyne *Lydia […]
Poetry review – SHIFTING SANDS: Chris Hardy enjoys the way that Anne Symons explores the human element in some familiar and unfamiliar stories
Poetry review – WAYS TO SAY WE’RE NOT ALONE: Louise Warren enjoys Simon Alderwick’s distinctive and original imagination and use of language
Romeo and Juliet. Review by Julia Pascal. This production has not been seen in London since 2009. Consequently, most Londoners will know revivals of Kenneth MacMillan’s famous 1965 version which has regularly been performed by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden.
Poetry review – THE DEPARTURE SONATAS: Charles Rammelkamp finds Wade Stevenson’s approach to mortality to be both lyrical and wise
Poetry review – HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN: A first collection by Chris Bullock is enlivened by some sharp and surprising insights
Poetry Review –KNEE TO KNEE: Amelia Walker reviews collaborative poetry by Rachel Goodman & Elvire Roberts
Poetry review – UNTIL NEXT TIME: Charles Rammelkamp finds the blues running through this major retrospective collection of g emil reutter’s poetry
May Be at Sadler’s Wells. Review by Julia Pascal. I walk into a Paris bookshop and ask if they can offer me play texts by contemporary French authors. The assistant directs me to a shelf of plays by Samuel Beckett. To the French, Samuel Beckett is one of theirs. He wrote in French. He lived most of his life in France. But was he Irish? Anglo-Irish? French?
Film Focus Kim Novak. Review by Alan Price. For too many people Kim Novak has been over-associated with one supreme film Vertigo (1958). Being the luminous blonde icon in what is now universally considered to be one of the greatest films ever made has placed Novak on a Hitchcock-driven goddess pedestal that has tended to eclipse her other intense acting achievements.
HARDY WOMEN: MOTHER, SISTERS, WIVES, MUSES: Kevin Saving reviews Paula Byrne’s extensive examination of significant women in Thomas Hardy’s life
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