Poetry review – BELIEVING IN THE PLANET: Alwyn Marriage welcomes a new collection by Myra Schneider, dealing with many themes from the environmental to the personal
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Poetry review – BRIDGING TIME 1944-2024: Thomas Ovans is both intrigued and moved by Patricia Townsend’s sonnet sequence incorporating and responding to wartime letters from her father. . .
Drifting. Review by Barbara Lewis. Social divisions have only deepened in the decade since the Ardent company was founded to try to make the world of theatre, long dominated by the privileged classes, less exclusive.
Maurice Ravel: Critical Lives by Emily Kilpatrick. Review by Alan Price. My first introduction to Ravel was his (1907) Introduction and Allegro. I was 20 and working in a record shop and the piece enchanted me. I’d never realised that classical music could be so sensual, so seductive and so beautiful.
. Poetry review – BREAKFAST WITH THE SCAVENGERS: Pat Edwards finds Ben Rhys Palmer’s collection to be a bit of a wake-up call
Poetry review – COLLECTED LONGER POEMS: Jennifer Johnson admires the range and depth of Anthony Howell’s poetry
The House of Mirth. Review by Alan Price. “Why can one never do a natural thing without screening it behind a structure of artifice?” That observation by socialite Lily Bart encapsulates the mental trap she’s caught in: trying to negotiate her real feelings in a shallow society desperate to keep up appearances.
WAYWARD THOUGHTS: Pat Edwards reviews an album of poetry & lute music by Cheryl Moskowitz & Sam Brown
The Ice Tower. Review by Alan Price. The Ice Tower is almost ‘mainstream’ compared to Hadzihalilovic’s earlier films. It’s certainly her most accessible production and definitely one of my films of the year.
Poetry review – THE LUCK: Alex Josephy is moved by Jane Routh’s poems about human impact upon the rest of the natural world
The Sea Horse. Review by Barbara Lewis. Fifty years after its Broadway premiere, this London revival makes Edward J. Moore’s exploration of why a woman might find it almost impossible to trust a man as relevant as ever.
Poetry review – THE APOTHEOSIS OF MUSIC: Daniel Barbiero reviews a new translation of poems by Witold Wirpsza and considers the effect of history on the poet’s work
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