Poetry review: Merryn Williams looks at recent collections by Paul Binding, Rennie Parker and Andrew Sant
year 2025
Poetry review – exposure: Nick Cooke is impressed by this debut chapbook from Eric Yip
Poetry review – THE SHORES OF VAIKUS: Stuart Henson is captivated by this myth-like sequence of sometimes cruel, sometimes enchanting prose-poems by Philip Gross
Poetry review – A RAVEN ON A WRITING DESK: D A Prince finds an intriguing mix of both rich and pared-back language in Julie Hogg’s collection
THE MOON LOOKS ON THEM ALL: Angela Topping browses a collection of essays by John Lucas on the subject of friends and friendship
Poetry review – DEAR LIFE: Jennifer Johnson admires the broad and compassionate scope of a major collection by Shanta Acharya
The Marriage of Figaro. Review by Julia Pascal. In The Marriage of Figaro, director Joe Hill-Gibbins sets the comic opera in a contemporary décor which pulls the 18th century critique of misogyny into our own time.
Poetry review – OCTOPUS MIND: Kate Noakes finds Rachel Carney’s examination of dyspraxia to be both perceptive and precise.
BREATH AND SHADOW: Charles Rammelkamp enjoys a collection of short-short stories by Robert Scotellaro and Meg Pokrass
Stalled. Review by Barbara Lewis. The toilet options in the refurbished King’s Head Theatre are urinals for the real men and, for everyone else, unisex cubicles – or should I say stalls? to pick up the central pun in this musical set in a restroom that is exclusively for women.
Poetry review – UNKNOWN WOMAN AND OTHER ATTACHMENTS: Jennifer Johnson considers a collection of well-observed vignettes and character studies by Alan Price
* ISSUE 55 OF LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY features poems by: *Maggie Wadey *Stephen Komarnyckyj *Marilyn Ricci *Denise Bundred *Sam Szanto *Anne Bailey *Clare Starling *Lisa Kelly *Jennifer Johnson *John Whitehouse *Mark McDonnell *Dmitry Blizniuk *Tony D’Arpino *Glenn Hubbard *Nicki Heinen *Anne Eyries *Josh Ekroy *Wendy Klein *Paul Stephenson *Norton Hodges *Ruth Lexton *Caleb Murdock […]
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