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.
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Poetry review – UNKNOWN WOMAN AND OTHER ATTACHMENTS: Jennifer Johnson considers a collection of well-observed vignettes and character studies by Alan Price
855-FOR-TRUTH: An end of the world love story. Review by Barbara Lewis. “LUST IS A SIN. BURN IN HELL, OR CALL 855-FOR-TRUTH,” were the words writer Eva Hudson saw screaming from a billboard at the side of a highway as she journeyed through America.
Poetry review – INTO THE HUSH: Charles Rammelkamp delights in the small appreciative details among Arthur Sze’s observations of the universe
Golem – Piotr Szulkin. Review by Alan Price. Golem is a brave oddity: an out to lunch curiosity that equally attracts and repels. It’s great that Second Run have made it available again.
Poetry review – TINY BRIGHT THORNS: Marcelle Newbold admires the way Jen Feroze makes poetry from impressions of early motherhood
Poetry review – ANXIOUS BRICOLAGE: Jennifer Johnson is intrigued and impressed by an unusual long poem from Richard Leigh
Poetry review – WASH: Charles Rammelkamp relishes Ebony Stewart’s lively and down-to-earth take on life
Poetry review – AT A TANGENT: Neil Elder admires a well put together New and Selected from John Weston
The Double Act. Review by Barbara Lewis. This unsettling, multi-layered, hilarious dive into the great modern British divisions of north versus south, woke versus non-woke – and bullies versus clowns – has its deepest roots in a childhood lived close to the seaside towns of northwest England.
Kyoto. Review by Barbara Lewis. Oil – the fuel of Western capitalism – was the issue in 1997 when the Kyoto Protocol delivered the first set of targets to limit its use. Nearly three decades later, far too little has changed.
BREATH AND SHADOW: Charles Rammelkamp enjoys a collection of short-short stories by Robert Scotellaro and Meg Pokrass
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, year 2025 • Tags: books, Charles Rammelkamp, fiction