Poetry review – A DRESS WITH DEEP POCKETS: Pat Edwards enjoys a slim but companionable collection by Jen Feroze
year 2025
Object Z. Review by Alan Price. Object Z is a SF rarity from 1965 that’s just been exhumed from the archive vaults and nicely restored. This six part serial of half hour episodes was screened in the children’s tea time slot, on Rediffusion TV, after its director Daphne Shadwell advised scriptwriter Christopher McMaster to aim for that audience.
Poetry Review – HOTEL AMOUR: Sarah Leavesley finds this collection by Deryn Rees-Jones offers questions and images that are endlessly fascinating
Poetry review – GLANDSCAPES: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a grimly frank medical memoir-in-poems by Mickie Kennedy
LSO, Barbican. Review by Julia Pascal. What an amazing double bill the LSO offered for the start of its Barbican season under the direction Antonio Pappano: Aaron Copland’s Symphony No 3, with it haunting and thrilling Fanfare for the Common Man and Leonard Bernstein Symphony No 3 Kaddish.
Poetry review – HAUNT ME: Charles Rammelkamp considers José Enrique Medina’s unusual ways of dealing with grief and loss
Poetry review – BLUE IN GREEN: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs enjoys the warm and gently upbeat tone of John Harvey’s latest chapbook
Nosferatu, The Vampyre. Review by Alan Price. For me there are only four vampire films that can be called great. They are Nosferatu (Murnau, 1922), Nosferatu, The Vampyre (Herzog, 1979), Dracula (Badham, 1979) and Dracula (Fisher, 1958) that are both faithful and part loose adaptations of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. All are successful for different reasons.
Poetry review – EJECT CITY: Charles Rammelkamp considers a fairly dark collection by Jason Morphew
. Poetry review – WATER: Tim Murphy reviews Haleh Liza Gafori’s new translation of Rumi’s poetry
Aguirre, The Wrath of God. Review by Alan Price. The on-location stories of Werner Herzog’s clashes with Klaus Kinski on Aguirre, The Wrath of God, have passed into cinematic legend. The most alarming being Kinski wanting to leave the film after Herzog refused to dismiss one of the technical crew, for at this point Herzog is supposed to have made Kinski act at gunpoint.
Poetry review – MARGINAL FUTURE: James Roderick Burns examines S J Litherland’s rich and vivid state-of-the-nation collection and finds it grimly truthful but not without hope
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