Poetry review – DISTANCE TO INFINITY: Charles Rammelkamp commends g emil reutter’s willingness to issue vigorous poetic warnings about dictatorships around the world and especially in the USA
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Eyes Without a Face. Review by Alan Price. The BFI’s transfer (containing extra shorts, new commentary and a documentary) is the best print I’ve ever seen of a masterwork that’s both acutely painful yet tenderly poetic.
Poetry review – COMPASS LIGHT: Stuart Henson suggests that the poetry of Hilary Davies might be seen as sacred music for a secular world Compass Light Hilary Davies Renard Press ISBN 978-1-80447-159-3 £10 ‘SANS DIEU RIEN’ says the clock at Ingatestone Hall, the Tudor manor house in Essex: a motto that speaks […]
Poetry review – FABRICS, FANCIES & FENS: Caroline Maldonado considers a diverse but consistently accessible collection by Gerald Killingworth
Poetry review – FOR THE DURATION: Jim Greenhalf finds much to admire in a new collection by Nicholas Bielby
Mistero Buffo. Review by Barbara Lewis. Do we need to believe something to make it real? Conversely, if we believe something, does it become real? The question is central to our post-truth times and to Dario Fo’s daring questioning of blind faith that was for years banned as blasphemous.
Short Sharp Shocks. Review by Alan Price. Overall it’s fascinating to see what kind of films the BFI once commissioned and TV stations slipped onto their schedules. Mario Zampi’s reputation rests on three classic comedies, The Naked Truth, Laughter in Paradise and Too Many Crooks.
Poetry review – UNSUNG: Pat Edwards admires Emma Purshouse’s skill in making poems from the stuff of everyday life
Bartók in Space and Time. Review by Barbara Lewis. Brussels’ Centre for Fine Arts, known as the Bozar, was designed by Belgium’s most celebrated architect Victor Horta and completed in 1929. Eight years later, Bela Bartok composed his “Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta”.
A HIGH CALLING: Paul McDonald enjoys an intriguing mix of poems, literary history, critical analysis and autobiography which John Greening uses to explore the motivations of a poet
Faro: A Bergman Pilgrimage, by Alan Price. In 1960 Bergman was scouting for locations for his film Through a Glass Darkly. Initially he was attracted to the Orkneys but a friend advised him to stay closer to home so he went to Faro.
Poetry review – AFTER THE MIRACLE: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs admires the clarity and the intensity of Richard Meier’s poems
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