Poetry review – WHATEVER YOU DO, JUST DON’T:Emma Storr finds Matthew Stewart ‘s collection both entertaining and thought-provoking
Hamnet. Review by Graham Buchan. It is said to be awards-worthy, but here are reasons why Hamnet is an exceptionally bad film.
European forests essay. By Stephanie Sears. Europe’s closest ally may be its forests: ”A culture is no better than its woods.” W.H.Auden
Worlds Apart. Review by Julia Pascal. This memoir is an astonishing chronicle of recent German history seen through the eyes of a girl born in the East and brought up in the West. Except that she was not brought up at all.
. Book review – HORACE — POET ON A VOLCANO: Kevin Saving considers Peter Stothard‘s study of the Roman poet
Poetry review – THE LUCK: Alex Josephy admires the craft and quiet humour in Jane Routh’s poem’s celebrating the importance of the natural world
Poetry review – ALEPH BET: Wendy Klein admires the poetry that Sue Rose can extract from her study of the Hebrew alphabet
. Book review – SUPER-INFINITE: THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF JOHN DONNE : Kevin Saving looks at a new biography by Katherine Rundell
Poetry Review – COMPASS LIGHT: Stuart Henson looks into the spiritual and temporal depths of a new collection by Hilary Davies
* LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY #54 — WINTER 2024 features poems by: *Stuart Henson *Sian Meades-Williams *Michael Mintrom *Tony Dawson *Ray Miller *Biljana Scott *Giorgia Caso *Kate Noakes *Kathy Miles *Anthony Wilson *Heather Walker *John Bartlett *Edward Lee *Jackie Wills *Lee Campbell *Jennifer M Phillips *Paul McGrane *Briege Duffaud *Abu Ibrahim *Pam Job *Gareth Writer-Davies *Julian Dobson *Kathy Pimlott *Janet Rogerson *Kate Hendry *J R Solonche *Jayne Stanton *Vivienne Tregenza *Maria Isakova-Bennett *Gareth Culshaw *Philip Dunkerley *Jena Woodhouse *Damen O’Brien *Sarah […]
Quarantaine. Review by Barbara Lewis. Flanders in its golden age produced the painters Van Eyck and Memling. Around six centuries on, the work of Belgian conceptual artist Honoré δ’O, at first sight bears no relation to his aesthetic forebears.
ORWELL: THE NEW LIFE: Kevin Saving discusses D J Taylor’s new biography of George Orwell
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, year 2023