THEIR SMILE AND THEIR TEARS: Alan Price considers two recent compilations of poetry by Giovanni Pascoli
THAT LITTLE THREAD: Merryn Williams reviews a thoughtful novel by John Lucas which explores both intellectual and emotional relationships.
Poetry review – MY LIFE, YOU SEE: Rosie Johnston is moved by this posthumously assembled collection of Martina Thomson’s poetry
Poetry review – WHILE THERE IS HOPE: Carla Scarano D’Antonio reviews a prize-winning chapbook by Karen Izod
Poetry review – LEARNING FINITY: Clare Morris admires the use of memory and story in these poems by Deborah Harvey
Poetry review – REPUBLIC: Pat Edwards reviews an unusual and original collection of prose-poems by Nerys Williams
Poetry review – ALL IN MEASURE: Charles Rammelkamp welcomes Heather Saunders Estes’ wise and encouraging poems about lockdown
Poetry review – BACK TO LIFE: Edmund Prestwich reviews a rich and wide-ranging collection by Michael Vince
Enys Men. Review by Alan Price. I doubt if 2023 will see a more visually beautiful British film than Enys Men. It’s a remarkable advance on Bait and confirms Jenkins to be a powerful poetic filmmaker.
![Piet Mondrian, Composition in colour B, 1917. Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 45 cm. Collection Kröller-Müller Museum[48965]](https://londongrip.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Piet-Mondrian-Composition-in-colour-B-1917.-Oil-on-canvas-50.5-x-45-cm.-Collection-Kroller-Muller-Museum48965-180x200.jpg "Piet Mondrian, Composition in colour B, 1917. Oil on canvas, 50.5 x 45 cm. Collection Kröller-Müller Museum[48965]")
Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian: Forms of Life. Review by Graham Buchan. I recommend this show because any exhibition which redresses the balance in favour of a neglected artist is to be commended even if, as I think, af Klint’s work is not altogether good.
Hands Up / Identification Marks: None. Review by Alan Price. Here’s an artist constantly on the move: hitting out with anger, wit and veiled compassion. I savour David Thomson’s summing up of this Polish maverick. “Skolimowski is a director who stalks us like a fighter with stunning blows in either hand.”
THREE SCORE YEARS AND TEN – Under Milk Wood seventy years on: an appreciation by Kevin Saving
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, literature, plays, poetry, theatre, year 2023 • Tags: authors, Kevin Saving, literature, plays, poetry, theatre