Jeremy Wikeley eventually comes to terms with the unconventional poetry of James Davies
Mat Riches assesses the success of Greg Gilbert’s attempts to make poetry out of his experience of serious illness
Stephen Claughton is transported by Wendy Holborow’s atmospheric poems from India and Africa
In 1962 The Westinghouse Corporation made a documentary film exploring the state of the nation as Britain continued to register the aftershocks of war, adjusted to the loss of empire and witnessed the erosion of its status as a world-class industrial nation.
Adele Ward praises Robert Peake’s highly personal collection for both skill and emotional authenticity
Almost exactly 100 years ago on April 13, in Amritsar, the British Indian Army fired into a crowd of unarmed Punjabis, killing and harming hundreds. Director Phil Wilmott marks this appalling example of man’s inhumanity to man by transporting Othello from Venice and Cyprus to the India of the British Raj.
The vitality of breath and its life power expressed in Jeff Koons’ sculptures and paintings mesmerise the viewer at the Ashmolean exhibition.
Adele Ward admires the skill with which Kate Davis’s complex debut collection has been put together
Neil Fulwood recognises David Cooke’s poetic virtues of straight talk and lucidity
Carla Scarano reviews a serious and uncompromising new collection from Steve Rudd
Edvard Munch from next year will be displayed in a new aluminium tower that has divided local opinion as it changes the skyline near Oslo’s iceberg-like opera house on the waterfront.
Merryn Williams discovers that Anne Stewart’s poems about bereavement succeed on several levels
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, Merryn Williams, poetry