Emma Lee takes a cool look at the poetry of Hera Lindsay Bird
Isabel Dixon of Burn Bright Theatre has dramatised Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein two hundred years after its first publication, with two women as its protagonists, Elizabeth Frankenstein and the creature, played by Danielle Winter and Elizabeth Schenk.
* This issue of London Grip New Poetry features poems by: * M W Bewick *Frank Dullaghan *Anne Ballard *Mary Michaels *Sanjeev Sethi *Ray Miller * Richard Lewis *Thomas McColl *Stephen Claughton *Phil Kirby * Stuart Pickford *Heidi Williamson * Sarah James *Kate Noakes * Carol DeVaughn * Jim C Wilson * P W Bridgman […]
So far, critics seem to agree that Egan has eschewed experimentation on this occasion and turned her hand to an old-fashioned crime thriller wrapped in an historical novel.
Nick Cooke relishes Stephen Bone’s poetic exploration of some darker aspects of botany
Sands Films Cinema Club of Rotherhithe regularly shows well-known classics and rarely-seen gems as part of a programme designed to bring the best of world cinema to a London audience.
Rip Bulkeley describes the planning and production of a forthcoming anthology of poems responding to the fire in Grenfell Tower .
James Roderick Burns finds that Angela Topping’s poetry exercises a powerful force upon the reader
La Forza del Destino was first performed in 1862. Not satisfied, Verdi carried on revising it for years, adding in 1869 the famous sinfonia overture that announces so many of the work’s overwhelming musical themes.
Human relationships boil down to trust and betrayal; power and powerlessness. It’s the story of Hollywood and Harvey Weinstein and it’s the gruelling plot of Tosca.
Paul McLoughlin is impressed by the breadth of subject matter from which Alan Dixon can make poetry
Stuart Henson approves the Very Selected concept in general and Michael Laskey’s volume in particular
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2018 • Tags: books, poetry, Stuart Henson