Wendy Klein finds that the poetic colours in Myra Schneider’s new collection have been skilfully mixed from choice ingredients
Sarah Lawson reviews a debut novel by Shanta Acharya which deals engagingly and touchingly with a young woman’s hopes and disappointments in India during the 1960s.
An exhibition of the extraordinary output of France’s Henri Cartier-Bresson, hailed as the founder of photojournalism and “the eye of the century”. That is true in the fullest sense of the words, given his exceptional ability to see the telling detail, or, in his own words, to seize the fact related to “the deep reality”.
Paul McLoughlin finds an appropriately lyrical way to show his appreciation of a new collection by Richard Kell
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs finds Joël Dicker’s weighty novel to be a good solid, holiday read .
Emma Lee admires Mandy Kahn’s debut collection for its spare evocative lyrics
David Cooke gives an appreciative overview of a comprehensive new anthology of Russian poetry
With their green goats, giant roosters and bridal couples flying through the air, Marc Chagall’s works appear fantastic, but he insisted he only painted direct reminiscences of his own life.
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs enjoys exploring and sometimes unravelling the tightly wrought poems in a first collection by New Zealand poet John Dennison
Emma Lee finds the new collection from Richard Thomas is one that benefits from being re-visited.
A trawl through an old school year book and the realisation of how many contemporaries had ended their own lives underlined for writer Pearse Elliott the truth that suicide is so prevalent it has acquired the force of the inevitable.
* This issue of London Grip New Poetry features poems by: . *Stephen Bone *Anthony Costello *Edward Mycue *Ben Banyard *Derek Adams *Danielle Hope *Imogen Forster *Pam Job *Ajise Vincent *Peter Phillips *James W Wood *Antony Johae *Norbert Hirschhorn *Genevieve Scanlan *Tanya Nightingale *Kat Soini *Katherine Venn *Jan Hutchison *Peter Branson *Teoti Jardine *Ian C Smith […]
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