Write like a man. Review by Julia Pascal. Ronnie A. Grinberg’s detailed analysis of mid-twentieth century America’s masculine Jewish literary elites is a careful examination of the major personalities.
Poetry review – OKAPI: Rosie Johnston considers Fiona Moore’s book-length poem of eloquent reflection on disorienting personal experience
Poetry review – A BIRD CALLED ELAEUS: Edmund Prestwich admires David Constantine’s contemporary renderings of selections from an anthology spanning some 2000 years of Greek poetry
Poetry review – SELF GEOFFERENTIAL: Charles Rammelkamp takes two-fold pleasure from Geoffrey Gatza’s new collection
High and Low and Stray Dog (Kurosawa). Review by Alan Price. Crime films with a tinge of film noir are not the obvious genres that spring to mind when you think of the typical output of Akira Kurosawa.
THE TRAVELS OF A PINK FEATHER: Lisa Kelly reports from the first international Performance Poetry Biennial Symposium-Festival
Dante’s Divine Comedy. Review by Alan Price. Here we have a guide to the circumstances and influence of Dante’s great poem and a prose translation of The Divine Comedy.
Films. Review by Barbara Lewis. Antwerp-based drawer, ceramicist, installationist, and now film maker Rinus Van de Velde defines his work as “fictional autobiography”. To the core a studio artist, four white walls are, for him, liberating rather than constraining.
Alfred Hitchcock – All the Films. Review by Alan Price. The first thing to do with a book like this is to check that all of Hitchcock’s films have been covered. And not just the well-known titles but lesser-known works too.
THE GOBLIN BAND: Jenny Vuglar reviews a performance at Cecil Sharp House on 4 December 2024
Poetry review – STAR: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch reviews a collection of Christmas poems by Angela Graham
Poetry review – JUST BREATHE: Emma Storr is moved by Trish Kerrison’s poems dealing frankly with the challenges of long-term illness
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