A HIGH CALLING: Paul McDonald enjoys an intriguing mix of poems, literary history, critical analysis and autobiography which John Greening uses to explore the motivations of a poet
Faro: A Bergman Pilgrimage, by Alan Price. In 1960 Bergman was scouting for locations for his film Through a Glass Darkly. Initially he was attracted to the Orkneys but a friend advised him to stay closer to home so he went to Faro.
Poetry review – MARGINAL FUTURE: James Roderick Burns examines S J Litherland’s rich and vivid state-of-the-nation collection and finds it grimly truthful but not without hope
Poetry review – A DRESS WITH DEEP POCKETS: Pat Edwards enjoys a slim but companionable collection by Jen Feroze
Object Z. Review by Alan Price. Object Z is a SF rarity from 1965 that’s just been exhumed from the archive vaults and nicely restored. This six part serial of half hour episodes was screened in the children’s tea time slot, on Rediffusion TV, after its director Daphne Shadwell advised scriptwriter Christopher McMaster to aim for that audience.
Poetry Review – HOTEL AMOUR: Sarah Leavesley finds this collection by Deryn Rees-Jones offers questions and images that are endlessly fascinating
Poetry review – GLANDSCAPES: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a grimly frank medical memoir-in-poems by Mickie Kennedy
LSO, Barbican. Review by Julia Pascal. What an amazing double bill the LSO offered for the start of its Barbican season under the direction Antonio Pappano: Aaron Copland’s Symphony No 3, with it haunting and thrilling Fanfare for the Common Man and Leonard Bernstein Symphony No 3 Kaddish.
Tilda Swinton – Ongoing. Review by Barbara Lewis. In 1994, Tilda Swinton at the age of 33 went to 43 funerals, including that of Derek Jarman, the artist who had shaped her way of working that she terms “co-authorship”.
Poetry review – HAUNT ME: Charles Rammelkamp considers José Enrique Medina’s unusual ways of dealing with grief and loss
Poetry review – BLUE IN GREEN: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs enjoys the warm and gently upbeat tone of John Harvey’s latest chapbook
Bartók in Space and Time. Review by Barbara Lewis. Brussels’ Centre for Fine Arts, known as the Bozar, was designed by Belgium’s most celebrated architect Victor Horta and completed in 1929. Eight years later, Bela Bartok composed his “Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta”.
By Barbara Lewis • architecture, music, year 2025 • Tags: architecture, Barbara Lewis, music