London Grip Poetry Review – Guus Luijters
Peter Ualrig Kennedy recommends an epic and heartbreaking poem, beautifully translated from the Dutch of Guus Luijters
Of All That Ends
Leah Fritz offers a very personal response to a final compilation of writings by Günter Grass
The Revisited Myth: archaic masks of Basilicata. Review by Carla Scarano.
The mesmerising Casina delle Civette (House of the Owls) hosts an intriguing exhibition of masks by Nicola Toce inspired by the Carnival traditions of Basilicata, a region in Southern Italy.
Edvard Munch ‘Love and Angst’. Review by Barbara Lewis.
We’ve all seen it a hundred times, identified with it and even messaged using an emoticon version of Edvard Munch’s skull-like face, clutched by hands raised in horror in a distorted, nightmarish world.
Swinging London: A Lifestyle Revolution. Review by Barbara Lewis.
If Brexit is the result of a backward-looking nostalgia, the Swinging London of the Chelsea Set was the opposite: it marked a determination to move on from the devastation and austerity left by World War II.
London Grip Poetry Review – Fawzi Karim
David Cooke commends the ability of Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim both to reflect and to transcend his own circumstances
London Grip Poetry Review – Maitreyabandhu
Kate Noakes relishes a short sequence by Maitreyabandhu which combines nature writing and memoir
London Grip Poetry Review – Anne Stewart
Merryn Williams discovers that Anne Stewart’s poems about bereavement succeed on several levels
London Grip Poetry Review – James Davies
Jeremy Wikeley eventually comes to terms with the unconventional poetry of James Davies
London Grip Poetry Review- Greg Gilbert
Mat Riches assesses the success of Greg Gilbert’s attempts to make poetry out of his experience of serious illness
London Grip Poetry Review – Wendy Holborow
Stephen Claughton is transported by Wendy Holborow’s atmospheric poems from India and Africa
Women body and image, between symbol and revolution. Review by Carla Scarano.
The ideal venue of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in via Francesco Crispi in Rome displays a vast range of pictures and sculptures from the Capitoline collections retracing the interpretation and development of the female form and her artistic personality from the end of the nineteenth century until today.