* LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY – Winter 2019. This issue features: * Edmund Prestwich * Kate Noakes * Michael Crowley * Maggie Butt * Emma Lee *Tom Sommerville *Gordon Wood * Thomas Tyrrell *Anthony Dawson * Robert Nisbet * Wendy French *Stephen Claughton * Anne Ballard * Jan-An Saab * Sue Rose * Raymond Miller […]
Poetry Review – Blue Wallpaper: John Forth is impressed by the autobiographical element in Robert Hamberger’s new collection
Social Solidarity and the Arts in Woke Times: Michael Crowley advocates against an ever-increasing subdivision of the arts into racial, age-related or gender groups for a similar audience
David Mitchell reviews A History of Water in the Middle East at the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court
Poetry Review – Exposure. Stephen Claughton reviews a collection by Derek Adams which sharply captures key moments in the life of photographer Lee Miller
Poetry Review – The Possibility of Innocence. Jefferson Holdridge takes a measured look at a collection of thoughtful poems by Nicholas Bielby
Poetry Review – Safety Behaviour. Maxine Linnell enjoys following Emma Jeremy’s poetic imagination
Poetry Review – The Anatomical Venus. Pat Edwards responds to Helen Ivory’s new collection which confronts historical abuses of women
#WeAreArrested
Venue: Arcola Theatre, London
Dates of run: Until Dec 7
Co-production with Royal Shakespeare Company
Poetry Review – Aunts Come Armed with Welsh Cakes. Kate Noakes rather enjoys the contents – as well as the intriguing title – of Thirza Clout’s pamphlet collection
Poetry Review – Sightings. Mat Riches finds that Rose Cook has compressed a lot of looking at the world into one pamphlet
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Poetry Review – Dad Remember You Are Dead: Alwyn Marriage reckons that Jacqueline Saphra’s new collection is a book to wake the reader up