Poetry review – WITH SIGNS FOLLOWING: Rennie Halstead finds a tension between poetic craft and accessibility in this collection by David Ricks
Poetry review – MAKING DOLMADES IN ESSEX: Diana Cant visits a childhood and adolescence lived in the 1950’s and 60’s, brought to evocative life in Judith Wozniak’s debut collection.
Emilia Perez. Review by Graham Buchan. A story about violence as a musical? A drug lord wanting to transition to a woman? A song by a Thai sex-change surgeon? A singer who cannot sing? A director working in a language he doesn’t know? None of it should work. But it does, brilliantly.
No Part-Time Dreamer: A review of Anju Makhija’s New & Selected Poems by Debasish Lahiri
Poetry review – EARWIG COUNTRY: DA Prince is drawn into Angela Topping’s poems about memories and connections
Poetry review – THE NEW HERBAL: Nick Cooke finds a way through the complex poems in Fran Lock’s latest pamphlet
The Hop-Pickers. Review by Alan Price. Before director Ladislav Rychman made The Hop-Pickers (1964) Czech cinema had no tradition of the screen musical.
Poetry review –NAMING A HURRICANE: Charles Rammelkamp is astonished by the forceful and personal poetry in Madeline Artenberg’s new collection
THE BOOMING LOVELIES: Stephen Claughton visits one of London’s newer poetry venues at The Spice of Life
Rigoletto. Review by Julia Pascal. Concept is all. And director Jonathan Miller’s decision to set Verdi’s disturbing melodrama in 1950s New York Little Italy is genius.
Directed by Roman Polanski. Review by Alan Price. If you want to know what Roman Polanski was up to in the 1990’s (either to decry his artistic decline or applaud his re-invigoration) then Directed by Roman Polanski has to be seen.
Powell and Pressburger’s War. Review by Alan Price. From 1939-1946 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger produced eight remarkable propaganda feature films but neither felt their artistic integrity was compromised from being backed by The Ministry of Information.
By Alan Price • books, film, year 2024 • Tags: Alan Price, books, film