Poetry review – LEGION OF LOST LETTERS: Antoinette Moses admires Debasish Lahiri’s poems of isolation and exile
Poetry review – REELING AND WRITHING: Mat Riches compares Barry Smith’s new collection to a feast of rich and complex flavours
Poetry review – WHAT IT WAS: Cherry Doyle is impressed by the reality of the people and places evoked in Tina Cole’s new collection
STORM PEGS: Kevin Saving discusses Jen Hadfield’s new book, containing reflections on life in Shetland
Poetry review – SUBLIMITY: as a son of Norfolk, Mat Riches responds positively to Mary Gilonne’s poetic appreciation of the county
Poetry review – RAG ARGONAUTS : Naomi Foyle explores a new collection by Alan Morrison
Poetry review – CIRCUS: Jean Atkin admires this posthumous collection of poems by Colin Sutherill
Peter Devonald interviews award winning poet Jenny Mitchell
FROM WOUNDS TO EYES TO BUDS: Giorgia Meriggi reviews Franca Mancinelli’s All the Eyes that I Have Opened
Marie of Romania and the Pelisor Castle. Review by Barbara Lewis. Princess Marie Alexandra Victoria of Edinburgh became Marie of Romania after, guided by her family, she rejected a proposal from her first cousin the future King George V.
Ikiru (Kurosawa). Review by Alan Price. Ikiru has been translated as Living or To Live. Earlier on in the 1950/60’s it was Living and living with a six month’s only death sentence (The film’s protagonist is terminally ill with stomach cancer).
Poetry review – DRYPOINT: Edmund Prestwich admires the skill and economy in Jamie McKendrick’s poetry which leaves room for the reader’s own imagination
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2024 • Tags: books, Edmund Prestwich, poetry