London Grip Poetry Review – Robert Peake
Adele Ward praises Robert Peake’s highly personal collection for both skill and emotional authenticity
Othello, Union Theatre. Review by Barbara Lewis.
Almost exactly 100 years ago on April 13, in Amritsar, the British Indian Army fired into a crowd of unarmed Punjabis, killing and harming hundreds. Director Phil Wilmott marks this appalling example of man’s inhumanity to man by transporting Othello from Venice and Cyprus to the India of the British Raj.
Jeff Koons, Ashmolean Museum. Review by Carla Scarano.
The vitality of breath and its life power expressed in Jeff Koons’ sculptures and paintings mesmerise the viewer at the Ashmolean exhibition.
London Grip Poetry Review – Kate Davis
Adele Ward admires the skill with which Kate Davis’s complex debut collection has been put together
London Grip Poetry Review – David Cooke
Neil Fulwood recognises David Cooke’s poetic virtues of straight talk and lucidity
London Grip Poetry Review – Steve Rudd
Carla Scarano reviews a serious and uncompromising new collection from Steve Rudd
The Swan Princess: Russian Art, Munch Museum, Oslo. Review by Barbara Lewis
Edvard Munch from next year will be displayed in a new aluminium tower that has divided local opinion as it changes the skyline near Oslo’s iceberg-like opera house on the waterfront.
London Grip Poetry Review – Alex Josephy
Maria C. McCarthy commends Alex Josephy’s illustrated selection of poems about Tuscany
London Grip Poetry Review – John Greening
Stuart Henson reflects on the serendipity that led to the creation of a high-quality artist’s book from Redfox Press which combines photographic images with poems by John Greening
London Grip Poetry Review – Merryn Williams
Emma Lee finds that Merryn Williams’ poetic skills are well displayed in this collection of new and selected poems
London Grip Poetry Review – Heather Moulson
Carla Scarano appreciates the humour in a collection of poems from Heather Moulson drawing on the comic-book world of the 60s and 70s
Nellie Cressall on the Isle of Dogs Part 1, by Jane McChrystal.
In 1962 The Westinghouse Corporation made a documentary film exploring the state of the nation as Britain continued to register the aftershocks of war, adjusted to the loss of empire and witnessed the erosion of its status as a world-class industrial nation.