Poetry review – THE CELESTIAL SPHERES: Peter Ualrig Kennedy has had a great time reading David Canning’s strong and vivid poems.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Charlie Hill, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – LOST CITY: Charlie Hill finds there are consolations among the bleak settings for Roz Goddard’s poems
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • poetry, year 2020 • Tags: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry • 0 Comments
* The Winter 2020 issue of LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY features: * Kathryn de Leon * Steve Black * Chris Hardy * Stuart Handysides * Briege Duffaud * Frederick Pollack * Ian Heffernan * Brian Docherty * R G Jodah * Maggie Freeman * Elizabeth Smither * Jan-An Saab * Julia Duke * Jeni Curtis […]
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Louise Warren, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review: Louise Warren reviews two new Indigo Dreams collections by Isabelle Kenyon and Claire Booker
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Merryn Williams, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review: Merryn Williams looks at two new Shoestring collections from Clare Brant & Alexis Lykiard
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: Angela Topping, books, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – THE EMMA PRESS ANTHOLOGY OF ILLNESS: Angela Topping gives a sense of the variety in this collection of poems dealing frankly with the experience of being sick or injured.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, film, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Emma Lee, film, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – COOKING WITH MARILYN: Emma Lee enjoys Angela Readman’s poetic portrait of a film star
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, travel, year 2020 • Tags: books, Brian Docherty, poetry, travel • 1 Comment
Poetry review – A CITY WAKING UP: Brian Docherty detects the voice of a woke woman in Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s new collection
by Barbara Lewis • music, opera, travel, year 2020 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, music, opera, travel •
Grange Park Opera Interim Season. Simon Keenlyside: An Autumn Walk in Wales (available online). Review by Barbara Lewis: Context is all, says Simon Keenlyside, as for the second time this year he delivers a musical tour of his own personal context – the woods around his Welsh home.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – HOW THE HELL ARE YOU: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs appreciates the highly individual worldview revealed in Glyn Maxwell’s new collection
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Julie Hogg, poetry • 0 Comments
Poetry review – WE COULD BE ANYWHERE BY NOW: Julie Hogg observes that Katherine Stansfield’s enjoyment of language doesn’t prevent her tackling darker subjects