Love’s Labour’s Lost. Review by Barbara Lewis. In our angst-ridden age, the thirst for the tonic of musical theatre seems almost unquenchable. In a production that acknowledges so vividly the follies of the supposedly scholarly elite, the rustics dazzle.
Poetry review – FEELING UNUSUAL: John Forth gets to grips with Ann Drysdale‘s vivid imagery and imagination
Poetry review – NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, 1966 -2020: Fred Johnston admires Donald Gardner’s well-crafted poetic chronicling of his times
Poetry review – GOLIAT: Pat Edwards is captivated by Rhiannon Hooson’s new collection
Dersu Uzala, Kurosawa. Review by Alan Price. Dersa Uzala is a minor Kurosawa film with three major virtues: outstanding photography, a direction finely tuned to nature and a wonderfully believable performance from the Tuva actor Maksim Munzuck playing Dersa.
Poetry review – THE BEAUTIFUL OPEN SKY: Rachael Clyne is impressed by a debut chapbook collection from Hannah Linden
THIS RARE SPIRIT: Kevin Saving shares some thoughts on the life of poet Charlotte Mew as set out in a recent biography by Julia Copus
Lucien Freud, New Perspectives. Review by Graham Buchan. The National Gallery has a big, comprehensive exhibition – over 60 paintings – to mark the centenary of Lucien Freud’s birth and to document the whole range of his seven-decade painting career.
Poetry review – DREAM INTO PLAY: Carla Scarano examines the puzzles and contradictions expressed in Richard Skinner’s poetry
THE ANCHORED WORLD: Charles Rammelkamp admires a varied selection of fables composed and compiled by Jasmine Sawers
Poetry review – POSSIBLY A POMEGRANATE: Pat Edwards welcomes Alwyn Marriage’s new collection which is subtitled Celebrating Womankind
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