The London Handel Players, after touring Northern Ireland, Spain, Turkey, Canada and America, have returned to base for the 2023 – 2024 season. The ensemble specialises in Baroque chamber music.
Poetry Review – EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON: Pat Edwards discerns that Taz Rahman’s poems about city life are strongly motivated by a love of the natural world
* The Spring 2024 issue of London Grip New Poetry features: * Sarah Mnatzaganian * Jill Abram * Steve Black * Sue Rose * Ilse Pedler *Richard Smith * Karen Luke * Sarah Davies * Kenneth Pobo * Mark Carson * Christian Ward * Nick Cooke * Caroline Maldonado * Susan E Gunter * John […]
Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties. Review by Alan Price. Putting trailer hyperbole to one side, Hirsch has written one of the best, most engaging and detailed accounts of this wonderful, probably best, period in American cinema.
Poetry review – THE WIND AND THE RAIN: Alex Josephy finds grief and hope artfully balanced in Anthony Wilson’s well-crafted poems
Ida Lupino, Filmmaker. Review by Alan Price. Ida Lupino, Filmmaker is a welcome volume of essays on a director who isn’t easy to categorise and remains problematic and underappreciated because of that fact.
Poetry review – BLUES, PRAYERS, & PAGAN CHANTS: Charles Rammelkamp is especially appreciative of the gratitude present in these poems by Diane Sahms
MIND AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE: John Lucas finds helpful information and some degree of comfort in James Hodgson’s primer for those trying to get to grips with AI and the issues surrounding it
Poetry review – THE REMAINING MEN: Pat Edwards admires Martin Figura’s poetry for having a clear purpose and achieving it
CONTRAFLOW: Paul McDonald finds some surprises in a new and unusual anthology of English poetry from the last hundred years
Poetry review – SAVED TO CLOUD: Adele Ward finds the climate emergency and Covid restrictions can sit side-by-side with poems depicting a long life lived to the full in this collection by Kate Foley
Poetry review – HOLLYWOOD OR HOME: Charles Rammelkamp enjoys Kathryn Gray’s excursions into the illusory world of film where the past seems to be preserved even as time moves on for the rest of us.
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, film, poetry reviews, year 2024 • Tags: books, Charles Rammelkamp, film, poetry