Extérieurs. Review by Barbara Lewis. Annie Ernaux in 2022 became the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature after producing a body of work that charts her progress from working class origins, feelings of shame during her years being educated at private school that she was not sufficiently bourgeois, to her career as a teacher, then full-time writer.
Poetry review – OVER THE EDGE: James Roderick Burns willingly follows Norbert Hirschhorn on a bold exploration of the sadder and darker aspects of life and relationships
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.
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
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 – CHEAP MOTELS OF MY YOUTH: Charles Rammelkamp warmly welcomes a new collection by George Bilgere Cheap Motels of My Youth George Bilgere Rattle, 2024 ISBN: 978-1-931307-56-7 40 pages $9.00 George Bilgere’s poems are always poignant and funny, clever and intelligent. He writes movingly about age and time, just as […]
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