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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2022 • Tags: books, Charles Rammelkamp, poetry • 0 Comments

Poetry review – THE LIGHT ON SIFNOS: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a collection by Barbara Quick which travels through both time and space

Blaise

by Alan Price • authors, books, year 2022 • Tags: Alan Price, authors, books •

Blaise Cendrars, The Invention of Life – Eric Robertson. Review by Alan Price. “He repeatedly expressed impatience at the demands of being a writer, preferring life spent outdoors, travelling or in the company of others to the solitary confinement of the writing desk.  Cendrars was widely photographed, most famously by Robert Doisneau, but never at a writing desk.”
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by Barbara Lewis • music, opera, theatre • Tags: Barbara Lewis, music, opera, theatre •

The Excursions of Mr Broucek. Review by Barbara Lewis. The Excursions of Mr Broucek is an opera like no other – or as Wasfi Kani, the founder and power behind the bold, brave and never daunted Grange Park Opera, puts it: “Cosi fan Tutti it isn’t.”

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by Barbara Lewis • art, books, drawing, exhibitions, painting, year 2022 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, books, drawing, painting •

London Now and The Art of Literature. Review by Barbara Lewis. Leonardo da Vinci, creator of Salvator Mundi, the most expensive painting sold yet, said: “painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen”. Seller of the Salvator Mundi in 2017, Christie’s, which is cultivating its image as so much more than a place where very rich people spend millions, has taken his words as part of the inspiration for an exhibition open free to the public that showcases teasingly the latest lots next to rarely seen, privately-held works that are not for sale.

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by Alan Price • film, year 2022 • Tags: Alan Price, film •

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Complete Series. Review by Alan Price. Hitchcock said he had always wanted to work in the short story.  ‘The small simple tale of a single idea building to a turn, a twist at the end.  A little shocker.  The story that’s lost when stretched to the length of a movie.’

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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, religion, year 2022 • Tags: books, P W Bridgman, poetry, religion • 0 Comments

Poetry review – REQUIEM: P.W. Bridgman takes an in-depth look at Síofra McSherry’s long poem which faces loss and death

Nightmare Alley and The Razor’s Edge. Review by Alan Price.

by Alan Price • film, year 2022 • Tags: Alan Price, film •

Nightmare Alley and The Razor’s Edge. Signal One Blu Rays 2022. Review by Alan Price. Nightmare was violently against the grain and a box office flop. And Razor resolutely conventional yet questioning societal norms was a huge hit.  Both are the film children of Edmund Goulding who on the evidence of these films and others (The Old Maid and Dark Victory) was a fine director. 

SUNFLOWERS

by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • poetry, year 2022 • Tags: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry • 0 Comments

* The Summer 2022 issue of London Grip New Poetry features: *Charlotte Gann *Sally Festing *Pam Job *Mary Mulholland *Neil Leadbeater *Stephen Claughton *Brian Docherty *Mary Franklin *John Grey *Jane Simpson *Bob Cooper *Phil Connolly *Paul Stephenson *Elizabeth Smither *Gareth Writer-Davies *Stuart Henson *Rosemary Norman *Alison Campbell *Rod Whitworth *Stuart Handysides *Joan Michelson *Arthur Russell […]

POPA

by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2022 • Tags: books, poetry, Rosie Johnston • 0 Comments

Poetry review – DEAR LIFE: Rosie Johnston peruses a prize-winning pamphlet by Maya C Popa

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by Alan Price • film, year 2022 • Tags: Alan Price, film •

The Lighthouse (2006). Review by Alan Price. The opening images of The Lighthouse (2006) set the scene for the film’s reoccurring visual motifs.  Villagers, soon to be refugees, dancing and singing on a railway track.  A badly burnt antiquarian book.  The sleeping face, filmed on a train, of its female protagonist.

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by Alan Price • film, year 2022 • Tags: Alan Price, film •

The Devil’s Trap – Blu Ray (Second Run). Review by Alan Price. The Devil’s Trap 1961) was directed by Frantisek Vlacil and is considered the first part of a loose trilogy of historical films that includes Marketa Lazarova (1967) and The Valley of the Bees (1967).  All three films display an arresting black and white imagery that recalls Sergei Eisenstein – The Devil’s Trap’s pastoral lyricism evoking The General Line.

LIDDY

by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, year 2022 • Tags: books, history, poetry, Tim Cunningham • 0 Comments

Poetry review – ARIAS OF CONSOLATION: Tim Cunningham is captivated by John Liddy’s hymn to Limerick and its history

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