Poetry review – MATERNAL IMPRESSION: Pat Edwards is impressed by a thought-provoking new pamphlet from Cheryl Moskowitz
The Camera Is Ours – BFI dvd set 2022. Review by Alan Price. The Camera is Ours celebrates the women employed by an earlier, much more conservative, patriarchal and patronising film industry than the present.
Poetry Review – ALL ABOUT OUR MOTHERS: Sue Wallace-Shaddad admires a powerful collaboration by Vasiliki Albedo, Mary Mulholland and Simon Maddrell
HOPE IS A GIRL BORN IN A KYIV BUNKER – a personal response by Shanta Acharya to the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Hungarian Masters: (Second Run Blu Ray) 2022. Review by Alan Price. Second Run, who has a specialist interest in East European cinema, has just issued a box set containing three films by Istvan Gaal, Zoltan Fabri and Miklos Jansco.
Poetry review – WHATEVER ELSE YOU MIGHT SAY: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs savours one more collection from the late Paul McLoughlin
Poetry review – WE HAVE TO LEAVE THE EARTH: Julie Hogg admires a powerful new collection by Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Poetry review – THE DASH BETWEEN US: Charles Rammelkamp peruses Cathy Porter’s poems which try to pin down time that is so easily lost or wasted
* The Spring 2022 issue of London Grip New Poetry features: *Tim Suermondt *Mark J. Mitchell *Rustin Larson *Stuart Pickford *Emma Lee *Alan Cohen *John Grey *Charlotte Gann *Hannah Linden *Richard Manly Heiman * Janet Hatherley *Teoti Jardine *Julia Duke *Jim C Wilson *Robin Houghton *Ken Anderson *Gale Acuff *Kerrin P Sharpe *Alicia Stubbersfield *John […]
Poetry review – FIVE SCENES FROM A FAILED REVOLUTION: Edmund Prestwich is moved by Ashur Etwebi’s vivid glimpses of the continuing crisis in Libya
Truth to Power Café. Review by Barbara Lewis. Speaking Truth to Power has come to mean “saying something to those in a position of trust or authority who don’t want to hear it,” Jeremy Goldstein, the MC of the Truth to Power Café, tells us. It’s a non-violent means of conflict resolution whose origins lie in the anti-war movement.
Poetry review – DISAPPEARANCES: Pam Thompson reviews a dark and magical first collection by Kathleen Bell
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