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 – PATIENT WATCHING: Diana Cant listens, watches and waits as Judith Wozniak introduces her to the compassionate working life of a general practitioner
Poetry review – VITAL CAPACITY: Kate Noakes listens to the breathing that runs through Fiona Larkin’s poems
The Duke. Review by Graham Buchan. In The Duke the director Roger Michell establishes exactly the right tone from the outset and maintains it steadily right up to the film’s very satisfying conclusion.
Poetry Review – SMUDGE: Colin Pink admires the interweaving of multiple themes in a new collection by Dominic James
Poetry review – THE KIDS: Carla Scarano is moved by Hannah Lowe’s poems about teaching young people
Alwyn Marriage enjoys the richness and complexity in the Collected Poems of Rowan Williams
WRECKS AND RUINS: Charles Rammelkamp reviews a complex new novel by Eric D. Goodman
Poetry review – NAMING OF THE BONES: Stuart Henson engages with the deeply spiritual poetry of John F Deane
Poetry review – THE HOUSE OF EVERYTHING: James Roderick Burns walks through the John Soane museum guided by Robert Seatter’s poetry
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • poetry, year 2022 • Tags: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry • 0 Comments
* 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 […]