Poetry review – THE TASTE OF STEEL / THE SMELL OF SNOW: Edmund Prestwich explores a double volume of poems by Danish poet Pia Tafdrup (translated by David McDuff)
Poetry review – THE ATTITUDES: Alex Josephy finds Katie Griffiths’ ambitious collection encompasses both playfulness and tenderness
Poetry review – THE SYMMETRY OF FOLKLORE: Emma Storr welcomes a debut collection by Donna Irving
Poetry review – THE LAST DINOSAUR IN DONCASTER: James Roderick Burns finds gritty lyricism in a promising first collection by Sarah Wimbush
Paula Rego, Tate Britain. Review by Carla Scarano. The retrospective comprehensive exhibition of Paula Rego’s work spans sixty years of her career and shows her multimedia approach as well as her multi-faceted view and political commitment.
Poetry review – AUSCULTATION : Kate Ashton is moved by the honest emotions revealed in Ilse Pedler’s poetry
Poetry review – BROOKSONG & SHADOWS: Alwyn Marriage enjoys the richness of language in Lynne Wycherley’s latest collection
Poetry review – KARAOKE KING: Kate Ashton admires the range and complexity of Dai George’s new collection
Poetry review – THE GIDDINGS: Emma Storr reflects on a compact but dense historical sequence by John Greening
Mustard is the only English thing in the rural Irish home of the young protagonist, named as E, of writer-performer Eva O’Connor’s one-woman show. Review by Barbara Lewis.
Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, Victoria and Albert Museum. Review by Carla Scarano. .”..a marvellous but unsettling journey through the origin of Alice’s stories and their adaptations and reinventions in films, art, music, fashion, photography and design.”
Poetry review – MARPLES MUST GO!: Carla Scarano D’Antonio appreciates Greg Freeman’s deft mixing of the personal and the political
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 1 • Tags: books, Carla Scarano, poetry