Poetry review – REMEMBERING BLUE: Alex Josephy follows Colin Bell’s poetic charting of his recovery from major illness
Poetry review – POPULAR LONGING: Charles Rammelkamp seeks out the underlying attitude which drives Natalie Shapero’s teasingly surreal poetry
Poetry review – POSTCOLONIAL LOVE POEM: Carla Scarano D’Antonio engages with Natalie Diaz’s powerful poetry which voices an Indigenous people’s resistance to oppression
Poetry review – LARKSONG STATIC: Stephen Claughton takes a journey through a selection of Martin Malone’s poems
Poetry review –THE MINISTRY OF FLOWERS: Emma Storr is pleased to have encountered this new collection by Andrea Witzke Slot
Poetry review – WHEN I THINK OF MY BODY AS A HORSE: Pat Edwards is moved by the tenderness and honesty of Wendy Pratt’s poetry.
WE COME FROM THE SUN: Sue Wallace-Shaddad leads us through an innovative album of poetry, music and sound compiled by Cerys Matthews
L’Heure Espagnole, Grange Park Opera – an hour of escape into Maurice Ravel’s gloriously light opera bouffe that allows a woman to juggle three lovers with impunity.
Revolution of the Word: Brian Docherty reviews new translations of Anna Gréki’s poetry of social and political engagement
Poetry review – WILD PERSISTENCE – Kate Noakes enjoys the latest collection by Katrina Naomi
Book review – LOSER: Thomas Ovans examines John Fuller’s well-observed story of 21st century angst.
The Florentines: From Dante to Galileo. By Paul Strathern, Published April 1, Atlantic Books. Review by Barbara Lewis.
By Barbara Lewis • art, books, history, society, year 2021 • Tags: art, Barbara Lewis, books, history, society