Poetry Review – THE EMMA PRESS ANTHOLOGY OF ILLNESS: Angela Topping gives a sense of the variety in this collection of poems dealing frankly with the experience of being sick or injured.
If you can embrace it, lockdown’s shift from the real to the virtual is a liberation that makes anything possible.
Poetry review – COOKING WITH MARILYN: Emma Lee enjoys Angela Readman’s poetic portrait of a film star
Poetry review – A CITY WAKING UP: Brian Docherty detects the voice of a woke woman in Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s new collection
Grange Park Opera Interim Season. Simon Keenlyside: An Autumn Walk in Wales (available online). Review by Barbara Lewis: Context is all, says Simon Keenlyside, as for the second time this year he delivers a musical tour of his own personal context – the woods around his Welsh home.
Poetry review – HOW THE HELL ARE YOU: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs appreciates the highly individual worldview revealed in Glyn Maxwell’s new collection
Poetry review – DRESSING FOR THE AFTERLIFE: Neil Fulwood finds that Maria Taylor’s energetic collection covers a lot of ground
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Before lockdown, Bewley’s Café Theatre in the bustling heart of Dublin was the place to grab a short lunch-time play, a bowl of soup – and maybe even chat up a stranger. For now, those days are gone, but Bewley’s has joined forces with online events company The Lock Inn to open the tiny venue to a potentially limitless audience.
Artemisia: A riveting exhibition at the National Gallery spanning Artemisia Gentileschi’s 45-year career displays her best artwork.
Poetry review – THE BLUE HOTEL: Charles Rammelkamp considers some episodes in the lives of famous people as imagined in poems by Alan Catlin
THE FIRE OF JOY: Edmund Prestwich looks at a very personal poetry compilation by Clive James
Poetry review: Merryn Williams looks at two new Shoestring collections from Clare Brant & Alexis Lykiard
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2020 • Tags: books, Merryn Williams, poetry