Medea is perhaps the most potent myth for the #MeToo generations. First-performed in 431 BC, Euripides’ drama has had countless interpreters.
Three for the price of one: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs browses a compilation of poetry by Pamela Johnson, Jennifer Grigg & Jane Kirwan
Two hundred unique artistic creations by Christian Dior and his successors are featured at the V&A exhibition.
For many of us stuck here in the grey fastness of a London winter, a visit to the 2019 Pierre Bonnard exhibition has brought some welcome relief.
P W Bridgman confesses himself pleasantly surprised by an unorthodox combination of poetry collection and murder mystery: he promises however that his review contains no spoilers.
Five hundred years ago, Peckham was green and pleasant. By the 1980s and 1990s, when two of its most famous fictional characters Del Boy and Rodney Trotter were plying their dodgy wares, even the pigeons wanted to be elsewhere, or so Rodney tells us.
* This issue of London Grip New Poetry features: * Angela Kirby *Kerrin P Sharpe *Jim C Wilson *Miki Byrne *Lisa Reily *Nancy Mattson * Joan Byrne *Rosemary Norman *M E Muir *Melanie Branton * Stuart Pickford *Amelia Hickman *Mark Carson *Wendy Klein *D S Maolalai *Jakky Bankong-Obi *Antony Johae *Tristan Moss * Norbert Hirschhorn […]
Nick Cooke follows Rachael Clyne on a poetic guided tour of her family relationships
Thomas Ovans explores the often bizarre worlds conjured up by P W Bridgman’s intriguing poetry
Isabelle Kenyon reviews a collection by Michelle Diaz which combines painful honesty with a sense of hopefulness
The over-arching title of this eight-volume novel brings to mind the Rougon-Macquart. The comparison is apposite because while Zola structures his series around his faith in biological determinism, Dent’s novel dismisses it as a delusion.
Emma Storr finds much promise in a debut pamphlet by Charlotte Eichler
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 1 • Tags: books, Emma Storr, poetry