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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, film, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, film, Pam Thompson, poetry • 3 Comments

Pam Thompson finds that Charlotte Gann’s first full collection succeeds in its aim of unsettling the reader.

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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, poetry, Richie McCaffery • 0 Comments

Richie McCaffery takes the opportunity to extend his appreciation of Richard Kell’s poetry.

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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, music, poetry, politics, travel, year 2017 • Tags: books, history, John Lucas, music, poetry, politics, travel • 0 Comments

John Lucas finds multiple reasons to recommend this memoir by Gail Holst-Warhaft which is studded through with her own accomplished poetry and also gives a shrewdly observant account of post-war Greek history

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by Barbara Lewis • art, books, year 2017 • Tags: art, art history, Barbara Lewis, books, painting •

The cliché is that first novels are always autobiographical. Dutch writer Jeroen Blokhuis instead hides behind the biographical in his verbal portrait of one of the greatest painters his nation has produced.

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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • poetry, year 2017 • Tags: books, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, poetry • 0 Comments

* This issue of London Grip features new poems by: *Phil Kirby *Tracey Peterson *Abegail Morley *Natalie Crick *Geoffrey Winch *S W James * Sue Rose *Tom Phillips *Mark Totterdell *Tristan Moss *Thomas Ovans * Gareth Culshaw *Patri Wright * Elizabeth Smither * Alice Major * Colin Crewdson *Mary Franklin * Jack Little * Stuart […]

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by Jane McChrystal • authors, books, year 2017 • Tags: authors, books, Jane McChrystal •

I usually find middle-brow fiction quite consoling. So, I turned to my bookshelves in search of something not too literary in the hope of distraction from these troubled times. Colin, a supernatural tale, published in two parts by E.F. Benson in 1923, seemed to fit the bill.

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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, poetry, Ruth Valentine • 0 Comments

Ruth Valentine admires the subtlety of Jane Draycott’s poetic effects.

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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, Emma Lee, poetry • 0 Comments

Emma Lee wonders whether the poems in Clare Brant’s new collection do full justice to the ideas she wants to explore

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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, D A Prince, poetry • 0 Comments

D A Prince reviews a debut collection by Julie Hogg in which the poems have potential for performance as well as being successful on the page.

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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • art, books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: art, books, Brian Docherty, poetry • 0 Comments

Playing with ‘The Rules’: Brian Docherty considers an anthology whose poems could be viewed as case studies in ekphrasis – but also as much more than that.

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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, history, James Roderick Burns, poetry • 0 Comments

James Roderick Burns notes that Michael Crowley has taken some risks in order to negotiate a way through conflicting themes and historical viewpoints in his new collection

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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2017 • Tags: books, Kate Bingham, poetry • 0 Comments

Kate Bingham praises Joan Michelson’s eye for the details of life in a retirement home.

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