Poetry review – SKAIL: Colin Pink feels the weight of Richie McCaffery’s perceptive but downbeat collection
Poetry review – SAFE GROUND: Jennifer Johnson accompanies Rosie Johnston through some poetic reflections on past experiences
Poetry review – THE LEFT-HANDED SNIPER: John Forth commends Alan Dixon’s ability to be outrageously funny while never losing sight of the possible presence of tragedy
Poetry review – FOXGLOVEWISE: Colin Pink admires the technical expertise behind Ange Mlinko’s imaginative and evocative poems
Poetry review – CONSTRUCTING A WITCH: Nick Cooke is impressed by Helen Ivory’s energetic and zealously defiant poems
THE MOON LOOKS ON THEM ALL: Angela Topping browses a collection of essays by John Lucas on the subject of friends and friendship
Poetry review – OKAPI: Rosie Johnston considers Fiona Moore’s book-length poem of eloquent reflection on disorienting personal experience
Poetry review – STAR: Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch reviews a collection of Christmas poems by Angela Graham
Poetry review – COLLECTED POEMS: Edmund Prestwich is grateful for this full and eminently readable record of Fleur Adcock’s poetic creativity
Poetry review – OLD MEN: Paul McDonald finds plenty of verve and imagination as well as mature reflection in the latest collection by Peter Daniels
THE BODY IN THE LIBRARY: John Lucas reflects on variousness in this personal memoir by Graham Caveney
A Grain of Sand. Review by Barbara Lewis. We tell stories when reality becomes unbearable. We may also tell them to remember those who have not lived to tell the tale. Both statements pertain to the one-woman show created by Elias Matar that deftly combines fabulous Palestinian myths with the horrors experienced as children live and die through war in Gaza.
By Barbara Lewis • plays, theatre, year 2026 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, plays, theatre