La Forza del Destino was first performed in 1862. Not satisfied, Verdi carried on revising it for years, adding in 1869 the famous sinfonia overture that announces so many of the work’s overwhelming musical themes.
Human relationships boil down to trust and betrayal; power and powerlessness. It’s the story of Hollywood and Harvey Weinstein and it’s the gruelling plot of Tosca.
Paul McLoughlin is impressed by the breadth of subject matter from which Alan Dixon can make poetry
Danielle Hope samples some double delights from Shoestring Press: featuring football – Paul McLoughin – and small creatures – Nadine Brummer
Richie McCaffery examines a new anthology of Palestinian poetry, edited by Naomi Foyle, and finds it eye-opening
South Africa’s oldest working harbour in Cape Town has a new addition. Since September, 2017, its recently-developed Silo District has been home to the Zeitz Museum of Contemporay Art Africa, MOCAA for short, a giant silo of post 2000 art by the artists of Africa and its disapora, assembled by German entrepreneur Jochen Zeitz.
Carla Scarano finds Caroline Price’s poetry to be flowing and enigmatic
Thomas Ovans discovers that poetry and medicine can mix rather well in this handsome anthology from Hippocrates Press
Roger Caldwell gives a thoughtful appraisal of a carefully chosen selection of Michael Schmidt’s poetry
Sarah Lawson draws attention to a posthumously published collection in which Sarah Getty’s intelligence and wit still live on
John Forth finds that John Levett’s new collection raises a number of questions
James Roderick Burns finds that Angela Topping’s poetry exercises a powerful force upon the reader
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2018 0 • Tags: books, James Roderick Burns, poetry