The Museum Carlo Bilotti is located in the elegant edifice of the Orangery in the park of Villa Borghese. It is one of the many and interesting museums of the Municipality of Rome scattered around the capital, and is free of charge.
The Russian architect Berthold Lubetkin once declared “Nothing is too Good for Ordinary People”* and as a founder of the radical Tecton group he designed municipal housing which combined the creation of healthy spaces, where people could live healthy lives, with the expression of his modernist aesthetic.
D A Prince is captivated by the craft & originality evident in Philip Hancock’s language and themes
An enthralling survey of ancient myths is the central idea of Ovid’s exhibition at Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome.
Richie McCaffery discovers that D M Black’s ‘light verse’ can in fact go very deep
Richie McCaffery admires a remarkable hybrid of journal and autobiography by M R Peacocke
Carla Scarano reviews a lively new collection by Ray Pool
Graham Hardie considers his response to some frank and personal content in Sarah Fletcher’s poems
John Lucas reviews two unusual recent collections by Gail Holst-Warhaft and John Woods
Thomas Ovans picks his way through the varied themes in a debut collection by Pauline Sewards
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 0 • Tags: books, poetry, Thomas Ovans