It was the second Sunday in January and people were emerging from the cocoon of the long holiday to take a walk along the Thames Path. The grey skies and a chill in the damp air seemed to signal the right conditions for me to head north from the Isle of Dogs and explore Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park.
Norbert Hirschhorn acknowledges the craft and potency of Vénus Khoury-Ghata’s poetry
In our society multi-tasking is often seen as a women’s skill but rather than it being a critique of Jill of All Trades, the thesis behind the book is to honour the fresh concept of Renaissance Women.
I expected this to be an exhibition focusing on the links between art and T.S Eliot. Journeys with ‘The Waste Land’s is however something more unique. It is an exhibition that focuses purely on this extraordinary poem with all its contexts, voices and virtuosity.
Alex Josephy finds Abegail Morley’s fascinating new collection builds to much more than the sum of its parts
D A Prince becomes fully engaged with John Fuller’s witty and ingenious use of form
Peter Ualrig Kennedy is full of admiration for the spare elegance of Gordon Meade’s poetic discourse on being faced with cancer.
Paul McLoughlin admires both the craft and the range of Alistair Elliot’s third collection from Shoestring Press
Emma Lee is pleased by the musical elements in a new collection by Reuben Woolley
Stuart Henson considers the elegance of two pamphlets by Martyn Crucefix.
Lanie Robertson’s fine one-woman play on Peggy Guggenheim is a feast for intelligent audiences wanting to celebrate Guggenheim’s extraordinary life.
Fiona Sinclair commends Michael Rosen’s use of poetry to make some telling political points
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, politics, year 2018 0 • Tags: books, Fiona Sinclair, poetry, politics