Although Jon Bloomfield intended “Our City” for a general audience, I think some of our elected representatives could learn a lot from it.
Stuart Henson reviews a new novel by John Lucas which, intriguingly, hinges on some lines from a poem…
Emma Lee picks her way through a narrative sequence by Math Jones about untangling life’s complexities
The ideal venue of the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art in via Francesco Crispi in Rome displays a vast range of pictures and sculptures from the Capitoline collections retracing the interpretation and development of the female form and her artistic personality from the end of the nineteenth century until today.
Peter Ualrig Kennedy recommends an epic and heartbreaking poem, beautifully translated from the Dutch of Guus Luijters
Leah Fritz offers a very personal response to a final compilation of writings by Günter Grass
The mesmerising Casina delle Civette (House of the Owls) hosts an intriguing exhibition of masks by Nicola Toce inspired by the Carnival traditions of Basilicata, a region in Southern Italy.
We’ve all seen it a hundred times, identified with it and even messaged using an emoticon version of Edvard Munch’s skull-like face, clutched by hands raised in horror in a distorted, nightmarish world.
If Brexit is the result of a backward-looking nostalgia, the Swinging London of the Chelsea Set was the opposite: it marked a determination to move on from the devastation and austerity left by World War II.
David Cooke commends the ability of Iraqi poet Fawzi Karim both to reflect and to transcend his own circumstances
Kate Noakes relishes a short sequence by Maitreyabandhu which combines nature writing and memoir
Norbert Hirschhorn is seriously impressed by Mona Arshi’s new collection
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2019 • Tags: books, Norbert Hirschhorn, poetry