Lookout: poetry from Aldeburgh Beach
Emma Lee reviews a handsome anthology of poems inspired by the South Lookout on Aldeburgh Beach
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Spectrum Art Prize – Helping to articulate the unique conditions associated with autism.
We are delighted to announce Spectrum’s competition, The Spectrum Art Prize. This is a new national award which celebrates the exciting work produced by artists on the autistic spectrum.
Too Brave to Dream
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs dips into a collection of ‘lost’ ekphrastic poems by R S Thomas
City Lights. Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Modern Art (Mima), Brussels. Review by Barbara Lewis.
From stylised art nouveau temptresses to giant Tintin cartoons, Brussels has an established tradition of putting art on the outside of its buildings as well as inside. The capital’s newest gallery in a former brewery in Molenbeek – the neighbourhood notorious as a breeding ground of the Paris and Brussels terror attacks – captures that spirit.
Hieronymous Bosch – Visions of Genius, North Brabant Museum, Den Bosch, the Netherlands.
As if an extraordinary imagination for fantastic, unsettling monsters and a genius ahead of his time for sensitive, naturalistic depictions of ordinary people weren’t enough, Hieronymous Bosch also had a modern knack for successful branding.
Over the Line
An introduction to poetry comics edited by Chrissy Williams & Tom Humberstone turns out to be something of a revelation for Richie McCaffery
London Grip Poetry Review – Meade & Robertson
Fiona Sinclair explores a picture & poem collaboration by Gordon Meade & Douglas Robertson
London Grip Poetry Review – Smith
John Snelling finds an all too common “either/or” approach is replaced by a pleasingly inclusive “and/and” viewpoint throughout a kaleidoscopic collection by Marcus Smith
London Grip Poetry Review – Henson
D A Prince finds Stuart Henson’s “Feast of Fools” hard to classify but easy to enjoy
Paintings & Poems – Howard Fritz & Michael Bartholomew-Biggs
Poems written in response to atmospheric paintings by the American artist Howard Fritz whose work is now on show at the Torriano Meeting House
London Grip Poetry Review – Wicks & Clayman
Caroline Maldonado finds there are many possible ways of reading this chapbook of poems by Susan Wicks with artwork by Elizabeth Clayman
Wordstrokes: The Poetry of Art
Playing with ‘The Rules’: Brian Docherty considers an anthology whose poems could be viewed as case studies in ekphrasis – but also as much more than that.