London Grip Poetry Review – Helen Dunmore
D A Prince is intrigued by the presentation but delighted by the substance of this substantial retrospective collection of Helen Dunmore’s poetry
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Of All That Ends
Leah Fritz offers a very personal response to a final compilation of writings by Günter Grass
Pleading at the Bar of Truth
John Lucas adds some personal reminiscence to his review of Will Daunt‘s compilation of writings by Eddie Wainwright
Your Culture is not mine…or is it? America’s tense relationship with high culture. By Stephanie V Sears
As a half French, half American individual, I give in to a pastime common to double nationals, which consists of regularly comparing both countries of origin.
Charles Dickens Museum. Review by Barbara Lewis.
The museum in Doughty Street, London, has a temporary exhibition to revisit the established view that Dickens had no truck with science, presenting the discipline not so surprisingly as an extension of his concern with social justice and reform rather than abstract theory.
London Grip Poetry Review – Neil Curry
Stuart Henson listens in to Neil Curry’s artful channeling of Virginia Woolf
London Grip Poetry Review – Croft
Merryn Williams is doubly impressed – both by Andy Croft’s finely crafted poetry and by its subject, the unfairly neglected writer and activist, Randall Swingler
Robert Desnos: Surrealist, Lover, Resistant
Roger Caldwell considers an impressively substantial volume of poems by Robert Desnos with translations by Timothy Adès
Hal Cazalet: Play on Words, Crazy Coqs, Zedel, London. Review by Barbara Lewis.
To most Britons, P.G. Wodehouse is known as the creator of quaint, comic novels starring the blundering upper class twit Bertie Wooster and his astute valet Jeeves. He also contributed lyrics and stories to a wealth of musicals and his step great grandson, the opera singer Hal Cazalet, who as a child slept in a room beneath the Wodehouse archive, tells us he only got to know P.G. Wodehouse’s prose through the song lyrics.
“Gone With The Wind” Revisited
Many years after first reading the classic 1930s novel, Sarah Lawson decided to open the book again and write down her second impressions: Emma Lee considers that this re-appraisal was well worthwhile.
Perspectives on Poetry: Mahon, Stevenson & Stern
Perspectives on Poetry: John Lucas examines three recent studies exploring the craft and ideas of three eminent poets .
“Upon that memorable Scene”
Neil Curry indulges in a brief speculation on a recent parallel to a historical moment in the 17th century