Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War. Review by Barbara Lewis.
Domesday Book, William the Conqueror’s 1085 survey of his recently-won kingdom, merits an exhibition in its own right.
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London Grip Poetry Review – Hugo Williams
Hugo Williams skilfully uses poetry to convey the experience of recovery from prolonged illness
London Grip Poetry Review – Jennifer Johnson
Jennifer Johnson gives an object lesson in making poetry out of difficult and painful situations
The Hotel of Dreams
Thomas Ovans browses a short-story collection by John Lucas
London Grip Poetry Review – Patrick Osada
Carla Scarano admires the way that Patrick Osada’s poems play with light and shadow
London Grip Poetry Review – Patricia McCarthy
Nick Cooke examines an ambitious biographical poem-sequence by Patricia McCarthy
London Grip Poetry Review – Richie McCaffery
Stuart Henson enjoys Richie McCaffery’s conversational and sharp-witted poetry – and his knack of crafting a good punch-line.
London Grip Poetry Review – Mark Mansfield
Angela Topping admires Mark Mansfield’s carefully controlled and crafted poems for their plain speaking
In Transit : Poems of Travel
Merryn Williams loves anthologies and finds this collection of travel poems to be a good and inspiring example
London Grip Poetry Review – Jessica Mookherjee
Jessica Mookherjee’s collection Flood contains poems so fiercely inventive that “Riptide” might even be a fitting title observes Brian Docherty
London Grip Poetry Review – James Roderick Burns
Thomas Ovans takes a close look at a collection of haiku by James Roderick Burns
London Grip Poetry Review – Nigel Pantling
Thomas Ovans enjoys Nigel Pantling’s chapbook which makes army life an unexpected source of poetry