Poetry review – THE GIDDINGS: Emma Storr reflects on a compact but dense historical sequence by John Greening
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Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser, Victoria and Albert Museum. Review by Carla Scarano. .”..a marvellous but unsettling journey through the origin of Alice’s stories and their adaptations and reinventions in films, art, music, fashion, photography and design.”
Rachael Smart reviews a collection of essays gathered around the subject of trauma
Poetry review – TRAVEL BY HAIKU: Charles Rammelkamp commends Marshall Deerfield’s efforts to compress a travelogue into a haiku sequence
Poetry review – POEMS TO NIGHT: Roger Caldwell reviews a new translation by Will Stone of some of Rilke’s less well-know poems
Poetry review – AT RISK: Rennie Halstead admires the way that Diana Cant has made poetry from her insights gained as a child psychotherapist
Poetry Review – THE LONG HABIT OF LIVING: Stephen Claughton admires the undiminished creativity on display in M R Peacocke’s new collection
HOUSMAN’S NAME AND NATURE OF POETRY: Andrew Keanie considers Michael Cullup’s study of Housman’s Leslie Stephen Lecture.
Poetry review – FEVERFEW: Jonathan Squirrell finds much to enjoy in a new collection by Anna Saunders
Poetry review – TYPICITY: D Ferrara admires the variety of tones in Colin Pink’s second collection
Poetry review – RESTORATIONS: Pamela Johnson examines a many-layered collection by Rosalind Hudis
Poetry review – KARAOKE KING: Kate Ashton admires the range and complexity of Dai George’s new collection
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2021 • Tags: books, Kate Ashton, poetry