Psychoanalytic psychotherapist Juliet Rosenfeld published her meditation, as her publicist so aptly describes it, on her own journey from an intellectual understanding to a deep, personal grasp of Freud’s distinction between harrowing grief and the gentler sorrow of mourning in February – when today’s equivalent of Spanish flu had begun to throw wives, husbands, children, lovers across the globe into states of emotion they may never fully process.
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Richard Caldwell surveys Andrew Keanie’s new study of Thomas De Quincey
Merryn Williams reviews Matthew Barton’s new translation of Rilke’s Duino Elegies
Poetry review – How Time is in Fields: Wendy Klein commends Jean Atkin for making authentic poetry out of authentic country lore
Poetry review – Gifts Without Wrapping: Stuart Henson is impressed by Michal Choinski‘s short collection of poems about human bodies and their interactions
Brontë’s angry classic, which has for decades fired up rebellious, ambitious girls and women, has found new resonance in our self-isolating times as the National Theatre at Home allows another frustrated generation to ponder its lot.
Poetry Review – Each Other: Mat Riches thinks Clare Best’s poems have some very convincing things to say about relationships
Poetry review – Footnotes to Water: Alex Josephy enjoys the river theme running through Zoë Skoulding’s latest collection
Poetry Review – How Death Came into the World: Isabelle Kenyon explores the mysterious world created in Nancy Charley’s latest collection
Poetry review – The Significance of a Dress: Pat Edwards is impressed by Emma Lee’s use of clothing as a metaphor for deeper human issues
Rachel Donohue’s ambitious young journalist protagonist, driven by a hunger to get to the bottom of a 25-year-old mystery, observes from the sidelines of a meeting of editorial egos: “The stories we told were ancient. But we acted like they were new.”
Virgin & Child: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is intrigued by a new novel by Maggie Hamand in which a theological conundrum leads to tension – and ultimately violence – within the Vatican
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, politics, psychology, religion, year 2020 • Tags: books, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, politics, psychology, religion