Poetry review – THE MESSENGER HOUSE: Kate Ashton is intrigued by Janet Sutherland’s poetic correspondence between travellers more than a century apart
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Poetry review – VELVEL’S VIOLIN: Wendy Klein reviews a collection by Jacqueline Saphra whose themes have acquired even more depth and significance in light of post-publication events
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Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties. Review by Alan Price. Putting trailer hyperbole to one side, Hirsch has written one of the best, most engaging and detailed accounts of this wonderful, probably best, period in American cinema.
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Poetry review – CROMWELL’S HEAD: David Rudd-Mitchell reviews Jim Greenhalf’s poetic reflections on British history and its lessons for the present
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Poetry review – ACCESSIONING: Emma Storr considers Charlotte Wetton’s poems on the importance of remembering
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Poetry review – WHO KILLED MARTA UGARTE?: Charles Rammelkamp considers a graphic account of the horrors of the Pinochet regime as rendered into poetry by Jeanne-Marie Osterman
Poetry review – BETWEEN CHANCE AND MERCY: Kimberly K. Williams reviews an uncompromising state-of-the-nation collection by James E. Cherry
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