* The Winter 2021 issue of London Grip New Poetry features: *Robert Cole *Ceinwen Haydon * Myra Schneider *Steve Komarnyckyj *Chrissy Banks *Merryn Williams *Norton Hodges *Martin Bennett *Julia Stothard *Rodney Wood * Tony Dawson *Tristan Moss *Rachel Carney *Ramona Herdman *J R Solonche *Teoti Jardine *David Flynn *Briege Duffaud *John Grey *Zack Rogow *David […]
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs
Poetry review – SERVICE CANCELLED: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs is impressed by Neil Fulwood’s novel approach to the lockdown poem
* The Autumn 2021 issue of London Grip New Poetry features: *Jim C Wilson *P W Bridgman * Sue Wallace-Shaddad *Kurt Luchs *Phil Dunkerley *Kevin Cahill *Mark Mansfield *Martin Bennett *Tim Kiely * Owen Gallagher * Sally Michaelson *Kathy Pimlott *Barry Smith *Gillie Robic * Jackson *Flourish Joshua *Robert Beveridge *Loukia Borrell *Robert Etty * […]
THE FAREWELLING OF A HOME: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs considers Jane Simpson’s newly-composed Christian ritual for marking a major life-change
* The Summer 2021 issue of London Grip New Poetry features *Angela Kirby *Ian C Smith *Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana * Denise Bundred *Deborah Tyler-Bennett *Pam Job *Tess Jolly *Ilse Pedler *Joan Michelson * Jacqueline Schaalje * Lisa Reily *Gordon Wood *Jennifer Rogers *Dino Mahoney *Kerrin P Sharpe *Judith Wozniak *Anne Ballard *Melanie Branton *Paul Stephenson *Mark […]
Poetry review – SONGS FOR A DAUGHTER: Peter Ualrig Kennedy has written a moving sequence about his learning disabled daughter which is highly personal yet keeps the reader engaged throughout
* The Spring 2021 issue of London Grip New Poetry features: * Stuart Henson * Stella Wulf: * Josh Ekroy * Fiona Sinclair * R M Aguilar * Neil Fulwood * David Flynn * Colin Pink * Kurt Luchs * Christopher Soden * Rabia Shaheen * Robert Cole * Mark Totterdell * Jan Hutchison * […]
Poetry review – IN THE LATENESS OF THE WORLD: Carolyn Forché’s dense and imaginative poems prompt Michael Bartholomew-Biggs to a spot of introspection
* The Winter 2020 issue of LONDON GRIP NEW POETRY features: * Kathryn de Leon * Steve Black * Chris Hardy * Stuart Handysides * Briege Duffaud * Frederick Pollack * Ian Heffernan * Brian Docherty * R G Jodah * Maggie Freeman * Elizabeth Smither * Jan-An Saab * Julia Duke * Jeni Curtis […]
Poetry review – HOW THE HELL ARE YOU: Michael Bartholomew-Biggs appreciates the highly individual worldview revealed in Glyn Maxwell’s new collection
Book review – THE PRISONER’S WIFE: this remarkable novel by Maggie Brookes is based on a true story and tells of an almost incredible deception successfully carried out during World War Two
P – Michael Bartholomew-Biggs reviews a classic dystopia by D Rudd-Mitchell in which the individual is faced with a seemingly all-powerful Party
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, fiction, society, year 2021 0 • Tags: books, fiction, Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, society