London Grip Poetry Review – Acharya
Sarah Lawson finds seriousness and humour, the personal and the fanciful in this recent and retrospective selection of Shanta Acharya’s poetry
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Anything Can Happen
A New Life for the Riding-Crop-Handle Maker; Sarah Lawson reminds us of a popular account of an immigrant’s experience which has – perhaps undeservedly – fallen out of the public eye
Does anybody know Benito Cereno?
Sarah Lawson plaintively asks the question: Why Don’t People Read Benito Cereno When I Tell Them To?
London Grip Poetry Review – Faber
Sarah Lawson observes that reading Michel Faber’s collection about grief and death can expand our capacity for empathy
London Grip Poetry Review – Getty
Sarah Lawson draws attention to a posthumously published collection in which Sarah Getty’s intelligence and wit still live on