Sarah Lawson finds seriousness and humour, the personal and the fanciful in this recent and retrospective selection of Shanta Acharya’s poetry
Sarah Lawson
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, year 2017 • Tags: books, history, Sarah Lawson • 0 Comments
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
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • authors, books, year 2016 • Tags: authors, books, Sarah Lawson • 0 Comments
Sarah Lawson  plaintively asks the question: Why Don’t People Read Benito Cereno When I Tell Them To?
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2016 • Tags: books, poetry, Sarah Lawson • 0 Comments
Sarah Lawson observes that reading Michel Faber’s collection about grief and death can expand our capacity for empathy
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, year 2018 • Tags: books, poetry, Sarah Lawson • 0 Comments
Sarah Lawson draws attention to a posthumously published collection in which Sarah Getty’s intelligence and wit still live on