London Grip Poetry Review – Helen Mort
Pamela Johnson explores a small book in which the poems of Helen Mort respond to massive Arctic landscapes
travel
Musee Rambolitrain, Barbara Lewis
Rambouillet – known for its graceful chateau that is the summer seat of French presidents and the setting for international summits – also has appeal for those seeking a gentler life on the sidelines – or even in the sidings.
Coincidences, Galleria Riccardo Costantini Contemporary. Review by Barbara Lewis.
Stroll through the streets of Turin or look out from the city’s rattling trams and you’re confronted with wall after wall of windows framed by whatever architectural embellishments were fashionable at the time of construction, from the standard shutters of residential apartment blocks to ornate neo-classical gods and gargoyles on civic buildings.
London Grip Poetry Review – Eddershaw
Peter Ualrig Kennedy travels the world in the company of Margaret Eddershaw’s recent collection
The Living Thames Cruise, Sunday 27th August. By Jane McChrystal.
Londongrip’s readers are invited to take a cruise on the Thames Estuary on Sunday, 27th August. The cruise offers an unusual opportunity to get a closer look at some of the Estuary’s less accessible attractions: the Red Sands Forts, built to protect London during the Second World War; the sunken cargo ship, SS Richard Montgomery and the Thames Sailing barges racing in their annual match.
The Fall of Athens
John Lucas finds multiple reasons to recommend this memoir by Gail Holst-Warhaft which is studded through with her own accomplished poetry and also gives a shrewdly observant account of post-war Greek history
Republic Of Dogs/ Republic Of Birds
Rosie Johnston is glad to report on the rediscovery of a ‘missing’ work by Stephen Watts
Excursion to the Mill House, Bromley by Bow, by Jane McChrystal.
There’s no other way to say it – we were in a different world – one with a clock tower and two oast houses, paved with cobble stones.