THE HOUSE WITH THREE EYES: John Lucas encounters a page-turner in John Harding’s atmospheric novel about mysterious events in Venice
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by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, travel, year 2020 • Tags: books, Brian Docherty, poetry, travel • 1 Comment
Poetry review – A CITY WAKING UP: Brian Docherty detects the voice of a woke woman in Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s new collection
by Barbara Lewis • music, opera, travel, year 2020 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, music, opera, travel •
Grange Park Opera Interim Season. Simon Keenlyside: An Autumn Walk in Wales (available online). Review by Barbara Lewis: Context is all, says Simon Keenlyside, as for the second time this year he delivers a musical tour of his own personal context – the woods around his Welsh home.
by Stephanie Sears • architecture, art, history, society, travel, year 2020 • Tags: architecture, art, history, society, Stephanie Sears, travel •
Post-Virus Venice: More than looks. Venice is, to a majority of us, one of humanity’s most seductive achievements.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, travel, writing, year 2020 • Tags: books, Norbert Hirschhorn, poetry, travel, writing • 0 Comments
Poetry review – NO FAR SHORE: Norbert Hirschhorn enjoys Anne-Marie Fyfe’s travel memoir that weaves a course between prose and poetry
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, poetry reviews, travel, year 2020 • Tags: books, Emma Storr, poetry, travel • 1 Comment
Poetry review – REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES: Emma Storr reviews a collection by Patrick Lodge which features vivid and dramatic poems about the explorations of Captain Cook
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, history, poetry reviews, travel, year 2020 • Tags: books, history, poetry, Stuart Henson, travel • 0 Comments
Poetry Review – Jim Neat: Stuart Henson appreciates the challenges of constructing fact-based poetry such as Mary J Oliver’s biography of her father
by Barbara Lewis • history, travel, year 2020 • Tags: Barbara Lewis, history, travel •
Tomar and the Knights Templar, Portugal. Under vows of holiness, poverty and chivalry, the Order of the Knights Templar, founded around 1120 to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land, achieved much else besides.
by Carla Scarano • society, travel, year 2019 • Tags: Carla Scarano, society, travel •
During my last week in Calgary I still had to do some shopping, visit the Glenbow museum, the Zoo and Lougheed house, a villa belonging to a rich Métis family.
by Carla Scarano • society, travel, year 2019 • Tags: Carla Scarano, society, travel •
I visited two places out of Calgary: Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump and Banff, thanks to my friend Pam who drove me there and toured me around.
by Carla Scarano • society, travel, year 2019 • Tags: Carla Scarano, society, travel •
On 1st July, Canada Day, I was up and ready since early morning wearing a red T-shirt and red cowboy hat.
by Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • added recently on London Grip, books, poetry reviews, travel, year 2021 • Tags: Alwyn Marriage, books, poetry, travel • 0 Comments
Poetry review – A POST CARD TO: Alwyn Marriage considers an unusual book by John Greening and Stuart Henson – and advises us not to judge it by its cover!