Review | Fragmented Dialogues – Art and Identity in 1980s Chile
Fragmented Dialogues: Mario Fonseca & Mauricio Valenzuela, Art & Identity in 1980s Chile is currently on display at the Austin Desmond Fine Art Gallery,...
Review | End of the Pier at the Park Theatre
Review | End of the Pier by Danny Robins
By Francis Beckett
Mike is a successful stand-up comic with his own television show. His father Bobby...
Interview with Selina Nwulu – Young Poet Laureate for London
Yesterday, Selina Nwulu was chosen from 6 young poets to be the new Young Poet Laureate for London. Supported by Foundation for FutureLondon and London's...
Faber & The Poetry Society Reading: Eric Berlin, Emily Berry...
Poetry was necessary on this year’s election night. As we sat in a beautiful, packed room in Bloomsbury House, Faber’s headquarters, surrounded by first...
Cockfosters by Helen Simpson
If you dare to enter the murky world of short story criticism, you are likely to find yourself swamped by metaphors—florid, emotive, and frequently...
Interview | Roubi L’Roubi | Saatchi Gallery | Forests and Spirits:...
An interview with Roubi L’Roubi, co-curator of Forests and Spirits: Figurative art from the Khartoum School, a new exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.
Fractals by Sudeep Sen | An Introduction by Fiona Sampson
Ahead of the launch of Sudeep Sen's Fractals, read a few words on Sudeep Sen's new collection by poet Fiona Sampson.
Sudeep Sen is a...
Pearl by Simon Armitage
Simon Armitage’s new translation of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl follows his energetic 2008 translation of the same anonymous poet’s Sir Gawain and the Green...
What Eliot Means to Me
To mark the fiftieth anniversary of T. S. Eliot's death, the great and the good of the literary world have rolled out tributes, readings,...
Poetry Prize | An interview with Andrew McMillan
Ahead of our Poetry Prize, which opens 1st May, we caught up with one of our two esteemed judges to get his perspective on...
Last Heron by Stella Davis
Last Heron
As the last heron goes, rooks
fall from the sky like old black rags
to carpet the new-laid field.
Six days now, six days and nights
without...
The Spoils at Trafalgar Studios
Alongside a fruitful film career, it may come as a surprise that Jesse Eisenberg has time to publish a book of short stories, contribute...
Interview | Jude Christian – Nanjing at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
We stopped by The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at The Globe to talk to Jude Christian about her play Nanjing.
Nanjing is part of The Globe's Refugee Week...
Review | 58th Venice Biennale
Venice, that city of dreams and the inspiration for artists and writers from Turner to Italo Calvino, sees its 58th art biennale. As thousands...
Poetry | A Series of Ekphrastic Poems on Eileen Agar’s Marine...
Suzannah V. Evans is a poet, editor, and critic. The following series of poems was inspired by a visit to the exhibition Virginia Woolf:...
At the Nursing Home by Leland James
—inside an old man vacant by the window
Hold me occasionally for the light is fading
and I can no longer see the hills that once
rose...
Review | Twenty Theatres to See Before You Die by Amber...
“You can take an empty space and call it a bare stage”, Amber Massie-Blomfield opens her book with this evocative statement and thus begins...
Review | Nocilla Lab | Agustín Fernández Mallo
Nocilla Lab, Agustín Fernández Mallo (Translated by Thomas Bunstead), Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2019, pp. 192, £12.99
"The fascination of humankind with beaches goes to the heart...
Hair by Sam McKnight at Somerset House
Follow lipstick red arrows pasted on the floor of Somerset House round winding steps down the rabbit hole, and you will emerge in the...
Poetry | Waking Under the Walnut Street Bridge by Mara Adamitz...
let me persist but not divide let me sit
quietly with the tiniest ...
Review | Now, Now, Louison by Jean Frémon
Now, Now, Louison, Jean Frémon (translated by Cole Swensen), Les Fugitives, 2018, pp.115, £12.00
Now, Now, Louison, originally published in French as Calme-toi, Louison in 2016, is...
Book Launch at Enitharmon: Stephen Romer and Alan Jenkins
The light, bright space of Enitharmon bookshop in Bloomsbury was filled with jostlings and murmurings as more and more people tried to fit into...
Ritual Landscapes by Francis Pryor
Many academic phrases, like much academic writing, are too awkward, verbose and cumbersome to find their way into common usage. Indeed, the jargon of...
The Bonniest Companie by Kathleen Jamie
Walking and climbing in a landscape of clifftops, glens, summits and strands, the speaker in Kathleen Jamie’s subtle and assured seventh collection journeys through...