Iain Sinclair and Will Self on Walking London
I’ve got a new eternal certainty to file alongside death and taxes: if you walk around London enough, and you know what he looks...
Review | Exhilarating Magus: Myth and Poetics in Stephen Yenser’s Stone...
Stone Fruit, Stephen Yenser’s highly anticipated third collection published by Waywiser, dazzles, delights, and enchants with its wordplay, predilection for sound effects, and linguistic...
Ophelia Among The Flowers by Redon
Odilon Redon’s Ophelia Among The Flowers is one of the many pastels that take Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet as their subject. But this early twentieth-century piece,...
Happiness by Jack Underwood
‘Sometimes your sadness is a yacht’ is the title of the fourth poem in Jack Underwood’s recently published collection Happiness. Highlighting early on in...
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
Freud is dangerous territory for poets. He did more than just make his mark on the literature of the twentieth century: he cross-hatched it....
Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain by Barney Norris
What is ‘home’? A person? A place? A feeling of belonging? These are the questions that run through Barney Norris’s debut novel like a finely...
William Eggleston: Portraits
William Eggleston wrote far better than most writers write. He wrote without words through his portraits as fleeting and resonant as a Carver story....
Poetry London Summer Readings: Rachael Allen, Andrew McMillan, Vahni Capildeo and...
Poetry London’s summer launch opened with an impassioned speech by the poet Karen McCarthy Wood, who is a trustee on the magazine’s board. The...
Review | Keith Vaughan: On Pagham Beach, Photographs and Collages from...
It is hard for those brought up in a world of gender fluidity, with debates about who has the right to use which bathroom,...
David Hockney at Tate Britain
Visiting a gallery in London during the February half term is a rookie error. In a bid to occupy restless children, and driven inside...
Review| The Letters Page Vol.2 published by Book Ex Machina
To pick up a book, writes Ioanna Mavrou, is ‘as if stepping out of the world for a beat and taking a much needed...
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
'The whole challenge of poetry', Alice Oswald once wrote, 'is to keep language open, so that what we don't yet know can pass through...
Picasso: Minotaurs and Matadors at the Gagosian
The Minotaur was a key figure in Picasso’s imagination and art, so much so that the artist once remarked that ‘If all the ways...
Designing Antiquity by Stephanie Moser
Apart from its scholarly and visual merits, this study deserves recognition as the second book-length work about Owen Jones, the once-famous Victorian architect and...
George Shaw – My Back to Nature
In the perpetual twilight of the woodland world, trees loom like sinister monoliths out of the gloom. Leaf-mould partially obscures a discarded garment, or...
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...
The Vintage Poetry Showcase: Ocean Vuong and Kayo Chingonyi
Ocean Vuong and Kayo Chingonyi’s recent reading is one of the most spectacular that I have attended. R. A. Villanueva introduced the event by...
Review | Calder on Paper: 1960 – 1976 at the Saatchi...
SALON, Saatchi Gallery’s commercial exhibition space, launched earlier this year aiming to present the work of leading international artists who have had limited exposure...
Review | Rainsongs, by Sue Hubbard
Sue Hubbard’s Rainsongs has a unique and beautiful emotive quality that shines through its delicately constructed prose in a love-letter to Ireland, memory and parenthood,...
Vanessa Bell at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
How much context do we need to appreciate a painting? Take, for example, Vanessa Bell’s Studland Beach, 1912. We might describe it in terms...
No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort
No Map Could Show Them, Mort’s second collection, explores the narratives of Victorian and modern women –mountaineers, campaigners, runners – and considers, more broadly,...
Unity in Variety VI at Gabriel Fine Arts
In the sixth edition of their most recent collaboration with Barikee, Gabriel Fine Arts showcased an expansive array of work, from the interpretive calligraphy...
You Must Change Your Life – The Story of Rainer Maria...
You Must Change Your Life is an enthralling exploration of the complex relationship between two creative giants of art and literature, drawn together in...
Sargent: The Watercolours at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
John Singer Sargent is best known as a painter of portraits in oil. Since childhood, however, he was also a keen watercolorist, and a...