The Red Barn at The National TheatreReviews, WritingIn a recent interview with The Times, acclaimed theatre director Robin Icke said that he walks out of shows at…
Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago by Douglas CowieReviews, WritingDouglas Cowie’s most recent book, Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago, is a fictionalised account of the near-two-decades-long relationship between Simone de…
No’s Knife at The Old VicReviews, Writing‘… no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that’s the mistake I made, one…
London Literature Festival, Southbank CentreReviews, WritingAn evening at the Southbank Centre is always going to be enlightening and entertaining – this is never more true…
Danny Rolph – East Central at CNB GalleryReviews, WritingTo improve efficiency during World War I the 10 London postcode districts which had been introduced in 1857 were subdivided…
Picasso Sculptures at Musée National Picasso-ParisReviews, WritingPicasso Sculpture opened to great acclaim last September at New York’s Museum of Modern Art before moving to the Musée…
William Eggleston: PortraitsReviews, WritingWilliam Eggleston wrote far better than most writers write. He wrote without words through his portraits as fleeting and resonant…
Björk Digital at Somerset HouseReviews, TLM Featured, WritingOver her three-decade long career, Icelandic artist Björk has always blurred limits; genre limits between experimental and pop music, verbal…
Wife by Tiphanie YaniqueReviews, WritingIntimacy and infidelity, warmth and vacuousness, possessed and free. These are all the paradoxes that are found, lost, and found…
The Red and Yellow Nothing by Jay BernardReviews, Reviews, WritingIt is difficult to put a finger on the immediate aftermath of reading The Red and Yellow Nothing: there is…
Dead Women Poets SocietyReviews, Writing‘#JoinTheSeance!’ is Helen Bowell’s excited exhortation to a low-lit room of poetry enthusiasts, surrounded by electric candles in the basement of…
Say Something Back by Denise RileyReviews, WritingIn their most cliched form, attempts to describe the experience of bereavement tend to settle into a series of unanswerable…
The Sleepwalkers by Will StoneReviews, WritingEurope is a wasteland in Will Stone’s third collection The Sleepwalkers. The poet portrays the continent as ‘What’s left of…
Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van DyckReviews, WritingThe idea behind ‘Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck’ is an exciting one, if a little difficult to communicate in…
Yerma at the Young VicNews, Reviews, WritingAustralian theatre’s “enfant terrible,” Simon Stone, rewrites and directs Lorca’s Yerma through a glass darkly. Opening night of Yerma at…
The Blind Roadmaker by Ian DuhigNews, ReviewsIn his latest eclectic collection of poems, Ian Duhig sings (and dances) for those marginalised in poetry and forgotten by…
Two Collections from Copper Canyon PressNews, ReviewsWhen Richard Siken’s first collection, Crush, was awarded the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize in 2004, it won Louise…
New Voices from the Tower Hamlets SchoolsNews, ReviewsSLAMbassadors Showcase, 14th July 2016 Close your eyes, and try to remember the last time a thirteen-year-old implored you to…
Falling Awake by Alice OswaldNews, Reviews‘The whole challenge of poetry’, Alice Oswald once wrote, ‘is to keep language open, so that what we don’t yet…
Pearl by Simon ArmitageNews, ReviewsSimon Armitage’s new translation of the fourteenth-century poem Pearl follows his energetic 2008 translation of the same anonymous poet’s Sir…
Forward Prizes for Poetry 2016: Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection – ShortlistNews, ReviewsThis year’s contenders for the Felix Dennis Prize represent an exciting new generation of poets emerging beyond the bounds of…
Faith Healer at Donmar WarehouseNews, ReviewsLyndsey Turner’s revival of Brian Friel’s 1979 play uses the wisdom of age to give this oft dubbed “modern masterpiece”…
No Map Could Show Them by Helen MortNews, ReviewsNo Map Could Show Them, Mort’s second collection, explores the narratives of Victorian and modern women –mountaineers, campaigners, runners –…
Through by David HerdNews, ReviewsDavid Herd begins his new collection Through with the line: ——It is possible to be precise. The wording– “it is…
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