Four winning poetry pamphlets
Pam Thompson reviews a clutch of prize-winning pamphlets from Smith/Doorstop The Infinite Knot Josephine Abbott ISBN 978-1-910367-81-0 Broken Cities Katy Evans-Bush...
View ArticleLondon Grip Poetry Review – Crucefix
D A Prince considers how best to appreciate the subtle poetry of Martyn Crucefix The Lovely Disciplines Martyn Crucefix Seren, 2017 ISBN 978-1-78172-389-0 72 pp £9.99 Martyn Crucefix’s pamphlets and...
View ArticleLondon Grip Poetry Review – McGowan
Rosie Johnston admires the strongly narrative poetry of Jennifer A McGowan With Paper for Feet Jennifer A. McGowan Arachne Press 2017 ISBN: 978-1-909208-35-3 96pp £9.99 Having been diagnosed with...
View ArticleLondon Grip Poetry Review – France
Pamela Johnson finds that Angela France’s landscape poems work on several levels. The Hill Angela France Nine Arches Press ISBN: 9781911027218 60pp £9.99 It’s not unusual for a poet to produce a...
View ArticleDear Brutus, Southwark Playhouse. Review by Barbara Lewis.
A deft revival in the play’s centenary year is a welcome chance to shed fresh light on Barrie’s fixation with the mismatch between the human potential and idealism represented by a child and the failed...
View ArticleLondon Grip Poetry Review – Ellams
Rosie Johnston is captivated by an engaging and original collection from Inua Ellams #Afterhours Inua Ellams Nine Arches Press 2017 ISBN: 9781911027164 142pp £9.99 Inua Ellams is a lucky man. For the...
View ArticleLondon Grip Poetry Review – Litherland
Graham Hardie is enthusiastic about the new collection from S J Litherland Composition in White S.J. Litherland Smokestack Books ISBN:9780995767508 79pp £7.99 S.J. Litherland’s Composition in White...
View ArticleLondon Grip Poetry Review – Walton
John Forth welcomes Robert Walton’s second collection – even if it comes a long time after the first Sax Burglar Blues Robert Walton Seren Books (2017) ISBN 9 7871781 724088 64pp £9.99 You have to love...
View ArticleThe Adventure of the Welsh Dresser – Part I
A London Grip serial story for Christmas THE ADVENTURE OF THE WELSH DRESSER – PART I (a version of this story first appeared in Torriano Nights – a festschrift for John Rety (Acumen 2009) * My...
View ArticleThe Adventure of the Welsh Dresser – Part II
Continuing the London Grip serial story for Christmas THE ADVENTURE OF THE WELSH DRESSER – PART II (a version of this story first appeared in Torriano Nights – a festschrift for John Rety (Acumen...
View ArticleThe Adventure of the Welsh Dresser – Part III
Concluding the London Grip serial story for Christmas THE ADVENTURE OF THE WELSH DRESSER – PART III (a version of this story first appeared in Torriano Nights – a festschrift for John Rety...
View ArticleOld Flo Returns to the East End of London, by Jane McChrystal.
On Thursday 16th November a group of local government dignitaries, representatives of the Canary Wharf Group PLC and arts professionals from the Henry Moore Foundation assembled in in a well-known...
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