Everything in this production been given a Scandinavian flavor – special kudos to prosciutto for playing its role as boar’s meat quite well.
Fuse Poetry Review: “Davey McGravy” — Real Grief, Real Imagination
Part of the maturity of Davey McGravy is how, though each poem has its own shape, each is a necessary part of the whole.
Poetry Review: “The New Oxford Book of War Poetry” — The Duty to Run Mad
Editor Jon Stallworthy’s preference in this superb anthology is for poems that question, or provoke questions about, war.
Book Review: “Becoming a Londoner” — A Record of a Charmed Life or A Life Made Charming
David Plante’s non-fiction and fiction are of a piece. There is the honesty of a writer who is willing and able to, first, face himself, then, write what he sees, and then, allow the world to see his seeing.
Poetry Appreciation: Seamus Heaney — “You’ll know them if I can get them true”
Throughout his writing, poet Seamus Heaney’s penetrating imagination is one that strives for accuracy.
Book Review: “The Goddess Chronicle” — Needs Less Plot, More Imagination
There is a paucity of richness in The Goddess Chronicle. The myth might have been, but wasn’t, mined for tales of compassion, or inevitability of sorrow, or the psychology of misogyny or of revenge, or the strictures of fate.
Book Review: A Compelling Look at the Life of Poet John Keats
There is a steadiness about Nicholas Roe’s writing that is deceptive; the life in the Life does not jump off the page, but it accumulates during the reading so that something of what it felt like to be around John Keats remains, as things do when truly experienced.
Poetry Review: “The Briar Patch” — Crafty Poems, Accomplished and Sly
Poems of concise and precise description and philosophy find their way among poems of memory and daily life, money, art, love, and the oddities in giving names. J. Kates’s technique is alive and various throughout.
Poetry Review: The Beautiful Precision of Poet David Ferry
David Ferry’s voice is quiet but never shirks. It admits directly and indirectly that the world is a perplexing place.
Theater Review: A Moving “let us find the words”
Ingeborg Bachmann wanted freedom for them both. She says in her letter, “I am free and I am lost in this freedom.” Dominique Frot is a brave actress. She presents the poet’s freedom in her body and voice.