Poetry | Atlantic Palimpsest by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
-for Heaney and the Peace Bridge Grey and greying sky reflected in choppy body, as our matching heron performs his…
Review | Fatherland at the Lyric Hammersmith
The coats stand out in the exhilarating performance piece Fatherland now on at the Lyric, Hammersmith after its premiere in…
Poetry | The Goldfinches of Rome by Peter Anderson
Carduelis carduelis (Fringilla carduelis. Linn. 1758) Dawn on the Palatine: planets bow out, stars pick their way through rat-traps and…
Review | Multiverse by Andrew Wynn Owen
The Multiverse ( or theermvsuitle as it says on the cover) is the first poetry collection by Andrew Wynn Owen,…
Poetry | Waking Under the Walnut Street Bridge by Mara Adamitz Scrupe
Mara Adamitz Scrupe Waking Under the Walnut Street Bridge let me persist but not divide …
Essay | A Journey Through Silence by Georgie Knaggs
The chat stops. We rise to our feet, step back over our benches. My foot hunts for its flip-flop. I…
Review | The Ink Trade by Anthony Burgess, Edited by Will Carr
Even though Burgess was an ‘enormously prolific journalist’, he is dominantly known for his controversial, cult classic A Clockwork…
Essay | Personal Feeling is the Main Thing by Sue Hubbard
By Sue Hubbard I have long been interested in the work of Chantal Joffe and have written about her on…
Review | The Inheritance at The Young Vic
The Inheritance stands at almost seven hours long: Matthew Lopez’s two-part, self-aware epic on the legacy of gay men past-and…
Review | Three Women at The Trafalgar Studios
Katy Brand’s Three Women at the Trafalgar Studios offers a representation of the title across respective and somewhat stereotypical generations. Suzanne, a…
Review | Home by Amanda Berriman
Home is an overwhelming and important, gripping novel about a struggling family seen through the eyes of four-year old daughter, Jesika. Amanda…
Poetry | On His Deafness by Damian Grant
‘No-one has ever written a poem “On His Deafness”’; (David Lodge, Deaf Sentence). – – – – – – – –…
Fiction | The Old Men Who Row Boats by David Joseph
In Madrid, not far from the great museums that line the streets, old men row boats in the morning hours…
Review | Carcanet New Poetries VII: Book Launch at the London Review Bookshop
The London Review Bookshop, Bloomsbury, 7pm. Wine glasses clatter as they are placed on the floor, animated conversation fills the…
Fiction | About You by Marjorie Main
Early on a Saturday morning in October I met Vivian at Liverpool Street Station. Stevie had a painting in an…
Fiction | Beloved by Roger Raynal
That morning, when Ryoji woke up, fired from sleep by a strident, but usual sound, he refrained from opening…
Essay | My London by Mark Wilkins
Arriving in London in late September 1977 to start a law degree course, I fell irretrievably in love with London,…
Review | Picasso 1932: Love, Fame, Tragedy at the Tate Modern
If you’ve ever doubted the sheer scale of Picasso’s productivity, a visit to the Tate Modern’s latest exhibition will convince…
Fiction | We Walk to Dissect by Laura Davis
There are bulls everywhere, a mass of black parading around the fence. The grass is yellower where their feet trample,…
Fiction | The Sinners’ Corner by Mark Sadler
I returned to work on a dismal Tuesday morning, emerging from the main entrance of London, Fenchurch Street, railway station…
Poetry | Under the Loquat by Peter Anderson
He had that majority under the loquat, rain falling like a god in gold, the breakthrough sun, and the spin…
Interview | Bea Colley – Southbank Centre
We stopped by the Southbank Centre to talk with Literature Programmer Bea Colley about the reopening of the Queen Elizabeth…
Fiction | Sylvia Plath Watches Us Sleep, But We Don’t Mind by Victoria Richards
‘Sylvia Plath Watches Us Sleep, But We Don’t Mind’ was the third prize winner in our Short Story Competition 2017.…
Fiction | Mr. Cahill by William Roberts
The little party wandered slowly along the rows of the hillside garden, pausing in the warm afternoon Northern California…
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