Review | The Essence of Things at 48 Albemarle Street
Arriving at 48 Albemarle Street you immediately enter a stripped-back environment; surrounded by exposed brick, wood and metal. This industrial…
Interview | Charlie Godet Thomas
Floating above your head a radiant yellow weather vane in the shape of a speech bubble, turning with the wind,…
Interview| Barry Miles, founder of the International Times
This week sees the opening of the exhibition The British Underground Press of the Sixties, at A22 Gallery, Clerkenwell, featuring…
Essay| Shetland Norn by Simon Tait
Shetland is a quiet, self-possessed nation of 22,000 whose population still considers itself to be more Norse than British. They…
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…
Extending the Range of Pejoratives: Howard Jacobson’s Pussy
Written in “a fury of disbelief” during the weeks that followed the unlikely election of Donald Trump, Howard Jacobson’s latest…
Donald Trump – America’s First Oligarch-in-Chief
By Mohammad Zahoor On 20th January this year Donald Trump was sworn in as President of the United States. In…
Interview | At the Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet with Michael Joseph
‘Beggars Banquet is the album that changed everything for the Rolling Stones,’ the band state on their official website, rollingstones.com,…
Quotidian Queerness
The great strength of this exhibition is its demonstration of the ubiquitous nature of queer art and culture. Timed to…
You Must Change Your Life – The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachael Corbett
You Must Change Your Life is an enthralling exploration of the complex relationship between two creative giants of art and…
Interview | Karen Ashton, founder of the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Sale
This Sunday, the Art Car Boot Fair Pulls Back In To Vauxhall Back to its roots in the heart…
An Interview with Frieda Hughes
We caught up with Frieda Hughes, one of this year’s Poetry Prize 2017 judges. Although this prize has now closed,…
Poetry London Summer Readings: Rachael Allen, Andrew McMillan, Vahni Capildeo and Emily Berry
Poetry London’s summer launch opened with an impassioned speech by the poet Karen McCarthy Wood, who is a trustee on…
Review | ArtCircle’s Focusing Space at 48 Albermarle Street
On entering the doorway of 48 Albemarle Street and walking up its makeshift staircase of simple wooden boards you are…
Joel Shapiro at Pace London
Walking into the Joel Shapiro exhibition at the Pace gallery is like entering a painting, as a friend of mine…
An interview with Patricia McCarthy
We spoke to Patricia McCarthy, one of the judges for our Poetry Prize 2017, who gave a bit of advice on…
Through it by Ila Colley
This is not throwing plates, how you ask me. Too late for that. This is a whisper dissection. This is…
The First Time They Lowered The Flags by Peter Ainsworth
The first time they lowered the flags The President bowed his head. The next time they placed flowers To mourn…
Fiction | The Root of it All by Charlotte Newman
Pavements slick from rain and a market at night, risen dripping from the oily roads like a brand new…
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…
Internet Poetry by Paul Gittins
In the seventh of his twelve lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry, the late Geoffrey Hill took issue with the…
Faber Reading: An Evening with Emily Berry, Emma Jones, Zaffar Kunial, Daljit Nagra, Richard Scott
The Crypt on the Green in Clerkenwell Close was beautifully lit with fairy lights, and the low chatter of poetry…
Castles in the Air | Stephen Chambers : The Court of Redonda
Princes, prefects, urchins and poets; these are just a few in a court of luminaries setting sail to Venice. But…
Lisa Brice at the Stephen Friedman Gallery
In 1959 Yves Klein wrote: “blue has no dimensions.” For him, all other colours could be relegated to specific associative…
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