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…
Howard Hodgkin: Absent Friends at the National Portrait Gallery
According to a new exhibition of Howard Hodgkin’s work at the National Portrait Gallery, one of the artist’s principal concerns…
An interview with Paul Benney
If you walk along one of the leafy roads from Hackney Downs and turn down a little side street, you…
An interview with Fiona Sampson
Fiona Sampson MBE is a poet and writer, published in thirty-seven languages, who has received international prizes in the US,…
Acrostic by Sudeep Sen
(R.I.P. Derek Walcott: January 23, 1930 – March 17, 2017) Deep seas of yesteryears wash new froth on your home…
Essay | Marion Coutts: ‘Aiming or Hitting’ by Annie Carpenter
These are busy times for the writer and artist Marion Coutts. Her first novel, The Iceberg, which was published in…
Review | Louder Than Hearts by Zeina Hashem Beck
‘Louder than Hearts has it all’, writes Betsy Sholl, judge of the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, ‘compelling…
Pigeons by Kate Bingham
I It’s just the same old air a person breathes, roughly the same respiratory system, steady compared with ours, the…
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