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…
We Are The Cenotaphs by Aaron Fagan
Over a cup of Marco Polo And a bowl of bird’s nest soup, Listening to the world as a whole…
Competence by Anna Kahn
There is nothing in this room for those who have not learned to sing without thinking, who don’t know where…
Vanessa Bell at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
How much context do we need to appreciate a painting? Take, for example, Vanessa Bell’s Studland Beach, 1912. We might…
Hair by Sam McKnight at Somerset House
Follow lipstick red arrows pasted on the floor of Somerset House round winding steps down the rabbit hole, and you…
Poetry and the Public by Paul Gittins
The prestigious T.S. Eliot Award in January that kicked off the poetry establishment’s crowded calendar of poetry competitions served to…
Stranger, Baby by Emily Berry
Freud is dangerous territory for poets. He did more than just make his mark on the literature of the twentieth…
Bright Celestial Objects by Rebecca Goss
After Alison Watt, ‘Venus’ (2015) Their backs against the grass, she felt a pull, as if the leaves on the…
Madness by Patrick Cash
There’s a stream by the Avon ward Where I stand to watch the water flow And unwind the whirlpools of…
The Glass Menagerie at the Duke of York’s Theatre
Cherry Jones returns to the role of Amanda Wingfield in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie, directed by John Tiffany. This London…
Fiction | An Actor in the Wings: Notes (1980 – 2009) by Andre van Loon
Charles I could see him from beside the door. He was surrounded by men in suits, pointing at the ceiling,…
Chalk Poets by Stephanie Norgate
The otherness of nature, the gap that separates its permanence from our finite experience, is as much a part of…
Adventures in Moominland at Southbank Centre
“What do you know of the Moomins: the books, the television series, or maybe you just recognize the characters?” That…
Puddocks by John Greening
for SECH Clare would have called these five red kites circling above dead or stag’s-headed oaks like iambs broken…
Hammer and Tongue Poetry Slam Finals at the Royal Albert Hall
I had watched countless videos on YouTube, attended other poetry slams and kept abreast of the ‘scene’ on social media,…
Fiction | Diasporic Guilt by Mohamed Keshavjee
‘Shoeshine, sir?’ asked the young lad with a shoeshine box in his hand, as I peered into the window of…
Chan by Hannah Lowe
Hannah Lowe’s latest collection of poetry Chan (Bloodaxe, 2016) revisits the characters and stories from her first collection, Chick (Bloodaxe,…
Unity in Variety VI at Gabriel Fine Arts
In the sixth edition of their most recent collaboration with Barikee, Gabriel Fine Arts showcased an expansive array of work,…
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