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,…
An interview with Ben Ehrenreich
Just south of the village, Nabi Saleh, there is a spring. It is called Ein al Qoos or the Bow…
That Boy by Robert Nazarene
He was patient as a dead bird. He perched on the ledge of bottom and rocked. He was the…
Silence in Modern Arabic Poetry by Ann Tahseen Al-Chalabi
In poetic terms silence can refer to a static and invisible light behind the words of the poetic text. This…
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Some suggest that science fiction is a woman’s genre. In its purest form, sci-fi reimagines the structures of society and,…
Anastasia at The Royal Opera House
The revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s compelling and experimental ballet Anastasia is currently being performed by the Royal Ballet for the first time since…
An interview with Yewon Jung
In 2015, Deborah Smith – translator of Han Kang’s The Vegetarian – set up Tilted Axis Press, a publishing house…
The Red Barn at The National Theatre
In a recent interview with The Times, acclaimed theatre director Robin Icke said that he walks out of shows at…
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