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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…
Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago by Douglas Cowie
Douglas Cowie’s most recent book, Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago, is a fictionalised account of the near-two-decades-long relationship between Simone de…
No’s Knife at The Old Vic
‘… no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that’s the mistake I made, one…
Picasso Sculptures at Musée National Picasso-Paris
Picasso Sculpture opened to great acclaim last September at New York’s Museum of Modern Art before moving to the Musée…
William Eggleston: Portraits
William Eggleston wrote far better than most writers write. He wrote without words through his portraits as fleeting and resonant…
Wife by Tiphanie Yanique
Intimacy and infidelity, warmth and vacuousness, possessed and free. These are all the paradoxes that are found, lost, and found…
Dead Women Poets Society
‘#JoinTheSeance!’ is Helen Bowell’s excited exhortation to a low-lit room of poetry enthusiasts, surrounded by electric candles in the basement of…
Say Something Back by Denise Riley
In their most cliched form, attempts to describe the experience of bereavement tend to settle into a series of unanswerable…
The Sleepwalkers by Will Stone
Europe is a wasteland in Will Stone’s third collection The Sleepwalkers. The poet portrays the continent as ‘What’s left of…
Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck
The idea behind ‘Painters’ Paintings: from Freud to Van Dyck’ is an exciting one, if a little difficult to communicate in…
Yerma at the Young Vic
Australian theatre’s “enfant terrible,” Simon Stone, rewrites and directs Lorca’s Yerma through a glass darkly. Opening night of Yerma at…
The Blind Roadmaker by Ian Duhig
In his latest eclectic collection of poems, Ian Duhig sings (and dances) for those marginalised in poetry and forgotten by…
New Voices from the Tower Hamlets Schools
SLAMbassadors Showcase, 14th July 2016 Close your eyes, and try to remember the last time a thirteen-year-old implored you to…
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
‘The whole challenge of poetry’, Alice Oswald once wrote, ‘is to keep language open, so that what we don’t yet…
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