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Two Poems

  Fanny Howe appears here in The London Magazine’s series of contemporary New England poets. She was born in 1940…

Master Portrait Painter

  Giovanni Battista Moroni Royal Academy 25 October 2014 – 25 January 2015 The gift of the true master portrait…

Pleasing People Seriously

  Benjamin Britten, War Requiem, Royal Albert Hall, Remembrance Sunday, 9 November 2014 at 3.30pm, with Evelina Dobračeva (soprano), Stephan…

The Poetry and The Pity

  Some Desperate Glory, Max Egremont, Picador, 2014, 336pp, £20 (hardback) Horses Between Our Legs, Patricia McCarthy, Agenda Editions, 2014,…

Art for Art’s Sake

  A Victorian Obsession Leighton House Museum 14 November 2014 – 29 March 2015 A Victorian Obsession, an exhibition at…

A Stagnant Art World

  Post Pop: East Meets West, The Saatchi Gallery, 26 November 2014 – 23 February 2015 Sturtevant: Double Trouble, The…

Aiming a Wild Kick

  Roger Hilton Jonathan Clark Fine Art (by appointment) 18 Park Walk, London SW10 0AQ <info@jcfa.co.uk> Why do some artists…

Thrum in Tandem

  An Aviary of Small Birds, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Carcanet, 2014, 88pp, £9.95 (paperback) The Weather Wheel, Mimi Khalvati, Carcanet,…

My London

  Peter Davies is the ninth writer in the My London series. He is a journalist and literary critic. When,…

The Pope Gives His Approval

  Summers always have to come to an end. As the children went back to their respective schools, I realised…

Mailer on Hemingway and Lawrence

  In the New York Times of November 28, 2014 Dwight Garner called Norman Mailer’s letters ‘mostly low-wattage, a rolling…

Two Poems

A Bit of Love He must rise now. No more hiding in hospital sleep or skill of the hands that…

Two Poems

  Come Late In The Day To This Shore Come late in the day to this shore the tide out…

Glatt’s Ronda

  Justin Glatt. Remember him? Probably not, but, for a while, he was a name, not mega, as they say,…

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