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Showing posts with label lockdown. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lockdown. Show all posts
Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Review by Tracey Foster of "Spring Cannot Be Cancelled: David Hockney in Normandy" by Martin Gayford

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At least they can't cancel Spring was a refrain coined by David Hockney in 2020 when he found himself locked down in Normandy, surround...
Tuesday, 26 March 2024

Review by Gary Day of "The Silence" by Gillian Clarke

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  Charles Simic said that ‘poetry is a translation of the silence.’ Gillian Clarke’s collection goes a step further. It is not a translation...
Friday, 9 June 2023

Review by Colin Dardis of "Murmurations" by Clare Dwyer

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The poems in Murmurations are culled from a notebook that Dwyer kept during the pandemic, written across each wave of the Coronavirus pande...
Tuesday, 9 March 2021

Review by Sue Mackrell of "Whose hand would you like to hold ..." by Patricia McCarthy

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Patricia McCarthy’s poignantly titled chapbook, written during the first lockdown, invites us to ‘Draw the curtains, light the candle.’ It i...
Thursday, 7 January 2021

Review by Cate West of "The Plague" by Albert Camus

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Published in 1947 and sold out all over town in spring 2020, it was worth re- reading The Plague simply to appreciate, not only how well wri...
Friday, 1 January 2021

Review by Cathi Rae of "Arrival at Elsewhere," Curated by Carl Griffin

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At the end of March 2020, when the world closed down, artists and writers I knew fell into two camps: there were those, faced with very re...