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Tag: Biography

An interview with award-winning poet Polly Atkin in Grasmere: ‘When is a cloud lonely in the Lake District?’

7th December 20228th December 2022  Iona Glen

Iona Glen meets award-winning poet, Polly Atkin, to discuss her recent biography Recovering Dorothy, how Dorothy Wordsworth’s illness has been overlooked in academic scholarship, the marginalisation of those with chronic ill health, poems as time machines and much more.

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Biography, Dorothy Wordsworth, Grasmere, Interview, Iona Glen, Lake District, Poetry, Polly Atkin, Saraband Books, Seren Books, William Wordsworth

Josephine Baker by Catel and Bocquet – a triumph of research and astounding detail

22nd June 202030th June 2020  Gabriela Frost

Dancer, singer, actress, activist and spy: Josephine Baker took both the stage and lectern by storm, as beautifully and boldly conceived in Catel and Bocquet’s graphic novel. But when it comes to her queer relationships they’re decidedly silent, writes our reviewer Gabriela Frost.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Biography, Bobino Theatre, Bocquet, Cabaret, Catel, Catel Muller, comic, graphic novel, Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, José-Louis Bocquet, Josephine Baker, LGBTQ+, Martin Luther King, Night, Night / Shift, Pride, Queer Relationships, SelfMadeHero, UK Black Pride
  • Magic by Moonlight: Kirsten Glass’ Night-Scented Stock at Karsten Schubert, London
    By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou
  • Picturing Loss: On Francesca Woodman by Lisa Goodrum
    By Lisa Goodrum
  • Beyond the Confines of Nell Brookfield’s Canvas
    By Rachel Ashenden
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