Poetry can challenge, reinterpret, and entertain, and Luke Kennard’s does all three.
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In a world of multiplexes, films on phones, and on any number of other devices why not watch one in a replica 1950s Antarctic scientists hut?
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Poetry isn’t known for being one of the more gruelling art forms. But performance poet Lewis Buxton has brought his trainers and exercise mat, and he’s not afraid to break into a sweat in his compelling show about a youth spent trying to outrun obsessive thoughts.
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This show did not have an auspicious start – six performers milling around the stage, sharing in-jokes and nattering away – but appearances can be deceptive.
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What can politics teach poetry? That was the question posed by Tim Clare and Mark Grist at this unusual verse meets votes show at Norwich Arts Centre.
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This IOU Theatre piece definitively gives
a new perspective on life: for most of the show the audience are watching from
the back of an open-top bus.
When it comes to artifice, how much more fake can you get than a review of a show about lying?
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Poetry has long been associated with war, and this collection of poems and films adds some thought-provoking additions to the canon.
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To those that allege that the Norfolk and Norwich Festival is all middle class indulgence, Hollie McNish is the answer.
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It’s strange the things we can get nostalgic about: for Ross Sutherland, it’s the humble videotape.
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Poetry evenings can be rather somnolent affairs, but at this one a gauntlet was thrown down: be harder on poetry.
Explore MoreThis visit to the Norfolk and Norwich Festival by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy was a homecoming of sorts, sponsored as it was by The Rialto – the Norfolk-based poetry magazine that was one of the first to recognise her talent thirty years ago.
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