Book Review: The Bees

Reviewed by Jacob Silkstone Carol Ann Duffy, The Bees Picador, 2011, 84 pages (Hardback) ISBN: 978-0-330-44244-2 Carol Ann Duffy has made an admirable start to her term as Poet Laureate, embracing her role as public poet with far more enthusiasm than most of her predecessors were able to muster (Wordsworth...

Spotlight Artist – Ankolie

Your work would be right at home in an Enid Blyton book. Who were your favourite authors growing up? First of all, thanks! I’m very flattered to be associated with Enid Blyton! When I was little, I started reading my mother’s books pretty quickly. At age 11, I was reading Bukowski (without understanding...

Spotlight Artist – Amira Farooq

What’s a day in your life like? A day in my life is never the same. I just live and when inspiration comes I paint. Your work in five words. Colorful, blunt, thought provoking, conceptual, unique. You’ve dabbled in many different things over the years. When did you decide you were going to be a painter...

Spotlight Artist – Sonja Dimovska

 Have you always known you wanted to be a graphic artist? Graphic art is a medium I most frequently use to express myself. I have a feeling as if I have been doing that for my whole life. I have always found graphics as something very close to me, since my early beginnings. An unpremeditated choice of mine...

Book Review: In Defence of Adultery

Reviewed by Jacob Silkstone Julia Copus, In Defence of Adultery (Bloodaxe, 2003) ISBN: 1-85224-607-3 The American poet Jennifer Grotz once said that ‘Poetry is philosophy’s twin sister. The one that wears make-up.’ More generously, it’s possible to imagine poetry as a trendier older sister to...

Spotlight Poet – Karen Alkalay-Gut

 Behind the Words: An Interview with Karen Alkalay-Gut by Omri J. Luzon Karen Alkalay-Gut is a professor at Tel-Aviv University, the Chair of the Israel Association of Writers in English, Vice Chair of the Federation of Writers Unions in Israel and the board member of the Yiddish Writers Association. She is...