book review
The Indian whales surface at the National Poetry library, London! Yogesh Patel with Mona Dash, Dr Bashabi Fraser, Rishi Dastidar and Dr Debjani Chatterjee Poetry and the literary establishment in the UK remain in the denial of the British Indian poets. Anyone can askance the poetry magazines and also see the makeup of the audience …
Review of Red Lipstick and Revelations If this book were a tango it would be Salvador Dali dancing with L S Lowry, (e.g., the poem ‘Sealed in Table Bay’, with its dreamlike word associations dancing with the nostalgic ‘Bread Pudding Days’. Add to that a sprinkling of finger-snapping jazz memes, and you will have an …
The opening sets the tone for Lobban’s life as heir to one of the more ‘successful’ crime families of the 60’s and 70’s. William’s uncle, hardman Robert Manson, (described by Lobban as a “real Glaswegian gangster of a long gone era”) was an underworld force until his murder in April 1983. With the loss of …