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Beethoven – The Poets’ Take: Anthony Anaxagorou, Raymond Antrobus & Ruth Padel

London Review Bookshop London Review Bookshop, 14-16 Bury Pl, Holborn, London

Like Beethoven, the poet Ruth Padel first came to love and understand music through playing the viola. Her great grandfather, a concert pianist, studied music in Leipzig with Beethoven’s friend and contemporary. Her latest collection Beethoven Variations (Chatto) is simultaneously a biography in verse of the great composer and a …

Time Lived Without Its Flow: Denise Riley, Max Porter, Emily Berry

London Review Bookshop London Review Bookshop, 14-16 Bury Pl, Holborn, London

Denise Riley’s devastating long poem ‘A Part Song’, written in response to the death of her son, was first published in the LRB in 2012 and later became the kernel of her acclaimed collection Say Something Back (Picador). The poem’s prose counterpart Time Lived, Without Its Flow was initially published …

Surfacing: Kathleen Jamie and Philip Hoare

London Review Bookshop London Review Bookshop, 14-16 Bury Pl, Holborn, London

In her latest book Surfacing (Sort of Books), poet and essayist Kathleen Jamie explores what emerges: from the earth, from memory and from the mind. Her travels take her from Arctic Alaska to the sand dunes and machair of Scotland in a quest to discover what archaeology might tell us …