YOU WONT BELIEVE: 4 - What They Never Told You

Valentine's Day: why you should send a love letter not a text – with help from some of English’s greatest writers

Most of us, these days, communicate via text message, email and posts on social media. The age of the letter, it seems, is past.

The Conversation · Feb 13, 2023

Balladz by Sharon Olds review – insights and elegies

From pandemic poems to homages to Emily Dickinson, the American poet’s new work is intimate and heart-stirring

The Guardian - UK · Jan 17, 2023

Commentary: Clinging to old classics can go hand in hand with banning books

Too often, we forget that fights about what we shouldn’t read are also battles over what we should read. And that every time someone attempts to ban Toni Morrison or Ta-Nehisi Coates, they’re also trying to corral our kids back to Hawthorne and Hemingway, Dante and Dickens.

Los Angeles Times · Oct 25, 2022

‘A little bit addictive and the right amount hard’: new video game is based on poems of Emily Dickinson

The 80s-style shooter EmilyBlaster is a real-life version of a game featured in Gabrielle Zevin’s forthcoming novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

The Guardian - UK · Jun 21, 2022

Benediction, from director Terence Davies, examines the life and secret affairs of queer English war poet Siegfried Sassoon

British director Terence Davies’s ninth feature centres on Siegfried Sassoon, a poet and decorated war veteran who suffered from shell shock and struggled to find 'redemption' from his secret queer romances.

ABC News · Jun 8, 2022

Apple TV+: The best original shows to watch, from Ted Lasso to Severance

Here are the finest things on Apple TV+, according to Inga Parkel. Including The Morning Show, Pachinko, WeCrashed and lots more

The Independent UK · Jun 7, 2022

Benediction review – artful Siegfried Sassoon biopic full of unresolved yearning

The war poet’s life provides rich material for director Terence Davies to explore his preoccupations with sexuality, religion and the search for redemption

The Guardian - UK · May 22, 2022

‘I wish I was very good-looking and very stupid’: Terence Davies on sex, death and Benediction

As his Siegfried Sassoon biopic is released, the director opens up about his ill-fated straight romance, being snubbed by Bafta and how it felt to sleep in the bed where his father died

The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2022

Hook-ups, pansexuals and holy connection: love in the time of millennials and Generation Z

“That Love is all there is,” wrote Emily Dickinson,

The Conversation · May 15, 2022

Apple TV+: The best original shows to watch, from Ted Lasso to Severance

Here are the finest things on Apple TV+, according to Inga Parkel. Including The Morning Show, Pachinko, WeCrashed and lots more

The Independent UK · May 14, 2022