Poetry gets a bad rep; the poems we do at GCSE rarely connect us to the author. Whilst I read incredible works of poetic fiction, they always left 16-year-old me feeling distanced from the page. That was, until I watched spoken word performances, and later read the writings of Andrea […]
Arts
The Verse’s Ciara Brennan reviews If Beale Street Could Talk, by James Baldwin (published in 1974 by Dial Press): “a 5/5 (…) this tale of systematic racism, and the power of love, is one we should all take heed of.” When 19-year-old Tish’s 22-year-old lover Fonny is arrested for a […]
The Verse’s Ciara Brennan reviews Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson (published in 1971 by Random House), a “4 out of 5, the novel speaks on the importance of everything we lost generations ago – something […]
Based on a collaborative research between Universities of Brighton, Birmingham, and Lincoln, artist Lindsay Seers brings an immersive 360* film to the Fabrica contemporary art gallery, centered in the heart of Brighton. Care (less) began as a project created in response to a new commission, produced by the three universities […]
The Verse’s Jake Francis review Farley’s House and Gallery: Home of the Surrealists. ‘Your school years are the best time of your life.’ I think a lot of children heard that quote at least once before the age of 18, usually, in response to a seemingly reasonable moan about a […]
