Posted on by Derek Turner

A poet’s pole position

Arctic Elegies Peter Davidson, Carcanet, 2022, pb., 72pps. £11.99 DEREK TURNER feels impelled to look to the north There are poets associated with particular places, or special states of mind, but Peter Davidson has made a geo-poetical genre of his own, as celebrant of a cardinal point. His interests are wide-ranging, but magnetized in one…

Posted on by Richard Dove

Basso profundo

Image: Wikimedia Commons RICHARD DOVE is bedazzled by a phenomenal bassist Being a virtuoso musician presents a fresh set of responsibilities. You can play anything at any tempo, and you do. The results are not always, shall we say, rewarding and affecting. That could not be said for bassist Shri Sriram and his quartet at…