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Glyn Maxwell, Alan Gillis, Ben Wilkinson on poetic voice, formal prowess, and strange times . . . Paul Farley took the pulse at the turn of our millennium when he quipped that contemporary poets haven’t had criticism, they’ve had marketing. In an age where marketing’s role in matters aesthetic is ever-increasing, the individual voice can be an overvalued commodity, playing to a perceived appetite for poet-as-author. It is refreshing, then, to encounter Glyn Maxwell’s How the Hell Are You, a collection of poems whose unfashionably complex play with poetic voice recognises and exploi...

10 Most Underrated ENTOMBED Songs We shine the spotlight on some underappreciated gems from one of metal’s most uncompromising bands. By The metal community has been rocked by the recent news of Entombed frontman LG Petrov’s passing. The influential 49-year-old was one of the spearheads of the Swedish death metal movement in the late-’80s, before helping to innovate another new sub-genre in metal with death ‘n’ roll. This stylistic change in the mid-’90s never felt forced or manufactured, but simply, a change of direction for the group. In fact, if anything, it felt like a reflec...

The pantomime will be the first ever summer panto for Kings Theatre, Portsmouth. With theatres on track to reopen as part of the government’s roadmap for recovery, Dick Whittington - The Pompey Panto, will run from Friday, July 23, until Sunday, August 8. Although The Kings has put on touring Easter pantomimes in the past, most recently starring Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee in 2014, this will be the first time they will have produced a summer panto. The traditional pantomime will once again feature favourites including X Factor finalist and one half of Same Difference, Sean Smith, ...

Panto return Kings spokesman John King said: “After Dick Whittington’s quest was cut short in December disappointing thousands of ticket-holders, the Kings Theatre is thrilled to announce that Dick can complete his journey by returning in the summer to finish what he started. “With theatres on track to reopen as part of the government’s roadmap for recovery, Dick Whittington – The Pompey Panto will run from Friday, July 23 until Sunday, August 8 2021 in a first for the venue. “Although The Kings has put on touring Easter pantomimes in the past, most recently starring Paul Daniels ...