Isabel Galleymore

Mar 25, 2024 | poetryfoundation.org | Isabel Galleymore

That night, when I got home, I learnt a tree frog species had been lost and my body was releasing its usual sum of blood. I only had a few years left, my mother often warned, and I watched footage of the tree frog sitting about in its tank, the clip of the frog’s “lonely” call. Was I angry or sorry? Whichever. This couldn’t be called a crisis.

Feb 8, 2024 | pnreview.co.uk | Isabel Galleymore

This annual celebration of Earth that raises awareness of the need to protect the environment began on 22 April 1970, just a few years after the planet was first photographed from space. In the recorded conversation between members of the Apollo 8 crew, there’s clear excitement at the prospect of capturing the world through the camera lens.

Nov 26, 2023 | yorkshiretimes.co.uk | Keith Hutson |Isabel Galleymore |Abeer Ameer |Matthew Stewart

I make no apology for including an old favourite as this week’s Poem of the Week. Keith Hutson’s poetry is an extension of the life he once lived. As an experienced comedy writer and old hand in the theatre industry, he has a natural sympathy with comics and entertainers of a certain historical vintage, their predecessors in Music Hall and on the early twentieth century stage. Hutson’s impulse, beyond the simple emotion of affinity, is empathic.

Nov 24, 2023 | cumbriatimes.co.uk | It’s Rossini |Isabel Galleymore |Abeer Ameer |Matthew Stewart

artsWith the collective sentiments so thoroughly slapped and tickled, and the audience washed-up in a tide of goodwill, it would be both pointless and churlish to find fault in Thursday’s premiere of The Barber of Seville at Bradford’s St George’s Hall. And if the poet and broadcaster Ian McMillan’s Yorkshire dialect take on Rossini’s comic masterpiece stretched credulity to breaking point, it didn’t matter a whit.

Nov 20, 2023 | yorkshiretimes.co.uk | Isabel Galleymore |Abeer Ameer |Matthew Stewart |Rachel Bower

artsIt is a testament to the power and authority of the combined forces of Langcliffe Singers and Settle Orchestra that they should persuade a confirmed Baroque enthusiast to recalibrate his compass. And you needn’t be a devotee of German Romanticism to have relished the sheer verve of Saturday evening’s performance of Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem, in the evocative space of Skipton’s Christ Church.