Category: Interview

MEETING BING SHI

Ars Notoria, 17th October 20254th March 2026

Portrait of Bing Shi by Andy Hall by Paul Halas For all its many faults social media sometimes provides us with gems, and the paintings of artist Bing Shi have for us been one of the highlights on Facebook this year. Working in oils, with bold, sweeping brushstrokes that fail…

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ANDY HALL’S COVERAGE OF THE CUBAN WITHDRAWAL FROM ANGOLA IN ‘89

Ars Notoria, 17th October 202518th March 2026

Africa South…. “Angola Rising”, photo ©Andy Hall ‘I was excited about the victory of the MPLA, but others weren’t’ An Interview with Ars Notoria Magazine Interviewer: Do you believe your background gave you a perspective on this conflict absent in most Western newsrooms? Because, of course, your parents were members…

A Seduction

“POETRY IS PRIMORDIAL” – AN INTERVIEW WITH A.F. MORITZ

Ars Notoria, 1st August 202511th September 2025

A F. (Albert) Moritz ranks among the most important poets writing in English today. The author of 22 volumes of verse alongside his work as a translator and editor, he is the recipient of the Griffin Prize for Excellence in Poetry, the English-speaking world’s most celebrated poetry award. He has…

Alicia E, Stallings

INTERVIEW WITH SHEENAGH PUGH

Ars Notoria, 19th March 202511th September 2025

Sheenagh Pugh at her back gate in Hoswick, Shetland, from the personal archive of Sheenagh Pugh Sheenagh Pugh was born in 1950. She lives in Shetland with her husband. She has published nine collections of poetry and translations, plus a Selected Poems and a sort of mini-Selected, two novels and a…

‘It’s delightful! Very, very funny … Anyone with a true sense of him should find it wholly engaging!’

Stephen Fry

What would Oscar Wilde make of modern day Britain? And what would modern day Britain make of a latter day Oscar Wilde?

In this beautifully illustrated graphic novel, Dan Pearce brings the celebrated and notorious Victorian wit a century into the future, with great humour and a Wildean sense of mischief in his own right.

“J. W. Wood’s stories evince a gift for the quotidian, employing brilliant conceits and mischievous turns of phrase which enrich the writing at every point. Capturing the frustration of curtailed lives and the grim horrors of the corporate world, Wood presents a meta-fictional universe in which the rich realise their folly and we control computers, not the other way round.”

—Julian Stannard, award-winning poet and author of The University of Bliss (Sagging Meniscus Press, USA, 2024)

That Was Hugo Blythe MP is the professional journal, presented in diary form, of government researcher Alaric Casteele. Casteele’s diary is a skilful interchange between events in his domestic life, and his meticulous eavesdropping into the political intrigues levelled against his boss Hugo Blythe, a government minister pivotal in the New Labour project, climaxing as a general election approaches.

Delightful, informative and sceptical – but never cynical – The Rights of Man And Fish nods to Voltaire, Günter Grass and Paul Torday’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, while maintaining a humour and breadth of vision entirely its own. Join Gisella as she finds out what makes the ideal society based on what she learns from a millennium of human error, intrigue and haute cuisine. Wittily illustrated by Pete Field, this work is a tour de force.

Congratulations to one of our regular contributors, Andy Hall, for winning the prestigious Trieste Photo Days award for best author. The competitions was judged by the renowned photographer Harry Gruyaert, who said:

'I chose this work because it's the kind of work I would have liked to have taken myself. His compositions stand out; he's pulling order from chaos and some of these images are truly powerful.'

Prospero in his cell busy indwelling, might have time to ponder the mystery of the myth that is Bob Dylan. He is concealed behind a dark blue velvet curtain embroidered in gold; Dylan with a megaphone standing on a stool, blown up from Minnesota.

Phil Hall

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