Town Called Malice – Formerly by Tamar Yoseloff and Vici MacDonald
In the days before mobility scooters, it was the ornaments and the net curtains, running in ribbons along the terraces …
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Beautiful Strange – Chrissy Williams’ Flying Into the Bear
It’s just easier to think in shorthand. Certain brands – political, commercial, or artistic, trigger knee-jerk reactions of love, or …
Time of No Reply – Fiona Moore’s The Only Reason for Time
When my phone buzzed on that July morning, its screen read SOMETHING’S HAPPENED. DON’T WORRY. I’M OK. The brevity of …
Generation Sex – John Hartley Williams’ Pistol Sonnets
Training to be a priest in Rome, St Peter’s Basilica inspired awe and reverence. It wasn’t just because the dome …
Strange Boat – AF Harrold’s The Point of Inconvenience
On passing through Warminster on our routine pilgrimage to my granny’s house, I hoped for red lights and a short queue. …
The child is grown, the dream is gone – Hugo Williams’ West End Final
Twice a day, I studied the cigarette stubber riveted to the melamine back of the bus seat. Ash threw the …
The filth and the fury – Tony Harrison’s v.
As BBC Radio 4 broadcasted a 25th anniversary version of .v, read by Harrison himself, the event rekindled the media’s …
Wish You Were Here – Tamar Yoseloff’s The City With Horns
It doesn’t take long to contract cultural flu in Rome. ‘That fountain’s by Bernini, you say? Show me one which …
And God Created Woman – Stephanie Leal’s Metrophobia
As the Authorized Version of the Bible came off the press in 1611, the poet, Aemilia Lanyer, was not prepared …
The whole of the moon – Where Rockets Burn Through, edited by Russell Jones
In the days when video games were packaged in cassette boxes, their lurid covers promised adolescents the sort of ultra-violence …
