Sympathy for the Devil – Mark Waldron’s The Brand New Dark
The slings and arrows of Hamlet’s existential crisis would have it that conscience makes cowards of us all and that …
Category Archives: 2008
All you need is love – Mark Doty’s Theories and Apparitions
My childhood soft toy, a blue waistcoated Peter Rabbit, is a mess. You might expect him to be threadbare after …
Belfast Child – Leontia Flynn’s Drives
I was standing at the counter of a Belfast tourist office watching as a biro was waved over a map. …
Insult to Injury – Simon Armitage’s The Not Dead
An officer, fresh from Helmand, played us the mobile phone footage: the excited chatter and the puny rifle cracks were alien …
Lingerie in London – Me and the Dead by Katy Evans-Bush
Buy Me and the Dead from Salt To live on a narrowboat is to live in a world of either …
