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Category Archives: 2008

Sympathy for the Devil – Mark Waldron’s The Brand New Dark

January 11, 2015

The slings and arrows of Hamlet’s existential crisis would have it that conscience makes cowards of us all and that …

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All you need is love – Mark Doty’s Theories and Apparitions

October 28, 2012

My childhood soft toy, a blue waistcoated Peter Rabbit, is a mess. You might expect him to be threadbare after …

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Belfast Child – Leontia Flynn’s Drives

October 17, 2012

I was standing at the counter of a Belfast tourist office watching as a biro was waved over a map. …

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Insult to Injury – Simon Armitage’s The Not Dead

September 19, 2012

An officer, fresh from Helmand, played us the mobile phone footage: the excited chatter and the puny rifle cracks were alien …

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Lingerie in London – Me and the Dead by Katy Evans-Bush

August 14, 2012

Buy Me and the Dead from Salt To live on a narrowboat is to live in a world of either …

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