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 …
Category Archives: 2009
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 …
Animal Lover – Eleanor Rees’ Eliza and the Bear
During the day, our cathedrals rarely feel like spiritual places: the turnstiles, shops and tea rooms in the narthex are …
The Unforgettable Fire – Anthony Owen’s My Father’s Eyes Were Blue
As we’d travelled to Würzburg to visit friends, there had been no mugging up in a guidebook beforehand. It felt …
Cigarettes and Alcohol – John Hartley Williams’ Café des Artistes
The world’s weirder than we imagine. On a whim, I drove to the Uffington White Horse for the winter solstice. …
Dancing in the Dhark – Imtiaz Dharker’s Leaving Fingerprints
Buy Leaving Fingerprints from Amazon On Berlin’s Bernauer Straße the wheat around The Chapel of Reconciliation was tanning in the summer …
Braiding a windowpane – Don Paterson’s Rain
Buy Rain from Faber and Faber A friend of mine who was born and bred in Reading, a place whose …
This scepter’d isle: Andrew Motion’s The Cinder Path
Buy The Cinder Path from Faber and Faber On Andrew Motion‘s last night as Poet Laureate he decided to return …
Olivia Cole – Restricted View
Buy Restricted View from Salt Publishing Olivia Cole’s Restricted View explores, amongst other things, the pleasures and frustrations of perspective. …
Poor Rude Lines 