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 …
Category Archives: 2012
The last day of our acquaintance – Sharon Olds’ Stag’s Leap
Titian – Venus and Adonis (detail) – (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In his Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare’s goddess attempts to seduce the …
Poetry by Heart
Poetry by Heart is a recitation competition which launches in British schools this month. The competition, funded in part by …
Living in a box – Sean Borodale’s Bee Journal
It began as an idle thrumbing, blending with the shiver of the branches. The path ahead looked the same as …
Ruined in a day – Jacob Polley’s The Havocs
Alan Bennett‘s new play, People, closes with the line ‘Let lost be lost. Let gone be gone, and not fetched back.’ …
I am a Camera – Paul Farley’s The Dark Film
I was content to sit on the pebbles, lit by the heatless fluorescence of the winter sun and enjoying the …
This must be underwater love – Richard Meier’s Misadventure
Cleaning the roof of my narrowboat one morning, I slipped and cartwheeled into the Thames. Despite my love of rivers, …
Take up your cross and follow me – Andrew Motion’s The Customs House
If you’re ever on the A34 near Basingstoke, then consider stopping at Burghclere. The main road is unchanged since painted …
In vino veritas – Matthew Stewart’s Tasting Notes
Only someone who follows no football can understand the feelings of confusion and fear that accompany the convergence of their …
Howl, howl, howl! Paul Durcan’s Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have my Being
You lash out at the strange and frightening; you lack the ability to control your bowels; you’re helpless and depend upon …
