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Category Archives: 2012

The whole of the moon – Where Rockets Burn Through, edited by Russell Jones

January 28, 2013

In the days when video games were packaged in cassette boxes, their lurid covers promised adolescents the sort of ultra-violence …

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The last day of our acquaintance – Sharon Olds’ Stag’s Leap

January 14, 2013

Titian – Venus and Adonis (detail) – (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In his Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare’s goddess attempts to seduce the …

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Poetry by Heart

January 10, 2013

Poetry by Heart is a recitation competition which launches in British schools this month. The competition, funded in part by …

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Living in a box – Sean Borodale’s Bee Journal

January 3, 2013

It began as an idle thrumbing, blending with the shiver of the branches. The path ahead looked the same as …

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Ruined in a day – Jacob Polley’s The Havocs

December 20, 2012

Alan Bennett‘s new play, People, closes with the line ‘Let lost be lost. Let gone be gone, and not fetched back.’ …

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I am a Camera – Paul Farley’s The Dark Film

December 15, 2012

I was content to sit on the pebbles, lit by the heatless fluorescence of the winter sun and enjoying the …

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This must be underwater love – Richard Meier’s Misadventure

December 3, 2012

Cleaning the roof of my narrowboat one morning, I slipped and cartwheeled into the Thames. Despite my love of rivers, …

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Take up your cross and follow me – Andrew Motion’s The Customs House

November 26, 2012

If you’re ever on the A34 near Basingstoke, then consider stopping at Burghclere. The main road is unchanged since painted …

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In vino veritas – Matthew Stewart’s Tasting Notes

October 21, 2012

Only someone who follows no football can understand the feelings of confusion and fear that accompany the convergence of their …

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Howl, howl, howl! Paul Durcan’s Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have my Being

October 7, 2012

You lash out at the strange and frightening; you lack the ability to control your bowels; you’re helpless and depend upon …

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