Chrissie Gittins’ Professor Heger’s Daughter
When the British Library published Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance in 2012, national attention was drawn to 4 letters written …
Category Archives: 2013
Among Angels – Kate Tempest’s Brand New Ancients
In the Old Testament, it was important to treat guests right – you could never be sure who they really were. …
Land of Confusion: Heather Phillipson’s INSTANT-fLEX 718
Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was my first encounter zeugma. Blink and you miss it. Belinda, our flaky heroine, applies war-paint for …
Dan O’Brien’s War Reporter
The Guardian’s coverage of the 2004 Madrid train bombings was the first time that I considered the burden shouldered by …
Almost Lost My Mind – Melissa Lee-Houghton’s Beautiful Girls
In London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd writes that ‘London drives some of its citizens mad. A psychiatric survey in the …
Please mind the gap – Hannah Silva’s Forms of Protest
How I willed Waterloo’s departures board to cascade into its flipping and clacking, although it was impossible to tell whether that first flip …
Looking back
I have now posted for the last time to the 2013 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival blog. Thanks to The Poetry Trust …
Into Dust – Jean Sprackland’s Sleeping Keys
Yves Marchand’s and Romain Meffre’s photographs of Detroit ended my day at lunchtime. The Sunday supplement they were selling printed …
The Forward Arts Foundation’s Young Judges Competition
The trouble at mill back at UK education HQ’s been widely publicized. Sweeping changes are afoot across the curriculum, and …
Since the wall fell
Here’s the latest instalment of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival blog.
Poor Rude Lines 