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Category Archives: 2013

Chrissie Gittins’ Professor Heger’s Daughter

December 19, 2015

When the British Library published Love Letters: 2000 Years of Romance in 2012, national attention was drawn to 4 letters written …

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Among Angels – Kate Tempest’s Brand New Ancients

January 21, 2015

In the Old Testament, it was important to treat guests right – you could never be sure who they really were. …

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Land of Confusion: Heather Phillipson’s INSTANT-fLEX 718

December 17, 2014

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 …

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Dan O’Brien’s War Reporter

April 1, 2014

The Guardian’s coverage of the 2004 Madrid train bombings was the first time that I considered the burden shouldered by …

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Almost Lost My Mind – Melissa Lee-Houghton’s Beautiful Girls

December 30, 2013

In London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd writes that ‘London drives some of its citizens mad. A psychiatric survey in the …

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Please mind the gap – Hannah Silva’s Forms of Protest

December 22, 2013

How I willed Waterloo’s departures board to cascade into its flipping and clacking, although it was impossible to tell whether that first flip …

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Looking back

December 16, 2013

I have now posted for the last time to the 2013 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival blog. Thanks to The Poetry Trust …

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Into Dust – Jean Sprackland’s Sleeping Keys

December 13, 2013

Yves Marchand’s and Romain Meffre’s photographs of Detroit ended my day at lunchtime. The Sunday supplement they were selling printed …

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The Forward Arts Foundation’s Young Judges Competition

November 28, 2013

The trouble at mill back at UK education HQ’s been widely publicized. Sweeping changes are afoot across the curriculum, and …

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Since the wall fell

November 10, 2013

  Here’s the latest instalment of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival blog.

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