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Category Archives: 2013

Do You Realize?? – D. Nurkse’s A Night in Brooklyn

June 23, 2013

Watching horror films, I nestle my tongue into the roof of my mouth for fear of biting it off. Whether …

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Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Kevin Reid’s Body Voices

May 28, 2013

‘I am long and pink. At first I am hard but, when you bang me, I go soft’.* I suppose …

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Beautiful Strange – Chrissy Williams’ Flying Into the Bear

April 16, 2013

It’s just easier to think in shorthand. Certain brands – political, commercial, or artistic, trigger knee-jerk reactions of love, or …

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Time of No Reply – Fiona Moore’s The Only Reason for Time

April 10, 2013

When my phone buzzed on that July morning, its screen read SOMETHING’S HAPPENED. DON’T WORRY. I’M OK. The brevity of …

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The Real Thing – Booksellers, not retail sales assistants

March 29, 2013

Today’s Guardian reports that Amazon Marketplace is hiking its fees up for third-party traders. In a piece published in the same …

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Strange Boat – AF Harrold’s The Point of Inconvenience

March 24, 2013

On passing through Warminster on our routine pilgrimage to my granny’s house, I hoped for red lights and a short queue. …

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The filth and the fury – Tony Harrison’s v.

February 25, 2013

As BBC Radio 4 broadcasted a 25th anniversary version of .v, read by Harrison himself, the event rekindled the media’s …

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