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Category Archives: 2014

Urban Hymns – Joseph Horgan’s & Antony Owen’s The Year I Loved England

June 1, 2014

BEFORE THE RAIN CAME Our ring road is a forced marriage of IKEA sky once held together by medieval beams. …

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Counting the Stars: Richard Osmond’s Variant Air

May 18, 2014

Curtal sonnet on the curtal sonnet In crystal, snowflakes, frost, a tight-furled   sunflower’s spiral of hulls, a floret     of broccoli’s …

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Find the River – Tom Chivers’ Flood Drain

April 15, 2014

Oxford’s Donnington Bridge had a witty voice. As the university’s boat clubs fought for supremacy, they’d paint its arches, often with …

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No Bulb in my Lamp: Selected Diary Sketches 2004 – 2014

April 12, 2014

You’ll know my brother’s work from Poor Rude Lines’ masthead. His images have also graced various posts and the About …

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My bloody valentine – Richard Osmond’s Shill

April 10, 2014

I’ll not succumb to the radiation emanating from the cultural Chernobyl that is Disneyland Paris just because I’m a parent. …

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History Repeating: David Attwooll’s & Andrew Walton’s Ground Work

April 3, 2014

Back in prehistory, before we started buying music online, early adopters had to copy and paste album artwork (from a niche website …

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Amplified Heart – Sue Rose’s Heart Archives

March 3, 2014

I surfaced gently from sleep and, for a befuddled moment, stretched and relaxed. Then I noticed that I was lying …

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Act of Remembrance – Tom Duddy’s The Years

February 24, 2014

Roundabouts are disorientating – the work of the devil – and often I’ll have to orbit in a holding pattern to get …

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Wordless by Kevin Reid & George Szirtes

February 18, 2014

The dressing up box in my daughter’s room is dangerous. One moment I’m daddy but, sporting a witch’s hat, I’ll …

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