Urban Hymns – Joseph Horgan’s & Antony Owen’s The Year I Loved England
BEFORE THE RAIN CAME Our ring road is a forced marriage of IKEA sky once held together by medieval beams. …
Category Archives: 2014
Counting the Stars: Richard Osmond’s Variant Air
Curtal sonnet on the curtal sonnet In crystal, snowflakes, frost, a tight-furled sunflower’s spiral of hulls, a floret of broccoli’s …
Find the River – Tom Chivers’ Flood Drain
Oxford’s Donnington Bridge had a witty voice. As the university’s boat clubs fought for supremacy, they’d paint its arches, often with …
No Bulb in my Lamp: Selected Diary Sketches 2004 – 2014
You’ll know my brother’s work from Poor Rude Lines’ masthead. His images have also graced various posts and the About …
My bloody valentine – Richard Osmond’s Shill
I’ll not succumb to the radiation emanating from the cultural Chernobyl that is Disneyland Paris just because I’m a parent. …
History Repeating: David Attwooll’s & Andrew Walton’s Ground Work
Back in prehistory, before we started buying music online, early adopters had to copy and paste album artwork (from a niche website …
Amplified Heart – Sue Rose’s Heart Archives
I surfaced gently from sleep and, for a befuddled moment, stretched and relaxed. Then I noticed that I was lying …
Act of Remembrance – Tom Duddy’s The Years
Roundabouts are disorientating – the work of the devil – and often I’ll have to orbit in a holding pattern to get …
Wordless by Kevin Reid & George Szirtes
The dressing up box in my daughter’s room is dangerous. One moment I’m daddy but, sporting a witch’s hat, I’ll …
