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Category Archives: HappenStance Press

Richard Meier’s After the Miracle

October 29, 2025

Broad Street was in summer mode: conga lines of language students sporting identical backpacks following the sign of the brolly …

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World in Motion—Matthew Stewart’s ‘Whatever you do, just don’t’

December 21, 2023

I was lent a copy of Eduardo Galeano’s Football in Sun and Shadow by a friend. She attempted to convey …

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Pure Heroine – Rachel Piercey’s Disappointing Alice

June 22, 2019

Social media, we are told, defines who girls want to be – or at least who they want to look …

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Piercing the Veil: Fiona Moore’s The Distal Point

July 24, 2018

The Scottish National Portrait Gallery was just a refuge from the pipers and Fringe flyers on Princes Street, so I …

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Let’s talk about sex, baby – Jennifer Copley’s Some Couples

February 21, 2018

Suede’s debut single, ‘The Drowners’, enacts a war between Butler’s masculine, strident rhythm guitar and the androgyny of Anderson’s lyrics …

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Back to Black -Charlotte Gann’s Noir

October 25, 2017

Setting the tropes of film noir aside for a moment, Raymond Chandler’s iconic sleuth, Philip Marlowe, feels more like Eliot’s Tiresias: …

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I’m a Bitch – David Kinloch’s Some Women

April 14, 2016

This morning, I’m thrilled to fill the guest blogger slot on Anthony Wilson’s poetry blog, where I write about the …

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Helena Nelson’s How (Not) to Get your Poetry Published

March 6, 2016

You’ve never seen a soul playing football. You never read about it. You are unaware of its rules, or even of the …

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Dream Attack: Fiona Moore’s Night Letter

November 1, 2015

I was once awoken in the dead of night by the kitchen knives. Not by the cutlery but the other …

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Jo Field’s The Anglesey Leg

February 18, 2015

Watching the Sky journalist, Colin Brazier, picking through a suitcase at the crime scene / crash site of Malaysia Airlines …

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