Pure Heroine – Rachel Piercey’s Disappointing Alice
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
The Scottish National Portrait Gallery was just a refuge from the pipers and Fringe flyers on Princes Street, so I …
Let’s talk about sex, baby – Jennifer Copley’s Some Couples
Suede’s debut single, ‘The Drowners’, enacts a war between Butler’s masculine, strident rhythm guitar and the androgyny of Anderson’s lyrics …
Back to Black -Charlotte Gann’s Noir
Setting the tropes of film noir aside for a moment, Raymond Chandler’s iconic sleuth, Philip Marlowe, feels more like Eliot’s Tiresias: …
I’m a Bitch – David Kinloch’s Some Women
This morning, I’m thrilled to fill the guest blogger slot on Anthony Wilson’s poetry blog, where I write about the …
Helena Nelson’s How (Not) to Get your Poetry Published
You’ve never seen a soul playing football. You never read about it. You are unaware of its rules, or even of the …
Dream Attack: Fiona Moore’s Night Letter
I was once awoken in the dead of night by the kitchen knives. Not by the cutlery but the other …
Jo Field’s The Anglesey Leg
Watching the Sky journalist, Colin Brazier, picking through a suitcase at the crime scene / crash site of Malaysia Airlines …
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 …
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. …
Poor Rude Lines 