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Devil’s Haircut: Carmina Masoliver’s Nasty Little Intro #8

April 8, 2015

Sainsbury’s can sell your daughter a beautician’s outfit but not a lab coat and stethoscope. Although I’d always known that …

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Theatre of Blood – Chris McCabe’s Speculatrix

April 6, 2015

Oxford’s Golden Cross is a Pizza Express now but the interior decor points to its Tudor pedigree. Outside, the square …

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The Scottish Poetry Library needs your money

March 9, 2015

Byron rowed his own gondola to the island of San Lazzaro to learn Armenian but, standing in the monastery’s climate-controlled manuscript …

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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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Among Angels – Kate Tempest’s Brand New Ancients

January 21, 2015

In the Old Testament, it was important to treat guests right – you could never be sure who they really were. …

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Sympathy for the Devil – Mark Waldron’s The Brand New Dark

January 11, 2015

The slings and arrows of Hamlet’s existential crisis would have it that conscience makes cowards of us all and that …

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Instagram for the soul – Sam Willetts’ New Light for the Old Dark

December 28, 2014

Originally posted on Poor Rude Lines:
Robin Redbreast There was always something cringeworthy about family snaps. As Philip Larkin says in Lines…

Jane Yeh’s The Ninjas

December 22, 2014

Wandering Stirling Castle this summer, I kept my camera(phone) holstered. In a baronial hall, holidaymakers queued to pose in a high-backed-chair-cum …

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Land of Confusion: Heather Phillipson’s INSTANT-fLEX 718

December 17, 2014

Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock was my first encounter zeugma. Blink and you miss it. Belinda, our flaky heroine, applies war-paint for …

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Butcher’s Dog

December 11, 2014

I’m lucky if I’ve got the milk and nappies to see me through the day and, where I once tried to stem the rising tide …

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