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Tag Archives: 2012

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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I Predict a Riot – Helen Mort’s Division Street

January 26, 2014

In Tony Harrison’s v., the Vs sprayed on the Harrison family grave in Holbeck Cemetery, Leeds, ‘are all the versuses …

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Tasting Notes – poems by Matthew Stewart

October 7, 2013

Matthew Stewart’s excellent pamphlet, Tasting Notes, has now been professionally produced as a short film. One of Matthew’s hopes was …

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Danse Macabre – Katha Pollitt’s The Mind-Body Problem

August 26, 2013

As we stood filling the ashtray, a whey-faced seminarian dispensed advice about the forthcoming term at Rome’s Gregorian University. I …

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Voulez-vous coucher avec moi? Shazea Quraishi’s The Courtesans Reply

August 21, 2013

When I admit to reading almost nothing in translation, people are unimpressed, and I admit it: they have a good …

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The Drowners – Kim Moore’s If We Could Speak Like Wolves

August 16, 2013

I eventually looked through the bedroom window, towards the source of the noise, and a ghost, street lit in Thames …

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Full fathom five – Richie McCaffery’s Spinning Plates

July 29, 2013

On clearing my great aunt’s house, my parents presented me with her ACME Thunderer. She was a teacher from the …

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Man in the Mirror – Ben Parker’s The Escape Artists

May 30, 2013

It’s difficult to pin down what exactly it is about a George Shaw that’s so disconcerting. At one level, there’s …

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Generation Sex – John Hartley Williams’ Pistol Sonnets

April 5, 2013

Training to be a priest in Rome, St Peter’s Basilica inspired awe and reverence. It wasn’t just because the dome …

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The whole of the moon – Where Rockets Burn Through, edited by Russell Jones

January 28, 2013

In the days when video games were packaged in cassette boxes, their lurid covers promised adolescents the sort of ultra-violence …

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