Video Games: Vidyan Ravinthiran’s Grun-tu-molani
Lisa Jardine’s excellent Worldly Goods challenges the view that galleries are secular temples, and that we should approach the tabernacle, the Holy of …
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Not Fade Away – Nikola Madzirov’s Remnants of Another Age
My great-grandfather, who hung through my childhood at the centre of a shrine tended by my great-aunt, now hangs in …
Robert Wrigley’s Soundings on the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog
The Poetry Trust’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog has updated with a close reading of Robert Wrigley’s Soundings, and you can …
Warm Leatherette: Robert Wrigley’s The Church of Omnivorous Light
The Church of Omnivorous Light, Robert Wrigley’s first UK publication, spans a lifetime’s writing and nine collections. At times, I …
Dancing in the Dhark – Imtiaz Dharker’s Leaving Fingerprints
Buy Leaving Fingerprints from Amazon On Berlin’s Bernauer Straße the wheat around The Chapel of Reconciliation was tanning in the summer …
An Olympic Struggle – Brian Turner’s Phantom Noise
Buy Phantom Noise from Bloodaxe Books Today, the Nigerien rower, Hamadou Djibo Issaka, dubbed ‘the sculling sloth’ by the UK’s …
A Watery Grave: Helen Dunmore’s The Malarkey
Buy The Malarkey from Amazon I’ll never forget waiting for that notorious cutpurses’ cash cow: Rome’s number 64 bus. Locals …
Songs of Innocence and Experience – Brian Turner’s Here Bullet
Buy Here, Bullet from Amazon.co.uk It was the embedded reporters who grabbed my attention during Operation Iraqi Freedom and its …
Poor Rude Lines 