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Video Games: Vidyan Ravinthiran’s Grun-tu-molani

October 15, 2014

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

September 22, 2013

My great-grandfather, who hung through my childhood at the centre of a shrine tended by my great-aunt, now hangs in …

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Robert Wrigley’s Soundings on the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog

September 7, 2013

The Poetry Trust’s Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Blog has updated with a close reading of Robert Wrigley’s Soundings, and you can …

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Warm Leatherette: Robert Wrigley’s The Church of Omnivorous Light

July 22, 2013

The Church of Omnivorous Light, Robert Wrigley’s first UK publication, spans a lifetime’s writing and nine collections. At times, I …

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Dancing in the Dhark – Imtiaz Dharker’s Leaving Fingerprints

August 7, 2012

Buy Leaving Fingerprints from Amazon On Berlin’s Bernauer Straße the wheat around The Chapel of Reconciliation was tanning in the summer …

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An Olympic Struggle – Brian Turner’s Phantom Noise

July 31, 2012

Buy Phantom Noise from Bloodaxe Books Today, the Nigerien rower, Hamadou Djibo Issaka, dubbed ‘the sculling sloth’ by the UK’s …

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A Watery Grave: Helen Dunmore’s The Malarkey

July 30, 2012

Buy The Malarkey from Amazon I’ll never forget waiting for that notorious cutpurses’ cash cow: Rome’s number 64 bus. Locals …

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Songs of Innocence and Experience – Brian Turner’s Here Bullet

July 23, 2012

Buy Here, Bullet from Amazon.co.uk It was the embedded reporters who grabbed my attention during Operation Iraqi Freedom and its …

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