Act of Remembrance – Tom Duddy’s The Years
Roundabouts are disorientating – the work of the devil – and often I’ll have to orbit in a holding pattern to get …
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Wordless by Kevin Reid & George Szirtes
The dressing up box in my daughter’s room is dangerous. One moment I’m daddy but, sporting a witch’s hat, I’ll …
I Predict a Riot – Helen Mort’s Division Street
In Tony Harrison’s v., the Vs sprayed on the Harrison family grave in Holbeck Cemetery, Leeds, ‘are all the versuses …
Almost Lost My Mind – Melissa Lee-Houghton’s Beautiful Girls
In London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd writes that ‘London drives some of its citizens mad. A psychiatric survey in the …
Please mind the gap – Hannah Silva’s Forms of Protest
How I willed Waterloo’s departures board to cascade into its flipping and clacking, although it was impossible to tell whether that first flip …
Into Dust – Jean Sprackland’s Sleeping Keys
Yves Marchand’s and Romain Meffre’s photographs of Detroit ended my day at lunchtime. The Sunday supplement they were selling printed …
Living Doll – Robin Robertson’s Hill of Doors
For reasons of economy, our hair was cut in the kitchen with a bowl and scissors. Well, until a slip …
Tasting Notes – poems by Matthew Stewart
Matthew Stewart’s excellent pamphlet, Tasting Notes, has now been professionally produced as a short film. One of Matthew’s hopes was …
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 …
Danse Macabre – Katha Pollitt’s The Mind-Body Problem
As we stood filling the ashtray, a whey-faced seminarian dispensed advice about the forthcoming term at Rome’s Gregorian University. I …
Poor Rude Lines 