Love Crimes – Kevin Reid's Androgny
At primary school, confession, or, in Catholic parlance, the sacrament of reconciliation, was little more than our means to obtain …
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Chrissie Gittins’ Sharp Hills
This evening, I stood shoulder to shoulder at the sink with my father as we cleaned up after dinner. I’d …
Pure Heroine – Rachel Piercey’s Disappointing Alice
Social media, we are told, defines who girls want to be – or at least who they want to look …
Rebecca Tamás – Witch
On Friday the 21st August, 1829, The Times reported on the case of Jean Sabathé. His child was gravely ill. …
Kevin Reid’s Burdlife
Its high pitch and speed makes birdsong feel utterly alien. However, Marcus Coates’s stunning installation, ‘Dawn Chorus‘, closes that distance. …
Let’s talk about sex, baby – Jennifer Copley’s Some Couples
Suede’s debut single, ‘The Drowners’, enacts a war between Butler’s masculine, strident rhythm guitar and the androgyny of Anderson’s lyrics …
I’m a Bitch – David Kinloch’s Some Women
This morning, I’m thrilled to fill the guest blogger slot on Anthony Wilson’s poetry blog, where I write about the …
Blue Dress: Ryan Van Winkle’s The Good Dark
Ryan Van Winkle’s second collection, The Good Dark, opens in style with The Duke in Pines.
Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors: Tamar Yoseloff’s A Formula For Night: New and Selected Poems
Damien Hirst, ‘For the Love of God’, 2007, platinum, diamonds and human teeth, 171, 127, 190 mm (photo credit: Ilona Gaynor) …
Loneliness is a gun – Todd Swift’s The Ministry of Emergency Situations: Selected Poems
Loneliness is a gun The loudest silence in your day dying to meet you The cassettes my dad collected with …
Poor Rude Lines 