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Love Crimes – Kevin Reid's Androgny

March 31, 2020

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

January 2, 2020

This evening, I stood shoulder to shoulder at the sink with my father as we cleaned up after dinner. I’d …

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Pure Heroine – Rachel Piercey’s Disappointing Alice

June 22, 2019

Social media, we are told, defines who girls want to be – or at least who they want to look …

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Rebecca Tamás – Witch

April 2, 2019

On Friday the 21st August, 1829, The Times reported on the case of Jean Sabathé. His child was gravely ill. …

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Kevin Reid’s Burdlife

July 4, 2018

Its high pitch and speed makes birdsong feel utterly alien. However, Marcus Coates’s stunning installation, ‘Dawn Chorus‘, closes that distance. …

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Let’s talk about sex, baby – Jennifer Copley’s Some Couples

February 21, 2018

Suede’s debut single, ‘The Drowners’, enacts a war between Butler’s masculine, strident rhythm guitar and the androgyny of Anderson’s lyrics …

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I’m a Bitch – David Kinloch’s Some Women

April 14, 2016

This morning, I’m thrilled to fill the guest blogger slot on Anthony Wilson’s poetry blog, where I write about the …

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Blue Dress: Ryan Van Winkle’s The Good Dark

April 10, 2016

Ryan Van Winkle’s second collection, The Good Dark, opens in style with The Duke in Pines.

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Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors: Tamar Yoseloff’s A Formula For Night: New and Selected Poems

February 20, 2016

Damien Hirst, ‘For the Love of God’, 2007, platinum, diamonds and human teeth, 171, 127, 190 mm (photo credit: Ilona Gaynor) …

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Loneliness is a gun – Todd Swift’s The Ministry of Emergency Situations: Selected Poems

December 22, 2015

Loneliness is a gun The loudest silence in your day dying to meet you The cassettes my dad collected with …

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