Poetry, Fiction, Review and Essays
Mind the Gap is a poetry podcast. Each month an ensemble of spoken word artists send recordings of their poetry to Angela Dye: she collates and orders them, a conductor to a discordant, disparate orchestra, allowing their words to enhance each other, the strong and experienced nurturing and reinforcing the weak, together unifying into a …
I am a Pathological introvert. Talking to people scares me. I can do it, but I do not seek it out. I’ve got quite good at asking humans questions about their health, hobbies, kids, holidays, then pulling a face that indicates interest, or even, on good days, a rough facsimile of enjoyment. Took me hours …
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The Pantser The freedom to create without the confines of a plan. Famous pantsers include such authors as Margaret Atwood, Stephen King and Pierce Brown. Melissa Todd is a compulsive pantser. Do you know what you’re going to write before you’ve written it? I don’t. I can’t plan anything. Well, I can, but I can …
The Shape of a Tulip Bird Christopher HopkinISBN; UnavailablePrice €12.99Available from the publisherClare Song Bird There are many poetry collections that deal exclusively in loss and grief. Usually they reflect on the life lived, eulogising the person lost, as well as examining the impact their death has on loved ones. Christopher Hopkins’ The Shape of …
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Tobias Radloff was awarded the Daniil Pashkoff Prize for his short story “Nobody loves you like I do”.
The trick to Writing is… I’m writing this on a train. I’m at the start of a three hour train journey, and I’ve brought nothing to amuse me but pen and paper. There’s my phone, of course, but it’s switched off and hidden at the bottom of my bag. Increasingly I find this the only …
ON WATCHING A LEMON SAIL THE SEA BY MAGGIE HARRIS (Cane Arrow Press) I had the luck to watch Maggie Harris launch this collection at Tongue Punch, the Tom Thumb theatre’s monthly poetry night in Margate. The lilting cadences of her not-quite-placeable accent gave a glide and a swoop to her words, sending them soaring …
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Culture in the 21st century is increasingly visual, and information moves faster than ever before, while snap judgments are becoming more and more the norm; even music intros have reportedly declined in length from an average of 20 seconds to less than five seconds per track since the 1980s, in response, reportedly, to the impatient …
She paused at the door, smoothing her hair and skirt, checking her reflection in the glass: no new spots, OK, a little shiny, but perhaps that was acceptable, even fetching? Too late to fix it, anyway: his bulky bald form was on its way to the door. Her dad’s new house. His and his stupid …
