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Shalimar by Davina Quinlivan
Book Review – May 2022 Years on, the boy will think about the mangoes again when his daughter is all grown up and he is seven decades old and dying of cancer. He will know that his lungs are failing … Continue reading
Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair
Book Review – April 2022 She knew now what had happened to her. She was afraid of Harding Powell; and it was her fear that had cried to her to go, to get away from him. The awful thing was … Continue reading
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Tagged eerie, feminism, Freud, Gresford, modernism, psychotherapy, uncanny
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Rocketman by Lizzy Laurance
Through songs I dreamt the stories of the boat, listening to its sounds and its silences. Rocketman is the debut album of London-based sound artist and composer, Lizzy Laurance. To work on her project, Lizzy took up temporary residence in … Continue reading
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Tagged album, boat, Copenhagen, Music, review, soundscape, toxic masculinity, voice
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The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic by Sara Wheeler
Book Review – March 2022 Herds of reindeer move across ice and snow. Slim-shouldered Lapps squatting on skidoos nose their animals towards an arc of stockades. A man in a corral holds a pair of velvet antlers while another jabs … Continue reading
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
Book Review – March 2022 My creativity can be traced back to my heritage, to the skin colour that defined how I was perceived. But, like my ancestors, I wouldn’t accept defeat. Manifesto is part memoir and part handbook providing … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, literature, London, memoir, racism, review, the creative process
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In the Pines by Paul Scraton and Eymelt Sehmer
Book Review – January 2022 What else lives here, among these trees? You recall the stories, your father’s gentle voice. There was no need to shout in the forest, he said, as he explained all the living beings that … Continue reading
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Tagged Berlin, collodian, collodian wet plate, forest, Germany, Photography, trees, wood
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John Bull Redux
The United Kingdom left the European Union almost two years ago, but apparently everything that befalls us is still the EU’s fault. There is a British, or more specifically English, attitude to the rest of Europe that William Hazlitt succinctly … Continue reading
The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Book Review – January 2022 It was an enchanted palace, She must try to find a way in! It was bound to be full of curious passages and doorways – and she must get in. It looked so extraordinary that … Continue reading
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Tagged allegory, book review, childhood, lyricism, Norway, waterfall, winter
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Play Power by Richard Neville
Book Review – January 2022 Those most caught up in the syndrome of work/family/machine/sport/success/failure/guilt… are those most outraged by the evolving Underground alternative. Fifteen I … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative society, Books, counter culture, London, review, Underground
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