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Thursday 26 September 2024
Review by Jonathan Wilkins of "Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)" by Pippa Goldschmidt
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This is an extraordinary, inventive canon of work, made even more incredible in that all the stories are so unusual, so challenging, as th...
Wednesday 25 September 2024
Review by Elizabeth Chell of "Just This Side of Seaworthy and Other Poems" and "Rock, Paper, Scissors and Other Poems" by Cathi Rae
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Cathi Rae’s collection of poems Just This Side of Seaworthy explores the complexities of ageing and mental illness and the forging of new...
Tuesday 17 September 2024
Review by Jonathan Wilkins of "Mo(u)rning Rituals" by Heidi Slettedahl
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This book is what it says, carefully hidden by brackets: a mourning for lost children, a mourning of the past. Mo(u)rning Rituals is a hear...
Sunday 15 September 2024
Review by Shanta Acharya of "Between A Drowning Man" by Martyn Crucefix
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The ‘Invitation’ ‘to talk / about difference/ with its ambiguous / double birth’ at the beginning of two thought provoking sequences of poem...
Sunday 8 September 2024
Review by Omar Sabbagh of "My Hummingbird Father" by Pascale Petit
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In the later 1930s Ford Madox Ford was asked by one of his writing students, Robert Lowell, what the one essential need was for an aspiring ...
Wednesday 4 September 2024
Review by Rennie Parker of "The Apothecary of Flight" by Jane Burn
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I was glad to receive this collection for review, and it more than lives up to the promise of Burn's first collection, Be Feared , her m...
Thursday 29 August 2024
Review by Doryn Herbst of "The Headland" by Abi Curtis
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This is a speculative novel running along two timelines: the aftermath of the Great Storm in southern England, 1987, and events that unfold ...
Wednesday 28 August 2024
Review by Rebecca Reynolds of "Write Cut Rewrite" Exhibition at the Weston Library
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"Kill your darlings," enjoined Stephen King, talking of the need for writers to cut words which may have taken hours to develop. T...
Tuesday 27 August 2024
Review by Tracey Foster of "The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience" by Jennifer Higgie
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The act of self-reflection is an indulgence and one that women throughout history have seldom had the opportunity to do, more often being th...
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