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Monday, 2 December 2024
Interview with Louise Powell
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Dr Louise Powell is an award-winning working-class writer from Middlesbrough. She is the winner of the Sid Chaplin Northern Writer’s Award 2...
Saturday, 16 November 2024
Review by Kathleen Bell of "The Iliad" by Homer, trans. Emily Wilson
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Some months ago, when I was half-way through Emily Wilson’s new translation of The Iliad , I had to set it aside. This is not a criticism of...
Friday, 15 November 2024
Review by Mike O'Driscoll of "The Study of Sleep and Other Stories" by Brian Howell
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What a pleasant surprise to find that Brian Howell is still writing and publishing fiction. I first came across him years ago in UK literary...
Sunday, 10 November 2024
Review by Sally Shaw of "A Physical Education" by Jonathan Taylor
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A Physical Education: On Bullying, Discipline & Other Lessons is a book of memoir, interwoven with literary, film, drama and social sci...
Wednesday, 6 November 2024
Review by James Nash of "Remembering" by Julie Gardner
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This is a tender and moving collection celebrating and memorialising two lives, the poet’s mother and her own husband, but succeeding, as al...
Tuesday, 29 October 2024
Review by Tracey Foster of "The Gallows Pole" by Benjamin Myers
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Much has been written about the pros and cons of using slang in fiction. It's a difficult act to pull off, if your audience cannot under...
Sunday, 27 October 2024
Review by Debasish Lahiri of "Endless Present: Selected Articles, Reviews and Dispatches, 2010-23" by Rory Waterman
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Criticism, like poetry, cannot be written at arm’s length. At least not the best. The critic has to suffer the imperilment of the artist: en...
Friday, 25 October 2024
Review by Peter Raynard of "After the Rites and Sandwiches" by Kathy Pimlott
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Kathy Pimlott’s heart-breaking pamphlet, After the Rites and Sandwiches , portrays the impact of her husband’s sudden death from falling d...
Thursday, 24 October 2024
Review by Christine Hammond of "Citizen Poet" by Eavan Boland
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Last week, Trinity College Dublin announced plans to re-name its main library after the highly acclaimed Irish poet, Eavan Boland. Consequen...
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