As I settled down in my living room on Wednesday night to watch Eileen Myles chat to Rosa Campbell about their new novel on writing and craft titled For Now, I feared that I might be a tad disappointed with the live discussion. Whilst I am a huge fan of Myles, the topic of discussion […]
Whilst there is an unspeakable number of things wrong with the world, perhaps one more underlying problem can be generally agreed on as the speed of life. Too fast, overwhelmingly so, and arguably the source of all wrongs from climate change to rising mental illness. A line from Kae Tempest’s piece ‘Hold Your Own’: I […]
Oh, Hello. C’mon in. You know I was just thinking about how you’ve Always thought I was cool… And here I am, cooking fishcakes and broccoli. I didn’t know how I could re-present all this for you. This is where I’m really at. Nothing’s As fetching as the raw. I heard the dog barking on […]
If you read the premise for Pieces of Me, it is easy to become skeptical that the novel exists simply as an overly romanticised love story smack bang in the middle of a conflict which is in no way romantic. Emma, our protagonist, meets her husband Adam in the International Zone in Baghdad, in the […]
Poetry Circus fill the Bongo Club (an interesting yet not poor choice in venue for a spoken word night) with a sea of cabaret costumes: sequins, lipstick, coloured hair and stiletto heel glamour. As the audience takes their seats and the show begins, a soaring love song accompanies our opening film, a short tour through […]