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No Poetry
Poet Duncan Forbes surveys the poetic marketplace. Poets seek readers, above all, but they wouldn’t mind a bit of money…
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At The Edge Of The World
At one of the very edges of human habitation, Kathleen Jones confronts the limits of what a writer can say.…
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The Stylophile
Poet Gerry Cambridge tells the story of his lifelong love of fountain pens. Poets love associations, says Gerry Cambridge. And…
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Murthering Your Dowsabells
Tobias Jones wrote his latest novel using sixteenth-century English. The 1549 ‘Prayer Book Rebellion’ was a revolt against the imposition…
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In Bedlam
Visiting the Bethlem Royal Hospital archives allowed Miranda Miller to enter into the world of a nineteenth-century asylum. The artist…
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The Historical Hunch
Jan Marsh looks into the murkier depths of historical non-fiction. Jan Marsh came to believe she had discovered the real-life…
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The Animal Inside
Christie Dickason explores the deep connections between humans and animals — and the consequences of loss. As humans, we see…
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Where Did The Good Graffiti Go?
Chris Simms mourns a vanishing form of public writing. ‘Sharp comments in everyday settings’ is how Chris Simms defines graffiti.…
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Resuscitating The Zombies
Rupert Christiansen picks through literary classics that narrowly avoided being consigned to the living death of non-publication. Every writer has…
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Red Tallinn
Ian Thomson sails to Estonia in search of his mother’s Soviet childhood. Ian Thomson’s mother and her best friend both…
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Chambers Of Inspiration
Clare Colvin explores the hidden rooms that have inspired historical novels. The strange, diminutive ‘dwarf’s apartment’ in Mantua’s Ducal Palace…
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Staples Not Allowed
Jane Corry reflects on her time ‘inside’, as writer-in-residence at a high-security prison. Prison changes you, it is said. It…