Author’s Note: * = Footnote ‘I am quite contented for myself–not as idle as formerly, altogether as hearty and having…
Announcement: Beta Reading Services
Summary I am delighted to announce that I am now offering my beta reading services on Fiverr. A beta reader…
Vulvas in Milk: On The Dreamers (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci) and Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Author’s Note: I am now offering my services on Fiverr. I will beta read your poem(s) and short stories for…
The Octopus Who Dismembered Love
After ‘Incarnations of Burned Children’ by David Foster Wallace The half-chewed octopus lay like a tumour on the gold-rimmed dinner…
Poetry Postmortem #11: Three Women by Sylvia Plath
‘I am a garden of black and red agonies.’ In a maternity ward, three women contemplate their lives, the brutality…
Play Excerpt: The Change by Courtenay Schembri Gray
“I’ll lie here when I’m a ghost and smoke ghost cigarettes and watch ye earthlin’s goin’ about yeer pointless days.”-Marina…
April ’25: Hair Moss and Partridgeberry
Books: The Journals of John Cheever (carries over)TV: Celebrity Big Brother & Black MirrorTheatre: The Other Place (National Theatre at…
March ’25: Can You Smell The Cigars?
Books: Letters of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes and Christopher Reid & Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year’s Turning by…
The Ambition Bird: Fiona Larkin and The Poetry Society
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Violette Leduc’s ‘The Lady and the Little Fox Fur & the Art of Distance
“I think that I shall never knowWhy I am thus, and I am so.”—A Fairly Sad Tale, Dorothy Parker ⧫…
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