Originally posted on Abegail Morley:
Recovery By the time I have learned to handle the blade of my young body, the blade has been dulled. As my grandmother told me, Youth is wasted on the young. I would tell her now that truth is, too. I didn’t recognise the sound. Do you know how much…
How football can disappoint
Two European finals, four English teams. To arrive at this point, four gripping semi-finals offering the highest level of the game – goals, excitement, edge-of-the-seat nerve-wracking moments, and even a penalty shootout. Extraordinary spectacles including a manager unashamedly in tears, on his knees on the pitch. There followed lengthy debate in the media about the… Continue reading How football can disappoint
#WADOD – Day 16: March 16th 2019
Originally posted on Martyn Crucefix:
Works and Days of Division – 29 poems by Martyn Crucefix Drawing on two disparate sources, this sequence of mongrel-bred poems has been written to respond to the historical moment in this most disunited kingdom. Hesiod’s Works and Days – probably the oldest poem in the Western canon – is…
Jeff Skinner – No End of Blue Things
Originally posted on Abegail Morley:
No End of Blue Things The bone china mug you drank from every morning we’ve retired like a shirt; an exhibition of blouses, perfume-faint, hung behind a door I dare not open. For coastal walks a darker coat, the cursive waves, more grey than blue. Allotment skies in April, May,…
Notes on Literature as Play
Brilliant summary – I wish I’d written it myself!
Mental Health and being a Woman…
Originally posted on Not quite curvy; definitely real:
There are 84 sculptures standing precariously on the edges of tall buildings in London. Each one represents one of the 84 men a week who die by suicide every week. You might have seen them overhead, on TV or in recent articles about male suicide – they…
Beer-tasting and poetry on April 8th – A double bill – Parthian Baltic and the European Poetry Festival
Originally posted on Abegail Morley:
An evening of poetry and beer-tasting to celebrate the launch of Parthian Baltic, a series of books showcasing the best writing from Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia. Featuring readings from Madara Gruntmane, Eduards Aivars & Krišjānis Zeļģis (Latvia – photos below), Eeva Park & Veronika Kivisilla (Estonia), Aušra Kaziliūnaitė, Marius Burokas…
Moving on
This blog was started as work toward my MRes degree. The content of the blog, together with a commentary and visual artwork were submitted to the University of Brighton and my degree was awarded with distinction. I am currently studying Creative Writing at the University of Chichester. I have decided that this blog should become… Continue reading Moving on
A nest of rag and bone
Originally posted on Freefall:
Reviewing John Burnside’s latest collection Still Life With Feeding Snake earlier this week, I was drawn to two poems that frame the male gaze, ‘Annunciation in Grey and Black’ and ‘Approaching Sixty’. In the latter, the narrator watches a girl in a cafe in Innsbruck as she winds her hair then…
crackedmirrors and angelpie 