Interview| Barry Miles, founder of the International Times
This week sees the opening of the exhibition The British Underground Press of the Sixties, at A22 Gallery, Clerkenwell, featuring…
Essay| Shetland Norn by Simon Tait
Shetland is a quiet, self-possessed nation of 22,000 whose population still considers itself to be more Norse than British. They…
Review| The Letters Page Vol.2 published by Book Ex Machina
To pick up a book, writes Ioanna Mavrou, is ‘as if stepping out of the world for a beat and…
Interview | Karen Ashton, founder of the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Sale
This Sunday, the Art Car Boot Fair Pulls Back In To Vauxhall Back to its roots in the heart…
Review | ArtCircle’s Focusing Space at 48 Albermarle Street
On entering the doorway of 48 Albemarle Street and walking up its makeshift staircase of simple wooden boards you are…
Fiction | The Root of it All by Charlotte Newman
Pavements slick from rain and a market at night, risen dripping from the oily roads like a brand new…
Castles in the Air | Stephen Chambers : The Court of Redonda
Princes, prefects, urchins and poets; these are just a few in a court of luminaries setting sail to Venice. But…
Essay | Marion Coutts: ‘Aiming or Hitting’ by Annie Carpenter
These are busy times for the writer and artist Marion Coutts. Her first novel, The Iceberg, which was published in…
Review | Louder Than Hearts by Zeina Hashem Beck
‘Louder than Hearts has it all’, writes Betsy Sholl, judge of the 2016 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize, ‘compelling…
Competition Rules
Before entering a competition please read these rules carefully. General All entries must never have been published, self-published, published on…
Wife by Tiphanie Yanique
Intimacy and infidelity, warmth and vacuousness, possessed and free. These are all the paradoxes that are found, lost, and found…
Yerma at the Young Vic
Australian theatre’s “enfant terrible,” Simon Stone, rewrites and directs Lorca’s Yerma through a glass darkly. Opening night of Yerma at…
Poetry | Translated Love Letters by Andrew McMillan
from Norwegian / oh love, doesn’t the fact that the world is so big, / laid out like ripe fruit / make you want to stay? / from Arabic / how I long to cleanse you / in the waters of the Tigris / how I long, as though you were a small and / priceless artefact, / to take you in my arms / from Ant-speak / I will carry you carry you / through legions of grass / protect you from the thumb, / the sole; the eager-feathered bird / will not swoop for you / from American / love is just love, and I’m in it / for the ride, o.k.?
that tells me just exactly
Poetry | Full Fathom Five by Sylvia Plath
Old man, you surface seldom. / Then you come in with the tide’s coming / When seas wash cold, foam- / Capped: white hair, white beard, far-flung, / A dragnet, rising, falling, as waves / Crest and trough. Miles long […]
‘Just Books and Language’ – Interview with Abel Cutillas by Heather Wells
‘Just Books and Language’ – Interview with Abel Cutillas, co-owner of Llibreria Calders, Sant Antoni, Barcelona by Heather Wells Bernat…
Portraits of Artists and Friends – John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent – Portraits of Artists and Friends, National Portrait Gallery 12 February – 25 May 2015 If you…
Poetry Competition 2015
Our Poetry Competition has now closed and we would like to say a huge thanks to everyone who entered and…
Interview with Senior Curator Daniel Robbins
Heather Wells interviews Daniel Robbins, Senior Curator of the Leighton House Museum talking about the current exhibition, A Victorian Obsession. …
Interview with Marlene Johnson, Head of Enid Blyton Estate by Heather Wells
H: You/Hachette must have been very thrilled to acquire the rights to the Enid Blyton Estate (excluding Noddy) and that…
Butterbur – A Poem by Leni Dipple
Butterbur an epithalamium Many people who were here before have gone. Their place name remains. It is Kilchoman. Kilchoman, I…
College Street – A Poem by Manash Bhattacherjee
An open tunnel Swarming with books Slow pavement Walking with a pause Books stall you Eyes stalked by titles The…
Salt’n Pepper and Kipling – an Evening of the Telling by Amy Durant
Tucked away behind the bustle of Leicester Square lies the restaurant Salt‘n Pepper, which specialises in serving contemporary twists on…
Romantic Inspirations
Carol Ann Duffy CBE to chair the Keats-Shelley Prize 2015 and Young Romantics, a new prize for young writers The…
For Calcutta by Manash Bhattacharjee
As I leave for Calcutta I think the city Always that other city Its river Ganga Always my other river…
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