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Methuselah’s Multiverse

Reviews
  Mortal Morning, Brian Aldiss, Flambard Press, 92pp, £12.99 (hardback) Anterooms, Richard Wilbur, Waywiser Press, 69 pp, £8.99 (paperback) Born…

A Riddle Dissolved

Reviews
  Woyzeck on the Highveld (adapted from Woyzeck by Georg Büchner), Handspring Puppet Company, toured 6 September-12 November 2011 Woyzeck…

Notes from Manchuria

Features
  Notes from Manchuria, 2011 is a diary that I kept during a fortnight’s tour of the Dongbei or north-east…

In the Drift

Poetry
  Convalescent, by the Kennet side, I see two raucous geese glide down to a synchronised landing through scattered waterfowl.…

Captain of Industry

Poetry
  At dawn in silk pyjamas, mole-skin slippers, he will wind up clocks, dozens of cream zeros set in oblong…

Syringe

Poetry
  Colder than water, unravelling its dark breath in the blur my hands make as I press metal to the…

End of Girlhood

Poetry
  The first time a tree called me by name, I was thirteen and only spoke a weave of ordinary…

After the Reading

Poetry
  She breathes in the hairspray topnotes of a highland single malt, which needs a glass not a tooth mug.…

An Endless Trace

Poetry
  These days it is to small things that I go – The double thumbprint on page 83 Of Sir…

Ferris Bridges

Poetry
  Further down from Ferris Bridges where the blind old gospel baritone dreamed a mirage of eternal mirrors miniature shadows…

Edinburgh Buses

Poetry
  Strolling around it’s not so changed – Glasgow still has its Lasses All cheek bones And button-nose, grouted faces;…

Elder

Poetry
  If there had been a single branch to whittle into a kindly tune to keep the devil and his…

Buzzard

Poetry
  rests briefly on the ash that’s just putting out leaves makes no sound among the chaffinches and blackbirds and…
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