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KLAUS MÄKELÄ: A massive hope for the future – Robert Kenchington
Emerging from the ruins of a Classical music industry broken by recession, COVID and post millennial gimmickry, is a phenomenal new artist who within the space of only five years has become the greatest conductor of the 21st century. His name is Klaus Mäkelä. Aged only 29, Mäkelä as both man and musician embodies the…
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WHAT. THE. ACTUAL? – HAUSU AND THE COMPLETE DERANGEMENT OF THE SENSES
About twenty minutes into Hausu – which translates, fairly obviously, as House, but which I’m going to refer to Hausu throughout this review purely to piss off autocorrect – seven friends hop off a train at a rural station and make for the middle-of-nowhere residence belonging to a relative. It’s so out-of-the-way that the montage depicting their journey vibes less…
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REVIEW: Release the Sausages! edited by Andy Croft (Culture Matters) – Neil Fulwood
There is a technique in poetry, borrowed from Apophatic Theology, called the via negativa, whereby attention is drawn to the subject by dint of its absence. This new anthology, subtitled Poems for Keir Starmer, takes the via negativa to its logical extreme. With painstaking aesthetic focus and laser-like editorial precision, Andy Croft has assembled a…
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Tuesday Shannon – Three Poems
On Belper Bridge At the plunge three blackened alder snagsreach for this final January morning. Unwavering against the crushing flow, waterfroths at each darkened trunk. A magpie circles, swoops,settles on a branch. It is four weeks since you died.The current persists. Leaving BrightonInsert Dedication Here Sunset tinges the sea fog blood orange.We drive the full…
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The Greenwash Recycle – Shaun Belcher
THE GREENWASH RECYCLE Starts in a marketing agency hand-out around the milleniumSocial demarcation and quantifying statistics showed newer markets More social class segmentation and new science of social media metricsIdentified new opportunities to market directly to the A B and C groups Especially those spending more time at home, the newly affluent mothersWork from homers…
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Martin Figura & Helen Ivory – HUM
Martin Figura and Helen Ivory . Commissioned for a performance at The National Centre for Writing, Dragon Hall, Norwich as part of the European Poetry Festival
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Martin Figura – Two Poems
Martin Figura – Foundling – A Poem
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REVIEW: My Secret Life: Selected Poems by Krisztina Tóth, trans. George Szirtes (Bloodaxe) – Neil Fulwood
REVIEW: My Secret Life: Selected Poems by Krisztina Tóth, trans. George Szirtes (Bloodaxe)
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A SUMMER CASE OF CULTURAL IRRELEVANCE : THE TLS – Nick Ingram
A SUMMER CASE OF CULTURAL IRRELEVANCE – The Tls – Nick Ingram
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The Timbre of Tucson: An Abundance of Music from the Old Pueblo- Mike Grover
Mike Grover on the Tucson Music Scene an in depth look.
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WICKER POETS? In Wicker land any fool can write.. Shaun Belcher
WICKERLAND? It’s like MOTHERLAND but without the humour.. more AMANDA writes poetry…..god help us all.
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Carlos Kleiber: The idol with feet of clay – Robert Kenchington
The slow death of Carlos Kleiber
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Neil Fulwood: Fuck Kier Starmer – A Poem
(in solidarity with Kneecap) Because it can’t be said enoughat Glasto or down the pubor queuing for the till or for a bus or in function rooms or waiting roomsor during the ads at the cinemaor in the back seat of a taxi or cop car; because it can’t be shouted loud enoughover rotors shattering…
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Andrew Taylor – Four Poems
Small Glass Pouring Light Shake the frost freewide river view to shoreroad noise anticipationof the carrier’s cart loadedwith news & print Bright star above the baybeautiful & simpleendlessly revealing Arctic Drone Winter keeper on watchthe map line of eternal ice Hot Soup Time Machine From afar welcoming window candle litwith the dark drops the dew…
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ALFRED BRENDEL (1931-2025) – Neil Fulwood
An Appreciation by Neil Fulwood How to describe Alfred Brendel? As a pianist, obviously – one of the greatest concert pianists who ever lived. A musician of immense talent and versatility.But also: a poet, essayist, cartoonist; a lover of art; a man who identified completely with the Dadaist movement.But also: a scholar, a teacher, a…
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How Not to be a Poet: Shaun Belcher
How not to be a poet…
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GRETA THUNBERG: A poem by Anthony Owen
TWTWTW : Topical Poems classed as That Was The Week That Was GRETA THUNBERG If only you were a rock starshouting free PalestineCrowd-surfing a flotilla of handsbut you never showed us your fleshWhen you wept for unfashionable fleshAnd you look autistic how dare you You stole their dreams. Antony Owen https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/8/who-is-madleen-the-woman-for-whom-the-aid-ship-approaching-gaza-is-named
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DEFENCE: Poem by Neil Fulwood
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2025/6/8/who-is-madleen-the-woman-for-whom-the-aid-ship-approaching-gaza-is-named
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Writing Home: Arnold Bennett, Stoke and Me – Jonathan Taylor
Jonathan Taylor “No-one ever comes to Stoke, no-one ever leaves Stoke, except for Arnold Bennett, and even he had to write about it”: when I was growing up in Stoke-on-Trent (aka the Potteries) in the 1970s and 80s, this was a saying that everyone knew. It conveyed Stoke’s insularity, its proud tradition of isolation. At…
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Maria Taylor – Three Poems
My Parents’ Wedding, July 1975 A rushed wedding, a year after the fighting.Newlywed Anna unable to finish her breakfastat the hotel. Dimitri insists she drinks upher scalding tea or they’ll miss the train. At St. Pancras, Anna sees the 9:40 pull in.She can still run away. Dimitri who wantedto leave in a hurry, grieves an…