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Take a Bite: The Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology
Take a Bite presents the top twelve entries in the 2021 Rhys Davies Short Story award, and its introduction promises us fiction that is ‘alive with character, voice, and language’. The anthology takes its title from Naomi Paulus’ winning entry, which begins the story sequence. The aunts of the prota …
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Pain Sluts
Before the 1900s, people used to assemble makeshift lamps called sluts. The OED definition offers supporting evidence from Anne Ellis’ Life of an Ordinary Woman: ‘Mama would fill a bowl with melted grease, then braid or twist pieces of rag, putting one end in the grease, lighting the other, and thus …
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Dead Relatives
Lucie McKnight Hardy’s debut novel, Water Shall Refuse Them (Dead Ink, 2019), was a slow-burning folk horror set in a small Welsh village during the intense summer heatwave of 1976. A claustrophobic coming-of-age tale concerned with grief, family and the dark side of rural life, it simmered with men …
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The Venetian Legacy
If you like your thrillers to be hard-boiled, noirish, violent, full of damaged cops and psycho crims, and action-packed from the prologue to the postscript, then Venetian Legacy might not be your cup of char – or, rather, your balloon-glass of Aperol spritz. For that is what our heroes, newlyweds N …
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Yew for Two
As the tree-felling season once again approaches, and in Part 2 of his 1960 autobiographical notes (Well laid Hedges and Cider) Jim Pratt moves on from Osbaston to another piece of ancient woodland in Monmouth Forest It is spring 1961. We prepared and planted Osbaston with larch in rows kept straigh …
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Forms of Exile: Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva
Poetry is the place where meaning remains an open question. When engaging with a poem, the reader is offered a rare gift: the freedom to interpret condensed language in any possible way, knowing the invitation can be renewed endlessly and experienced differently every single time. Because reading a …
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Inhale / Exile
Abeer Ameer’s vigorous poetry collection Inhale/Exile is an epic and a storybook in one. Epic, because the single poems are pieces of a whole body, st …
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The History of Wales in Twelve Poems, A Last Respect: The Roland Mathias Prize Anthology of Contemporary Welsh Poetry
The art of the poetry anthology is a competitive arena. You have the celeb selections (Amis on Larkin, Cerys Matthews on her whims), the ‘authoritativ …
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Poem and Interview with Steven Hastings to Celebrate National Poetry Day 2021
Memory Clinic II Welcome to the memory clinic. Do you know why you are here? …
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Lord of All the Dead
Many families have a mythic figure somewhere down the line. Mythic in this context, though, usually means larger than life. They are the relative or a …
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Elaine Morgan: A Life Behind the Screen
In 1990, Elaine Morgan ended her forty-year career as a script writer for television and radio with a piece for Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. She was sevent …
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The End of the Yellow House
When Chief Superintendent Lepinov’s bloated, battered body is discovered in a well with a padded wooden box placed over his bashed-in head on the open …
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