A Romance of the Mean Streets 9 November 20195 January 2020 Chris Taylor The Lady in the Lake Raymond Chandler 1944 Philip Marlowe may be as well known as his author. He’s the ... READ MORE
Mister Punch Never Goes Away 14 September 2019 Chris Taylor The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Mr Punch Neil Gaiman (text) & Dave McKean (illustration) 2006 For ... READ MORE
The Poem's Harsher Conditions 31 August 201931 August 2019 Chris Taylor Selected Poems R.S. Thomas 2003 Austere is the word that springs to mind. Even R.S. Thomas‘ tender poems are of ... READ MORE
The Spell the Self Casts 24 August 2019 Chris Taylor I Put a Spell on You John Burnside 2014 The title of this book is drawn from the song of the same name, popularised by ... READ MORE
A Veiled Elegy for a Dream City 10 August 201920 December 2019 Chris Taylor The Conquest of New Spain Bernal Díaz 1632 1963 in translation by J.M. Cohen A Dream of a City ‘…when we ... READ MORE
Sounds Like Prayer - Raymond Carver... 22 July 20199 November 2019 Chris Taylor What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver 1981 Alcohol and violence swill through the stories in this ... READ MORE
Less Schwa, More Metonym 1 June 201915 August 2019 Chris Taylor The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre Don Paterson 2018 Silence Is the ground of poetry, Don Paterson tells us. We know ... READ MORE
Sparrows are Simply Eaten 16 April 201928 November 2021 Chris Taylor Life Embitters Josep Pla 1967 The name of Catalan Josep Pla drew a lip curl from my Catalan friend – followed by ... READ MORE
The Foxed Edges of Esoteric Awarene... 30 March 201915 August 2019 Chris Taylor People From The Other Side: the Enigmatic Fox Sisters and the History of Victorian Spiritualism Maurice Leonard 2008 In the ... READ MORE
Peterloo: the Violence of Order Mad... 10 March 20192 December 2021 Chris Taylor The Peterloo Massacre Robert Reid 1989 This year marks the bicentenary of the Peterloo massacre. On the 16th August 2019, ... READ MORE