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Mister Punch Never Goes Away

14 September 2019
Chris Taylor
The Comical Tragedy or Tragical Comedy of Mr Punch Neil Gaiman (text) & Dave McKean ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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A Veiled Elegy for a Dream City

Cover of The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz
10 August 201920 December 2019
Chris Taylor
The Conquest of New Spain Bernal Díaz 1632 1963 in translation by J.M. Cohen   A ...
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Sounds Like Prayer - Raymond Carver...

Cover of What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
22 July 20199 November 2019
Chris Taylor
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver 1981   Alcohol and violence ...
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Less Schwa, More Metonym

The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre by Don Paterson
1 June 201915 August 2019
Chris Taylor
The Poem: Lyric, Sign, Metre Don Paterson 2018   Silence   Is the ground of ...
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Sparrows are Simply Eaten

Cover of Life Embitters by Josep Pla
16 April 201928 November 2021
Chris Taylor
Life Embitters Josep Pla 1967 The name of Catalan Josep Pla drew a lip curl from my ...
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The Foxed Edges of Esoteric Awarene...

Cover of People from the Other Side by Maurice Leonard
30 March 201915 August 2019
Chris Taylor
People From The Other Side: the Enigmatic Fox Sisters and the History of Victorian ...
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Peterloo: the Violence of Order Mad...

Cover of The Peterloo Massacre by Robert Reid
10 March 20192 December 2021
Chris Taylor
The Peterloo Massacre Robert Reid 1989 This year marks the bicentenary of the Peterloo ...
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Strange, Trembling Letters

Cover of Hunger by Knut Hamsun
12 February 20193 September 2019
Chris Taylor
Hunger Knut Hamsun 1890 1996 in translation by Sverre Lyngstad ‘The whole modern ...
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