Theresa Muñoz and Jacob Sam-La Rose are joined by the winning and shortlisted poets of the inaugural James Berry Poetry Prize for the prize announcement. Reading…
The announcement of the Flambard Poetry Prize and readings by the winners Jane Lovell and Patrick Errington in Culture Lab. This event took place on…
In the depth of the Seven Seas A Sinbad I became And drowned at an early age My own sin was curiosity, freedom and hunger…
Five minutes to go, four, three, two…class dismissed. I just wanted a pint to be fair. ‘To be fair’? I am certainly picking up on…
I was programmed to look back. I always did. Wherever I went by bus, train, riding a horse, or flying in an aircraft, I always…
“Go in the peace of Christ,” the priest says. “Thanks be to God,” the choir says. “—od,” I say, and the last consonant slips past…
The cars here, in Newcastle, look like giant toys with both misplaced drivers and steering wheels. For me, an inhabitant of another world, this small…
‘Hey there, you brown bitch!’ Juvenile laughter sprung out of the car as it screeched away, just after screeching to a halt so the passenger…
Lizzie Siddal in the Bath My fourth drowning this week. For the first hour I float, removed to a muffled world, white tin beneath my…
Slipping She has eight days to check each morning’s haul, to claim her own. Every week, since his boat sailed up the Thames to Rotherhithe…
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