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THE RABBIT HUTCH (TESS GUNTY), reviewed by Natasha Carr-Harris
There are grand, overarching themes which loom portentously over the unfolding personal narratives, omens of ecological doom and economic collapse and a depressing paucity of societal communion, all echoed by carefully detailed accounts of the city’s deterioration and stricken portraits of its unhappy denizens.
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BREAKING KAYFABE: AN INTERVIEW WITH WES BROWN, by Craig Smith
“And so that’s what the ‘no style’ was. I wanted it to seem spontaneous, to deliberately not write well. And that was a risk because if you want to purposefully write with a little bit less gloss and a little bit less polish, it could come off like you just can’t write. But I wanted…
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SINGAPORE (EVA ALDEA), Reviewed by Katy Severson
In Eva Aldea’s debut novel, Singapore is hot and humid, tense, sterile and slow. There are snakes and crabs, expat housewives with Filipina maids.
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CROW FACE, DOLL FACE (CARLY HOLMES), Reviewed by Mara Girone
Mystery, magic, mental illness and the wrecking of important relationships are some of the elements that make Crow Face, Doll Face a success.
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‘A DEFINING MESSAGE OF EDUCATION AND ACCEPTANCE’ : A CONVERSATION WITH DALE BOOTON ON HIS DEBUT POETRY PAMPHLET, WALKING CONTAGIONS, by Matt Bates
I wanted to write in a way that was bold, brash and blunt. I didn’t want to overuse metaphor but to say what I really thought on the matter. If my pamphlet expresses an element of the ‘defining message of education and acceptance’, then I have succeeded in what I wanted to do.
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POEM AND INTERVIEW: Scarlett Sabet
A Flag for Hope Revolution and execution,obscured the viewof a landmy Father would never return tothe lines of the body a battle ground,strands of hair a flag for hope.I can feel it when words are close,reach outhold a seance between pen,finger and thumb,resurrect the relatives whose voices came undoneand remember,all the blood that was shedbefore I…
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PJ HARVEY READS ORLAM AT CONWAY HALL, Reviewed by Amy Ridler
Orlam is an exploration of Dorset myth, woven into the changing of the seasons. There are two worlds in Orlam – The first is the real world (farm), the second world is made of dreams and visions (the woods).
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