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• Book review: The loneliness of the long distance runner by Alan Sillitoe

  History’s simply a chronicle of people entering and exiting variously curated rooms wearing different hats. Queue, cyclically, everything going boom; this book was written after one such schismatic ruction, therefore one is forgiven the dubbing of literature written in, particularly that, war’s wake “post-apocalyptic”. A snarling bulldog charge of a book, this. Gritty short stories…

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  15th Mar 2026

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• Wishstarting the stardrake

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  20th Jan 2026

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• Splurge

  Since last posting in April 2025 I’ve captured thousands of poems, varying, as do we all, in length, quality and tone. If physical tokens represented each poem, I wager that upon my death it would take a determined grieving family ten or more full car trips to the local charity shop before the lot was…

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  4th Jan 2026

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• Fractious Fractions 

  We are two sides of one fraction  A vincula between us  Two particles interacting Two hasty tesseracts in quantum action  Axial maxims  In the gallery like a hacked sim  Stimulate my imagination, simulate my emancipation My eventual station one highly elevated Elation at my creations Avuncular Athena a teacher of mathematics tutors Prometheus Pyre purloiner,…

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  2nd Jun 2024

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• Redress

  Got a fourfold vision, assailed without break I sail without break, I am the surface breaker You are fast, the better rapier handler I have been handled, kneeling panting Offer me a hand if first I will kiss your sandal My mail breaker mistakes you for Dracula, stakes you I walk up to the woman…

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  27th May 2024

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