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Category Archives: Literature
The Spinster Book
This article originally appeared in Bad Reputation – a feminist pop-culture adventure on 28 February 2012. This was going to be a very light and fluffy post, raising an arched eyebrow at an interesting find, but over the course of … Continue reading
Posted in Arts, Bad Reputation, Book, Feminism, Literature, Review
Tagged book review, charity shop, found feminism, hilarious, history, marriage, sad, spinster, the personal is political
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The Schadenfreude Review
As a reviewer I find the hardest reviews to write are of books which just strike you as ‘meh.’ The okay books which you neither love nor hate are difficult to get a handle on. You often wind up describing … Continue reading
Posted in About writing, Literature, Rabid Dislike, Review, Ugh
Tagged albert, bad writing, book, death penalty, executioner, pierrepoint, review
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Double-Barrel
I feel that poetry has a reputation for being a bit stuck up, a bit whiny and middle-class, and I want to break through that prejudice with this deeply personal account of how difficult my life has been growing up … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Poetry, Spoken Word
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In Tents
A poem of mine has just been published in Dot Dot Dash Magazine Issue 5: Feast. I thoroughly recommend you buy a copy and see the other (astoundingly good – seriously, I love most of it and that’s a rare … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Poetry, Rabid enthusiasm, Spoken Word
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How to Alienate Readers, Too
Book Review: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People I bought this book because the title caught my eye, and the quotes on the cover were divine: “I’ll rot in hell before I give that little bastard a quote for … Continue reading
Posted in Book, Literature, Rabid Dislike
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Book Review: One More Stop by Lois Walden
Insipid, Self-Obsessed Drivel It’s amazing that a novel that features drugs, cults, orgies, suicides, ghosts etc – nevertheless managed to maintain roughly the pacing and the depth of a lavender-scented puddle throughout. The author seems to assume that ‘gay’ and … Continue reading
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Into Temptation
This review originally appeared on Fat Quarter on 25 November 2009. Into Temptation: Poetry by Sophia Blackwell Every one of these words rings true and glows like burning coal “Gay Rage was my teenage agenda, my mates talking race, class … Continue reading
Posted in Book, Feminism, Literature, Poetry, Poetry, Rabid enthusiasm, Review, Spoken Word
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