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  • Old Man: a poem and photograph

    Old Man: a poem and photograph

    Old man what have you seen Stood tall on this land of green

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  • Dave Cornthwaite: A Modern Renaissance Man

    Dave Cornthwaite: A Modern Renaissance Man

    Dave Cornthwaite is a romantic. I don’t mean the sort of guy who turns up on Valentine’s Day with a bunch of garage forecourt flowers and a table booked, I mean an early 16th Century man imbued with idealism, passion, chivalry, and a desire for adventure.

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  • Expanding Into Time:

    Expanding Into Time:

    The reason I began this venture was to let out information that I was not able to convey in words. I couldn’t write a song about it. Nor could I write about it, I’d go completely insane.

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  • Win 2 tickets to Gossington Festival

    Win 2 tickets to Gossington Festival

    WIN TWO TICKETS, WORTH £50 each to the 12th Gossington Festival. Just tell us where pioneering virtuoso Belgian jazz guitarist and composer, Django Reinhardt, is buried.

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  • The Epps Factor

    The Epps Factor

    "No one thought anything was going to last, I’d met a girl who lived in an ice cream van in Hawaii" Stuart Epps laughed, "and I thought, that’s what I’m going to do, retire there and sell ice-cream."

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Lens on The London Festival of Photography

by Melanie Gow

I think photography is so much more than art – it’s a tool for recording and documenting all facets of life, for current societies to analyse and to inspire and teach future generations. It’s a tool for expression for people at all levels of ability, and it’s a communication tool for helping the world understand each other better.

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Shadow Casting

by Cynthia Barlow Marrs SGFA

For one thing, shadows reinforce the point that we’re here. “Cast shadows,” says Charles Williams, curator of the New English Art Club Drawing School, “are the best indicators of a body’s position in space.”

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The 14/4 Interview With Julie Cohen

by Emma Buckley

One of my favourite sex scenes in literature is from Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. It’s not actually a sex scene at all.

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Minima: a review or two in (misshapen body) parts, but first

by Richmond Harding

I simply can’t recommend this experience enough, the mix of genres, the eclectic nature of the score and the wonderful imagery that has set my head all a spin. It is genuinely disturbing, disorienting even, but in a way so delightful, you can’t help but return to the themes in your mind again and again.

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Minima: a review or two in (misshapen body) parts too

by Richmond Harding

For me, this has become the definitive score and I would find it difficult to watch the film again with any other music, so ingrained in my soul the vibration has become. Like the very first needle scoring a groove into wax, awaiting the pressing of a record.

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Lulu James, The Sebright Arms, London E2, Review

by Barbi_bb

It was obvious that the South Shields songstress, celebrating the launch of her first EP “Rope Mirage,” had the critical Hackney crowd of urban creatives well under her spell

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Forbidden Fruit

by Dean Feltimo

“I want you to bite into a strawberry.”
“Um, OK”

“A strawberry with a razor blade stuck into it.”

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Mapping Poetry: Around Poetry In One Night

by Melanie Gow

A gorgeous, gentle evening indulging in a dissimilitude of rhythmical words that wandered a room touching the oddments with a recognition unusual things share.

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Choice To Live By: poetry in performance and photography

by Poetik l

Get real and let the world hear your voice
And why not make knowledge your weapon of choice?
Then you can shut them down with all that you can achieve
Be all you want in your heart if you truly believe.

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The Woman Who Cried: a poem and photograph

by Cecelia Grant-Peters

The woman who cried,
Signed the Divorce Petition,
Went for a coffee,
Read a short story,
Posted a letter,
Went for a walk,
Basked in the sunshine,

And Cried.

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