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My London
I was born, brought up and have lived most of my life in London, and it fits
me like a pair of comfortable slippers. I...
Old mother moor
is bitter –
peat is the thinnest of comforts
the bedrock is recalcitrant as teeth
moor like to throw up
what she thinks are startling images
hanks of hair,...
Kleist Single Malt
Riding
He tried to be a soldier. Seven years he spent in the Guards, seven years he described as irredeemably lost. Then, one afternoon, this...
A Walk Through Rackham Land
Ideally, if you go into Rackham Land you should go on your own. Take a deep breath and walk. Don’t look for Rackham. Let...
A Gamble with People and Money
Summer Opera, 2017 (Glyndebourne Festival, The Grange Festival, Grange Park Festival at West Horsley, Garsington Opera at Wormsley, Opera Holland Park)
2017 was not a...
The Ribbleway
Wild horses wouldn’t get me to central Lancashire for a bank holiday–or so I thought. In fact, all it took was some old friends...
The Sandman
Quiet: the poet is taking the stage.
(Well, it’s not a stage, but a circle of bookshop carpet:
Shush, we won’t quibble.)
She
(As we said, we’ll go...
Emotions Run Cool
First Love, Gwendoline Riley, Granta, February 2017, £12.99, 176 pp. (hardcover)
‘How many boyfriends are treated like the father figure?’ This question, posed by the...