Month: August 2020
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Earlyworks Press Poetry Competition 2020 RESULTS
Judge’s Report by Mandy Pannett (The poems were judged anonymously but we’ve added names here, and a selection of the short listed poems below) Congratulations to all the entrants for managing, in this terrible year, to write such well-crafted, strong poems. I feel the standard has been exceptionally high and I found it difficult to […]
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Beauty is still dying
When I read Sheri S Tepper’s ‘Beauty’ back in the early ‘90s, I thought she had done me an injury. I enjoyed it, but the Ending (not the ending of the book, The Ending) was just too dark. Not fair. I just read it again, here in 2020 and, when I got to the bit […]
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In the Absence of Hard Evidence
In the absence of hard evidence of a divine engineer in the sky, I’d say the patterns in your mind are who you are. This is my thought for the day because it became necessary to clean and decorate the back room, and to do that, it was necessary to move two wallfuls of books, […]
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What do Rosie Duffield and J K Rowling have in common?
They’re both well known, one extremely well off and the other at least comfortably secure. They both have ways of making themselves heard, and they also, according to those on the left, have allegiances to the wrong kind of Labour Party members. Duffield and Rowling both recently spoke up about their worries over women’s rights […]
Kay Green 