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Posted on December 2, 2015

‘To Na Mèo’ published in Contrapasso: Long Distance

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The most excellent Theodore Ell and Contrapasso Magazine published my poem, To Na Mèo, in their Long Distance issue. Their issues are always full of wonderful poems, stories, and interviews, so make sure you check out the issue.

Posted on November 25, 2015July 3, 2018

‘The Crowley-Fizelle School’ published in Cordite

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On November 1st, my poem The Crowley-Fizelle School was published in Cordite 52: TOIL. It’s a brilliant edition, so make sure you check it out. A huge thanks to editor Carol Jenkins for accepting my work.

Posted on October 27, 2015

Review – The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War by Sumia Sakkar

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The most excellent Mascara Review recently published a review I wrote of Sumia Sakkar’s The Boy from Aleppo Who Painted the War. You can read the review here. Thanks, Mascara!

Posted on March 4, 2015March 4, 2015

Review of Omar Musa in Southerly

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My review of Here Come the Dogs by Omar Musa has just been published by Southerly. You can check it out here or here.

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Rereading pleasures: I said I couldn’t stop, so I didn’t. Sometimes, I just need to live in Paris in my mind. “A Hero of France” by Alan Furst #alanfurst #aherooffrance #paris #ww2fiction #occupationparis
Rereading pleasures: how could it have taken 10 books, including this one twice, to see what he was doing? The economy of his sentences: an ideology in the cut of a suit, deep love in a single line. No frills, no fob-watches; just the good bones of time, place, action. I can’t stop. “Mission to Paris” by Alan Furst #missiontoparis #alanfurst #paris #1930s #1930sparis #ww2fiction #ww2paris
James Joyce set his masterpiece “Ulysses” on June 16th 1904. It was published in 1922 by Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Company, a labour of love for Beach, a staunch defender of the brilliant modernist expatriates in Paris in the 1920s, but especially of Joyce. In recent times, June 16th has been celebrated as Bloomsday, where people come together to read sections of Ulysses and drink. @shakespeareandcoparis hosted a gloriously sunny one this year; I participated in a very tipsy one when I was studying the book in 2004. That year was the centenary of Bloomsday itself; this year is the centenary of its publication. Get yourself a copy so you too can declare “yes I said yes I will yes”. Pictures of Joyce and Beach outside the original Shakespeare and Company in Paris, along with the original cover, taken from Pinterest. If you want more, look at @lost_modernists and @shakespeareandcoparis and @shakespeareandcoproject #jamesjoyce #jamesjoyceulysses #ulysses #sylviabeach #shakespeareandcompany
They were just ordinary Germans, people of their time and place, and in that ordinariness couldn’t rise to the magnitude of the events they lived through, couldn’t see beyond the moment - their suffering reads like punishment, but it too was ordinary, in comparison. Such beautiful prose, that I could care so much about such people. “The Undertaking” by Audrey Magee #theundertaking #audreymagee #ww2 #ww2fiction #ww2germany
I came to this after I saw the show on @sbsondemand as I wasn’t ready for it to end. The repetitive speech of the unreliable narrator was mesmeric, as was the violence, and the explosive politics of pre WWII Warsaw. Thank you @szczepan_twardoch I’ll be back for more. “The King of Warsaw” by Szczepan Twardoch #thekingofwarsaw #król #szczepantwardoch #ww2poland
Her prose is a knife, shiny, economical, cutting right to the bone. The first volume of her living autobiography is a small blue treasure. I’ll be the next volumes in short order. “Things I don’t want to know” by Deborah Levy #deborahlevy #thingsidontwanttoknow #livingautobiography #memoir

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