Breaking Light is Karin Altenberg’s second novel, following her Orange Prize (2012) nominated debut, Island of Wings. In Breaking Light, we follow Gabriel Askew in two narratives separated by around forty years – that of his life as a child and young adult in Mortford and then as a retired professor returning to his childhood Read More
Forms of Protest is, at first read, quite a bizarre piece of work. However, amongst Hannah Silva’s strange and unconventional writing there is a wealth of inventive and interesting content. Silva’s background in music, including playing the recorder and her experience in theatre, sees her work with sounds and rhetoric in interesting ways. The collection Read More
Sceptics of literary prizes might claim that winning the Booker Prize once is a fluke. However, this point of view is hard to justify if an author wins said prize twice, and Australian author Peter Carey is one of only three people to have done so to date. Born in 1943 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Read More
Devised and performed by Dundee Rep’s Community Company, The Land Beneath Our Feet is a dark, thought-provoking tale of community eviction. It invites the audience to make its own judgements about the space we call home, as residents and ruthless developers clash with tragic consequences. Director Catrin Evans began working with the community performers in Read More
A Swiss artist, Roman Signer’s work has avoided the category of “process based” art; yet in suggesting previous interactions between established objects, he, like others, deconstructs your sense of art as a finished work. However, his pieces avoid such categorizations through their inclusion of a visual aftermath; the depiction of the development process and finished Read More
The Only Reason for Time, Fiona Moore’s particularly courageous debut, takes the reader through a very honest and insightful depiction of the poet’s agonizing struggle following the death of her beloved husband. Written days after his death, the opening poem “Postcard” marks the early stages of her grief. Thought-provoking comparisons of both colours and textures Read More
What is the role of painting in contemporary art practice? Where can it be situated within art discourse, and what is its value? Hold, Sway, the current exhibition at Generator Projects, brings together five artists in an attempt to address these questions. The show posits a transitional, mediate space between the flat plane of two-dimensional Read More
It is not easy to reconcile the Scotland that reluctantly became England’s “poor partner” in 1707 with the “Enlightened”, intellectually progressive country of 108 years later. By the close of the first century of parliamentary union, the once “backward” northern state had become renowned for innovations in economics, literature, philosophy, and architecture. In tracing this Read More
When considering Norfolk pumpkin farms, one rarely thinks “oppressive” or “Sean Harris needs an ASBO”, but Guy Myhill’s directorial debut prompts thoughts of both, in this haunting yet captivating coming-of-age story. After leaving school, Goob (Liam Walpole) finds himself trapped in the Fens, despairing over his mother Janet’s (Sienna Guillory) abusive boyfriend and stock-car racer Read More
Nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature nine times, awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in May 1977 and deemed by French poet Louis Aragon “the greatest poet of our age”, Yiannis Ritsos is rightly considered amongst the greatest Greek poets of the twentieth century. Given this great stature then, it is perhaps surprising – and Read More