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Adventures in Human Being

Once Claire was asleep again, the professor removed a chunk of her brain – the ‘epileptogenic’ part – and dropped it into a bin. ‘What was that chunk responsible for?’ I asked him. He shrugged. ‘No idea,’ he said; ‘we just know it’s not eloquent.’ The dedication at the front of this book is simply Read More

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Dark Star

Dante drives the borrowed squad car direct. He’s an accident of flesh and blunt bones Shaped human, ugly and mostly scowling, Made bitter by the job and the city. A 2013 graduate of Dundee University’s MLitt in Writing Practice and Study, Ollie Langmead’s first publication is a sci-fi neo-noir murder-mystery, told entirely in Miltonesque decasyllabic Read More

Featured image of CITIZEN: An American Lyric (Shortlisted for the 2015 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry; Winner of the 2015 Foward Poetry Prize)

CITIZEN: An American Lyric (Shortlisted for the 2015 TS Eliot Prize for Poetry; Winner of the 2015 Foward Poetry Prize)

The worst injury is feeling you don’t belong so much to you – (from “VII”) In a way that sounds obtuse and slightly absurd, I felt unworthy of reviewing this collection upon my first reading. A young Scottish white man forming opinions on the effectiveness of a middle-aged Jamaican-American black woman’s writings on racism (with Read More

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