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The smell of the underground – Tobias Hill’s Nocturne in Chrome and Sunset...
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In space no one can hear you scream – Sophie Mayer’s The Private Parts of Girls
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Lingerie in London – Me and the Dead by Katy Evans-Bush
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Me and my shadow – Egg Printing Explained by Katy Evans-Bush
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Animal Lover – Eleanor Rees’ Eliza and the Bear
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Wish You Were Here – Tamar Yoseloff’s The City With Horns
Rome – view from Villa Borghese (Photo credit: MsNina) It doesn’t take long to contract cultural flu in Rome. ‘That fountain’s by Bernini, you say? Show me one which isn’t’. Prolonged exposure to a...
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Generation Sex – John Hartley Williams’ Pistol Sonnets
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I’ll be your Mirror – Liane Strauss’s Leaving Eden
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Olivia Cole – Restricted View
Buy Restricted View from Salt Publishing Olivia Cole’s Restricted View explores, amongst other things, the pleasures and frustrations of perspective. ‘Breaking the Ice’, the first poem in the...
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Sympathy for the Devil – Mark Waldron’s The Brand New Dark
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