Ross McCleary and Andrew Blair are becoming fairly familiar faces on the Edinburgh spoken word circuit. Between them they’ve been published in Gutter, Valve, Dactyl and The Grind; they’ve headlined Blind Poetics and Inky Fingers, and appeared at Story Shop and Illicit Ink. They are also the driving force behind the increasingly popular Poets Against Humanity, and the main reason I have any knowledge or understanding of poetry outwith Dorothy Parker, Edward Lear and John Hegley. Continue reading “Is This Poetry? – A completely unbiased review*”
It’s August in Edinburgh, and that means Festival time. So far I have – perhaps not surprisingly – mostly been to storytelling and poetry events. Here are a couple of listicles – although not with gifs in the way that Buzzfeed would do it, I don’t want to get too populist – of what I’ve seen and what i have yet to see. Just in case my opinions are likely to sway you. Continue reading “I Wish To Go To The Festival”
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It was the sort of morning that fills you with resolve to be better at life. You know the type of day I mean – the sun is shining, the sky is blue, and you’re walking through a leafy green park with your tunes blasting through your headphones. It’s a Thursday, which means the working week is almost over, and this weekend you are definitely going to go for a jog – or at least a long walk – and stock the house with vegetables, and write at least 5,000 words of your work in progress, and maybe even do a blog post. Continue reading “Salad Seems To Be The Hardest Word”
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Yesterday we heard that Harper Lee, the famously old (and reclusive) author of To Kill A Mockingbird, is to release a new novel: Go Set A Watchman.
I spent my lunch break at work rendering the reaction from the internet in MS Paint. Continue reading “Harper Lee: The Internet Reacts”
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This morning my soon to be brother in law posted a picture online of a photo from the Telegraph captioned ‘Mark Rylance as Oliver Cromwell in Wolf Hall’.
Now, I haven’t read Wolf Hall yet but I am aware that it is about Tudor England. As such, Oliver Cromwell (born in 1599, died in 1658 – September) probably isn’t too heavily involved. Rylance is in fact playing Thomas Cromwell (born around 1485, died in 1540), who is not the same person at all. However, this mistake did give me this idea for a quick comic – so all’s well that ends well.
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Hello, and a happy Tuesday to you! I’m reaching out from the pit of NaNoWriMo today to host the second leg of a blog tour, how exciting.
The book on tour is The List by Joanna Bolouri. It has nothing to do with the popular Scottish cultural magazine, and everything to do with a debut novel about a woman who makes a list of risqué New Year’s Resolutions. *WHISPER* the list is all sex things.
Continue reading “Review: The List, by Joanna Bolouri”
12 Books in 12 Months 