A few years ago I was doing a poetry performance at a bar on Lark Lane in Liverpool, and a couple came over to chat after my set. The man and woman were probably both post-50, and told me they were just coming up to their first year together. They had both finally found theirContinue reading “The Write Sentiment”
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How I dumped Facebook…(for a week)
I remember when I set up my facebook account in 2009. I uploaded some photos to my profile, as you do, and sent out some friend requests. And then I saw a status update that has always stuck in my mind. It was by a female musician who was in a prominent band at the time;Continue reading “How I dumped Facebook…(for a week)”
Paint, Protest and Putin: Liverpool’s New Radical Art
With revolution erupting in Ukraine, and Putin’s thugs whipping members of Pussy Riot at the Sochi games, an art show themed on protest could not have had a more fitting backdrop. Seventy people squeezed into Arena Gallery’s bijou central Liverpool space for the private view of “Objections”, the latest show by Not Just Collective, an artContinue reading “Paint, Protest and Putin: Liverpool’s New Radical Art”
WHY I HATE AND LOVE FACEBOOK
You may know I publish my own physical zines from time to time, including poetry, music reviews and general comment…? Well, not long ago I put out a little pocket-sized publication of short, random writing. Here (below) is the introduction to the zine which, as you’ll find out, has a lot to do with aContinue reading “WHY I HATE AND LOVE FACEBOOK”