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More Sad News From Your Stupid Planet

17/04/09
by Nick Holloway

A follow-up to last Tuesday’s post: Luke Kennard has kindly agreed to let me feature something from his excellent blog, Planet-Shaped Horse, which collects together all the poems he’s writing (the challenge is one a day) during American National Poetry Month. As the project has got going it’s developed into a bit of a poetry sitcom, centering on the lives of Miranda, Simon and an enigmatic character.. More


Dear Chris

15/04/09
by Chris Hicks

Is something troubling you? Getting you down? A problem shared is a problem halved. For over twenty years, I’ve been guiding people towards finding solutions. Write to me at: Dear Chris, 22 Birchtree Road, Liverpool, L17 0DS, or get in touch by email.Dear Chris,It’s like I’m losing my mind or something. I’m blatantly paranoid. It’s blatant. Everywhere, I’m looking round at the people in the.. More


Keep The Lights On

10/04/09
by Nick Holloway

Hello, it’ll be rather quiet on the blog over Easter what with bank holidays galore and the distraction, probably drunken, they inevitably inspire. But it would be remiss of me not to mention that our pals Wave Machines have made one of the songs from their debut album, Wave If You’re Really There, available to download for free. Here’s a snippet piped, with a bit of server trickery, direct from the.. More


Kaleido-Lapse

08/04/09
by Nick Holloway

’Kaleido-Lapse’... sounds like a violent and colourful bout of diarrhoea. As ’technicolour yawn’ is to vomit, say. Makes my bowels nervous just to say it, but - seeing as it’s the title of the film I want to share - I’m going have to live with the sensation. Here it is, anyway: in the trippier bits you can pretend, as I did, that you’re flying around inside a Persian carpet.. More


The 12 Labours Of Luke Kennard

06/04/09
by Nick Holloway

Make that more like one labour, done thirty times over: inspired by American National Poetry Month, former Mercy event headliner Luke Kennard has set himself the task of writing a poem a day for every day this month.I’ve been trying to think which of the labours of Hercules this frenzy of writerly activity would most resemble if I had to pick one. I initially thought labour number five, cleaning the.. More