New book review on my Substack (free!): The Last Decade of Cinema by Scott Ryan.
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My latest podcast on Robert Fergusson's The Daft Day is now on YouTube!
youtu.be/dYzAfQ5x8ls?si=0Hlw…
Iconic Edinburgh poet Robert Fergusson is the subject of today's podcast, as I look at his breakthrough poem, 'The Daft Days':
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#edinburgh #LiteraturePosts
My latest podcast on Robert Fergusson's The Daft Day is now on YouTube!
youtu.be/dYzAfQ5x8ls?si=0Hlw…
I wrote the second life of an existentialist classic: Mortal Leap by Macdonald Harris, reissued by @bhousepress.
My full review: open.substack.com/pub/ashcat…
#BookReview
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So delighted with reviews in for SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS
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@earreadthis @OLRReview @Mind_the_Blog @KirkusReviews @insidestorymag @HistoryEpoch @LRB @washingtonpost @guardianculture @LAReviewofBooks @TheSpectator @books2cover @RodMannix @prospect_uk
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'A thrilling account of one artist’s evolutionary takeoff.'
Over the moon with this fabulous, sensitive, and richly detailed review of SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS @ManchesterUP @YaleRepUK @earreadthis
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As a bird and bard lover, I had a lot to say about Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers by Darren Freebury-Jones @Freeburian. My full review here:
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#Shakespeare #bookreviews
Black lab from the black lodge
#twinpeaks
New video from the bookshop -
Helen Vendler tribute (& her work on Plath's Ariel):
youtu.be/XnjmbNRF8sY
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Hands up who's already written a poem about The Horses, then.
Happy Shakespeare Day! New video to celebrate: "How Many Children Had Lady Macbeth?"
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What it delivers, you soulless little shit, is an indelible stain on the reputation of our poor country.
It might give your dwindling troglodyte base a brief twitching racism-boner but it makes the other 80% of us all the more determined to be rid of you forever.
Get out.
Revolting article by Lloyd Evans in the Spectator this week. My measured response:
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