Literature

Hello, my name is Chris, you may remember me from the music section. If not, well, that is a tremendous blow to my ego. Today, however, I'm reviewing a book. It's Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails and the Creation of The Downward Spiral by…

Crocodiles at Siem Reap by Patrick Deeley They wait beyond the tourist tickets you queue to purchase; beyond the ‘Help  Preserve Wild Animals’ sign,  the shop selling leather accessories  where display models of their kind  stand on…

Women Across Borders – Irish Writers Centre 7th March 2020 Women Across Borders is the Irish Writers Centre’s International Women’s Day event in conjunction with Women Aloud NI. Although I had been aware of it in previous years, I had not…

John Hewitt was a Belfast poet and political activist who famously described his identity as Ulster, Irish, British and European. That’s how I feel my own identity as well; I was born into a Protestant family and told I was British, then,…

Already finished The Stand and World War Z and looking for more books to occupy your time during lockdown? Take a look at some lesser-known novels about plague outbreaks that might just help you pass the time – or push you further into…

Elsewhere by Jeremy Haworth Storm-coked waters, Rain-stitched earth, wind cold as the swipe of a feathered hook peeling the iron of trawlers junked in a bath of silt. One a hoop of ribs, another a cringe of rust. …

How they must hate us. (Rowena) It is fitting to review Blacklight's production of Sarah Daniels Masterpieces which ran at Smock Alley from the 2nd to the 7th of March. The play is without doubt one of the most disturbing and thought…

First up in our list of poets for International Women's Day is Denice Frohman reading her poem A Woman's Place. I first came across Frohman a few years ago in a HeadStuff post by Alvy Carragher. Frohman's reading of her work is nothing…

A‘I want to sleep just a moment,  A moment, a minute, a century. But let it be known that I have not died…’ Federico Garcia Lorca I spent last year chasing the Spanish writer Garcia Lorca across the world; Granada, New York,…

VALOUR IN DARKNESS by Hibah Shabkhez As ebony concedes star after star To the bruising mist from the east We cackle and rise. Smiles of triumph after our secret war Light up the suffused heaving breast Of morn-stirred skies…