LAOTY Bristol Harbourside 13th June 2024
Are you a professional artist? That was the question from the executive producer of Landscape Artist of the Year as she walked by with her mother in tow checking out the wildcard artists at work....
Book Review - Bad Actors
Star quality from the creator of Slow Horses (now an Apple TV show), Bad Actors does not disappoint. A quirky time-ordering and a rollicking reintroduction to the current slow horse regulars with...
Vaccination Haiku
sky Pfizer blue, thoughts hover, crowd and celebrate Oxford's wild rainbow
Piranesi
Welcome to my world. A harsh and beautiful world of surprising complexity and harmony. Watch out for the tides and marvel at the statues. The Hall of the Minotaurs. Look out for the birds (crows,...
The death of the sentence - review
hello richard i've just finished reading the death {of the} sentence though only once a {singularity} perhaps (theres a book called the poetics of singularity by somebody called tim clark [i...
Biography
Richard Doyle has had poems, haibun and flash fiction published in the UK poetry magazines Orbis, Sarasvati and Cerasus Poetry Magazine, Drifting Sands Haibun and the anthologies Flash Fiction...
Court Revival
Serving always heightens my senses: unexpected details at the corners of vision, snatches of murmured conversations. Even the build-up: walking to the baseline; bouncing the ball. Receiving...
Best Lines/Titles
the novel that crushed civilization the sound of one poet wrestling A book of fragments, episodes, anecdotes, jottings, ramblings, scramblings Z is for Zero Taking over my life, it shouldered me...