Richard Doyle

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....

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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...

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Book review - Utopia Avenue

The Third Planet Get ready for the roar of the artist; the sad, lonely tour of the pop odyssey; hotfoot intros and syncopated cameos; London Bowie and New York Joplin; the lyrical death of the...

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Snow and Roses

At the "Snow and Roses" after Louis MacNiece Walk in and I can hear birdsong. Or is it whale-music? On all sides are stacks of anthologies, bundles of collections and showers of pamphlets. Think...

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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,...

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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...

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The Triumph of the Unlikely Hero

The Triumph of the Unlikely HeroTinker. Tailor. Soldier. Poorman. Beggarman.Tinker. Tailor. Soldier. Poorman. Beggarman.These words reveal a fable of deceit and betrayal in the Cold War classic by...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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