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...
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...
Vaccination Haiku
sky Pfizer blue, thoughts hover, crowd and celebrate Oxford's wild rainbow
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...
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...
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...
Biography
Richard Doyle has had poems and flash fiction published in the UK poetry magazines Orbis and Sarasvati, Drifting Sands Haibun and the anthologies Flash Fiction Festival Five and Six (Jan 2024)....
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...