tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85345367532363368762024-03-18T21:12:18.976+00:00The Glue FactoryDavid J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.comBlogger871125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-87826770473286566452024-02-25T06:34:00.014+00:002024-03-03T13:55:46.626+00:00An evening with Lara Pawson and Orla Owen<p>Here's news of next month's online gathering, the third of twelve planned for 2024. </p><p>If you're on the guest list you'll automatically get a zoom link at 6pm on the day. If you're <i>not </i>on the guest list but would like to be, please leave your FULL NAME and EMAIL ADDRESS in the comments section below. And spread the word! It's free to join.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Sunday 24th March</span> at 7pm (UK time)</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p>Join two extraordinary writers for readings and conversation prompted by two very different books.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Lara Pawson</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Lara Pawson’s <i>Spent Light</i> is an unclassifable novel-memoir-essay hybrid, examining the hidden lives of objects – toasters, pepper-mills, fridge-freezers, Brazilian gaucho spurs – spinning off wildly into an account of the entire world of resource extraction and forced labour and industrial murder, alongside traditions of craft, reciprocity and affection.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7ffMyqiPjtF2rofO1ww90A_mUjfFVJ6WHrq79OTam_NtmAUiDE9A3oowHy7bflWdXvHB9akkY2rNL8UJ-8nqD5f5W3NqgHPzypl-mYcYfVg5rQZfqndkobnNdL2gZtsXAzfbhGZKV0pbp7_OmUM4Wlcfv7xraejM1aez1BuZ3FyoCB63DKuj7z7c0PBp-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1244" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7ffMyqiPjtF2rofO1ww90A_mUjfFVJ6WHrq79OTam_NtmAUiDE9A3oowHy7bflWdXvHB9akkY2rNL8UJ-8nqD5f5W3NqgHPzypl-mYcYfVg5rQZfqndkobnNdL2gZtsXAzfbhGZKV0pbp7_OmUM4Wlcfv7xraejM1aez1BuZ3FyoCB63DKuj7z7c0PBp-" width="316" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">‘Reading Pawson you realise how obedient most writing is, constrained by squeamishness or protocol … Lara Pawson’s writing is brilliant, unnerving and shockingly alive.’</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>– Miranda France, </span><em style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">Times Literary Supplement</em><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"> ‘</span><em style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">Spent Light</em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"> asks us to begin the work of de-enchanting all the crap we gather around ourselves to fend off the abyss – because we’ll never manage that anyway, the book warns, the abyss is already in us. But love is too. There might be no home to be found in objects, but there’s one to be made with other people. I think, in the end, this powerful, startling book is a love letter.’</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>– Jennifer Hodgson</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">‘I’m flabbergasted by the naked determination on show here, not to say the talent. Page by page, image by image, association by association, Lara Pawson develops a picture of the world that you won’t be offered anywhere else: stark, unremitting, brilliantly formed and written.’</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>– M. John Harrison</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">‘A shocking book. Lara Pawson’s merciless and exquisite prose adorns everyday objects with the violence of history – the savage comedy by which living creatures have become broken, petrified things. I will never look at a toaster or a timer, a toenail or a squirrel, the same way again.’</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>– Merve Emre</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">‘</span><em style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">Spent Light</em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"> is, obviously, not comfortable reading, but it is wild, bold writing in league with perfectly clear thinking, and while disturbing it is also, in a satisfyingly dark and absurd way, comic. Shelve it with Lucy Ellmann, Miriam Toews, Jenny Offill; brilliant, disillusioned women in absolute control of glorious prose.’</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> – Sarah Moss, </span><em style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">Guardian </em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">(full review </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/27/spent-light-by-lara-pawson-review-the-dark-side-of-everyday-things" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>here</b></span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">)</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">‘Pawson, who explored Angola’s forgotten massacre in her first book, </span><em style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">In the Name of the People </em><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">(2014), writes with a grotesque beauty. […] Pawson has created something very much her own here. It’s not fiction, it’s not non-fiction, it’s not memoir and it’s not an essay. What it is is a reminder that everything in this world is connected and that stories are everywhere, even in objects we might otherwise overlook.’</span><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> – Susie Mesure, </span><em style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;">Spectator</em><br style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 14px;" /><br /></p><p>Order direct from CB editions here: <a href="https://www.cbeditions.com/Pawson2.html">https://www.cbeditions.com/Pawson2.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;">Orla Owen</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB6JqvPk_FLqf0ckiznhpS4ubfkYsoQ3Y4BkNd5LtPVUJscUNjs-gRhsebow4t8zLa0LFPOU3BnaKgy6JYahHgkuW2OnMV_thVfUHyi-mt4QuRIoz4PvhknxYRC3RoHNUYhwanbV9CFvGPnnEJMyfQlcDWNYEP8UREAEsJeSaILLCWkHEsk_-lmk2L6TIt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="414" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhB6JqvPk_FLqf0ckiznhpS4ubfkYsoQ3Y4BkNd5LtPVUJscUNjs-gRhsebow4t8zLa0LFPOU3BnaKgy6JYahHgkuW2OnMV_thVfUHyi-mt4QuRIoz4PvhknxYRC3RoHNUYhwanbV9CFvGPnnEJMyfQlcDWNYEP8UREAEsJeSaILLCWkHEsk_-lmk2L6TIt" width="155" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px;">Orla Owen's third novel </span><i style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px;">Christ On A Bike</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px;"> was published by the award-winning Bluemoose Books on 25th January 2024.</span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Cerys receives an unexpected, life-changing inheritance, but there are rules attached. Three simple rules that must be followed...<p></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Routinely unnerving, each chapter becomes progressively more uncomfortable as the source of the inheritance comes into question. The novel goes to some startlingly dark places in its exploration of free will and family ties, and what starts as a deceptively engaging light entertainment about sibling rivalry becomes a wild journey into madness, mayhem and murder. </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">It's only been out for a couple of weeks so no press reviews as yet. But take a look at all the five star reviews on Goodreads! <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/200745697">https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/200745697</a> I read it in. asingle sitting and was completely immersed--a brilliant idea, brilliantly realised.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Do join Lara, Orla and myself for an hour of readings and conversation. We look forward to seeing you.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Keep the lights on, wherever you are.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">David</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px;"></span></span></p><p><br /></p>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-44498107883196904882024-02-04T04:00:00.009+00:002024-02-11T21:00:41.282+00:00An evening with Melissa McCarthy and C. D. Rose<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>You can watch a recording of this online gathering here:</b></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #6e7680; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.12px; margin-top: 7px;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/_O6oyxA5girQPI9Y85iAJHryFJavLLzyv3TXSV6c1mIhpzMSNgdJezaTUkQn68xX.YIFrH_I_FYyLGOLJ&source=gmail&ust=1707771488408000&usg=AOvVaw2VQ56d19vDCnV_j9kmO-C1" href="https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/_O6oyxA5girQPI9Y85iAJHryFJavLLzyv3TXSV6c1mIhpzMSNgdJezaTUkQn68xX.YIFrH_I_FYyLGOLJ" style="color: #0e71eb;" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/<wbr></wbr>share/_<wbr></wbr>O6oyxA5girQPI9Y85iAJHryFJavLLz<wbr></wbr>yv3TXSV6c1mIhpzMSNgdJezaTUkQn6<wbr></wbr>8xX.YIFrH_I_FYyLGOLJ</a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #6e7680; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.12px; margin-top: 7px;">Passcode: .F4Q6T^x</div><p><b style="font-size: large;">Sunday 11th February at 7pm UK time</b></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: times;">Join us for an hour in the company of two of the very best contemporary authors who (it turns out) share a particular interest. You'll get an exclusive Zoom link at 6pm UK time. Please leave your email address at the foot of this blog if you're not already on the guest list and you'd like to join us.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times;"><span>Melissa McCarthy's latest book is<i> Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro, </i></span> a collection of essays published by Sagging Meniscus Press)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span> </span>Photo:</em> to do with light. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span> </span>Phyto:</em> plants and flowers. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span> </span>Proto:</em> the first, the original. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span> </span>Nitro:</em> it blows up.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpYbvD_cNqw1V8ljJ7-okbJZrk3lUvFNUbcSwkskapj1G0b_d3iIzAXKHmDv0Kp8mw9HJfck7yG-NFym9Y_Lt6AiYMRkptkUf6DJmjYQsQANNp6qBirtcSvnpYXe_nlOgjt6_UqNvIkFPT3QM2oBeHxValsJmAY5mCDkqcl4Duy_EVwZY4O9p-3ENZbHHK" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="188" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhpYbvD_cNqw1V8ljJ7-okbJZrk3lUvFNUbcSwkskapj1G0b_d3iIzAXKHmDv0Kp8mw9HJfck7yG-NFym9Y_Lt6AiYMRkptkUf6DJmjYQsQANNp6qBirtcSvnpYXe_nlOgjt6_UqNvIkFPT3QM2oBeHxValsJmAY5mCDkqcl4Duy_EVwZY4O9p-3ENZbHHK" width="169" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">From Troy to Hiroshima, Crimea to the nuclear Nevada desert, we make our tracks over the war-scratched globe, and when we reach a ruin or a destination we read the markings, record them using various forms of photography. Later—or much, much later—someone else in turn will try to understand our silvery traces. These are the threads that Melissa McCarthy follows, unpicks, weaves again into a nexus of light and time: the mirrored silver cells of a shark’s eyeball, sunlight glinting off the foam and sea wrack of the Aegean on flower with corpses, the silver salts of photographic paper, silver grave-treasures at Ur.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span><span class="s1" style="font-family: times; font-kerning: none;"></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">Like an archaeologist in her own strange literary landscape, McCarthy cuts through layers of history and technology to realign the dead and their images. She examines both what can be photographed and what remains always just beyond the frame, and photography itself. It’s a practice involving chemicals and the action of light. But it’s also an organising principle for literature and beyond: there are marks made—by us, on us—that we can’t yet fully see or understand, though they push on through to the surface, always re-blooming.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/photo_phyto_proto_nitro/" style="font-family: times; text-align: left;">https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/photo_phyto_proto_nitro/</a></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">________________________________________________________</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times;">C. D. Rose's new novel is <i>Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea, </i>published by Melville House.</span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaHjfHPn7bWjg7WFJWE5ClaY36HmE1ms3uUqlIPPJ9eqlhP3sWk1W-R3fNQfyMyQNqlG-AoUt0lVTdf1zDuSf34qjbgd5A_nX3bSJTf0RbEO4UuwCRdebulUa-2lon4is-bERxWxQSaaHwLXFnE_15aGbrwpgonsi6NT_L5aSmJZw7SnesHZywMbkd6Zb-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaHjfHPn7bWjg7WFJWE5ClaY36HmE1ms3uUqlIPPJ9eqlhP3sWk1W-R3fNQfyMyQNqlG-AoUt0lVTdf1zDuSf34qjbgd5A_nX3bSJTf0RbEO4UuwCRdebulUa-2lon4is-bERxWxQSaaHwLXFnE_15aGbrwpgonsi6NT_L5aSmJZw7SnesHZywMbkd6Zb-=w224-h324" width="224" /></a></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141827; line-height: var(--tec-line-height-2); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-3); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141827; line-height: var(--tec-line-height-2); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-3); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;">Welcome to the fictional universe of C. D. Rose, whose stories seem to be set in some unidentifiable but vaguely Mitteleuropean nation, and likewise have an uncanny sense of timelessness—the time could be some cobblestoned Victorian past era, or the present, or even the future. In these 15 dreamlike tales, you’ll meet a forgotten composer who enters a nostalgic dream-world while marking time in a decaying Romanian seaport; two Russian brothers, one blind and one deaf, building an intricate model town during an interminable train ride across the steppe; a journalist whose interview with an artist turns into a dizzying roundelay of memory and image. Ghosts of the past mingle with the quiddities of modernity in a bewitching stew where lost masterpieces surface with translations in an invisible language; where image and photograph become mystically entwined, and where the very nature of reality takes on a shimmering sense of possibility and illusion.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141827; line-height: var(--tec-line-height-2); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-6); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />C. D. Rose is an award-winning short-story writer, and the author of the novels <i>The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure</i> and <i>Who’s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else</i>, as well as the story collection <i>The Blind Accordionist</i>. He lives in Hebden Bridge.</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: times; font-kerning: none;"><strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;">A book that belongs on the same shelf as Italo Calvino’s <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;">If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler,</em> Nabokov’s <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;">Pale Fire</em>, and several works by Zoran Zivkovic, Stanislaw Lem and David Markson.” — Michael Dirda, <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;">The Washington Post</em><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;" /><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; text-shadow: none;" />A collection of entrancing literary fables from an underrated master of the form.</strong></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #141827; line-height: var(--tec-line-height-2); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-3); 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He has written for <i>Literary Review,</i> <i>The Radio Times</i>, <i>Review 31</i> and various academic journals.</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-left: 40px;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-left: 40px;"><b>Amin Fatemi</b> is a translator and Irish literature scholar. He is currently finishing a volume of poetry translation of an indigenous oral poetry tradition in southeast Iran.<br /><br /><b>Antonio Gambacorta</b> is a translator and literary scholar, currently writing a collection of short stories, and editing two volumes on Samuel Beckett.</div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-left: 40px;"><br /></div><div style="color: #222222; margin-left: 40px;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Peter Robinson's </b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black;">latest collection of poetry is <i>Retrieved Attachments</i> (Two Rivers Press): </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Ftworiverspress.com%252Fshop%252Fbonjour-mr-inshaw%252F%26data%3D05%257C02%257Cw.davies3%2540reading.ac.uk%257C145e08266d604c113fc808dc110568de%257C4ffa3bc4ecfc48c09080f5e43ff90e5f%257C0%257C0%257C638403962135966446%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%253D%257C3000%257C%257C%257C%26sdata%3Demai8WY06Hj%252BFK8GpIJ1%252BuW0gTvbBp%252F1mRDC7QrBg9k%253D%26reserved%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1705345036338000&usg=AOvVaw0nNNF3zE5FcJ6pk3d2zs2U" href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftworiverspress.com%2Fshop%2Fbonjour-mr-inshaw%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cw.davies3%40reading.ac.uk%7C145e08266d604c113fc808dc110568de%7C4ffa3bc4ecfc48c09080f5e43ff90e5f%7C0%7C0%7C638403962135966446%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=emai8WY06Hj%2BFK8GpIJ1%2BuW0gTvbBp%2F1mRDC7QrBg9k%3D&reserved=0" style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244); color: #4285f4;" target="_blank"><span style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);">https://<wbr></wbr>tworiverspress.com/shop/<wbr></wbr>retrieved-attachments/</span></a><span style="color: black;">. His edition of Giorgio Bassani's Collected Poems, translated in collaboration with Roberta Antognini, has recently appeared from Agincourt Press in New York:</span><span style="color: black;"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.agincourtbooks.com%252Fbassani-the-collected-poems%26data%3D05%257C02%257Cw.davies3%2540reading.ac.uk%257C145e08266d604c113fc808dc110568de%257C4ffa3bc4ecfc48c09080f5e43ff90e5f%257C0%257C0%257C638403962135966446%257CUnknown%257CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%253D%257C3000%257C%257C%257C%26sdata%3D5CctgHQZlNyGGU84uHbm6apUPCoNjNL%252B0Ivi43D83ns%253D%26reserved%3D0&source=gmail&ust=1705345036338000&usg=AOvVaw34Bk_hFmEgYy_b-2J2Y8sD" href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.agincourtbooks.com%2Fbassani-the-collected-poems&data=05%7C02%7Cw.davies3%40reading.ac.uk%7C145e08266d604c113fc808dc110568de%7C4ffa3bc4ecfc48c09080f5e43ff90e5f%7C0%7C0%7C638403962135966446%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=5CctgHQZlNyGGU84uHbm6apUPCoNjNL%2B0Ivi43D83ns%3D&reserved=0" style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244); color: #4285f4;" target="_blank"><span style="border-color: rgb(66, 133, 244);">https://www.<wbr></wbr>agincourtbooks.com/bassani-<wbr></wbr>the-collected-poems</span></a><span style="color: black;">. Winner of the Cheltenham Prize and the John Florio Prize, he is Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Reading.</span></span><div dir="auto" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Andrea Romanzi</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> teaches Scandinavian Languages, Literatures and Translation at the University of Rome, Sapienza and Università Statale, Milan. He has translated several novels from Norwegian and English into Italian, and in 2019 he was awarded the Bodini Prize for best emerging translator for his translations from Norwegian.</span><br /><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></b></div><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />See the website: </b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://longitudines.com">https://longitudines.com</a> </b></span></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-82363093039866379652024-01-03T11:37:00.028+00:002024-01-03T21:55:35.685+00:00The Pale Usher's New Year Literary Quiz<p><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px;">To mark the New Year I'm sharing this quiz. It originally featured (in a slightly different form) in one of our live online gatherings back in 2020, which I hosted as 'The Pale Usher' (with acknowledgements to Herman Melville). </b></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>There are 23 questions (plus a warm-up exercise) and 100 points to be earned. Of course you <i>could</i> use the internet to find the answers, but where’s the fun in that? Please resist any temptation to do so because it will be much more satisfying if you tackle this as an analogue exercise. (You could, of course, collaborate with friends, family or bookish others. That would be nice.)</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></b><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="text-align: left;">This will take you 15-20 minutes to complete, or to fail to complete. </b><b>You’ll need a pencil and paper to keep your score. </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Ready?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>To warm up, simply match the title of the novel on the left to its author on the right. One point for each correct match</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><i></i><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><i></i><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cold Comfort Farm</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jilly Cooper<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Malarky</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Iris Murdoch<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Young Visiters</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Claire - Louise Bennett<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Some Tame Gazelle</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bernardine Evaristo<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Notebook</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Flannery O’Connor<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Riders</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Stella Gibbons<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Girl, Woman, Other</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Anakana Schofield<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A Good Man is Hard to Find</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Daisy Ashford<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nuns and Soldiers</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> Ágota Kristóf</span><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pond</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Barbara Pym</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 10 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Now on to round one.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Round 1</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>1. </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">What, apart from their varying degrees of celebrity, connects the following?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>Lord Byron<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>Charlemagne<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>Gabriele D'Annunzio<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>George Formby<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>J. G. Farrell<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><span> </span> </span>Sigmund Freud<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>Lilian Gish<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>Napoleon<br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>Edna St. Vincent Millay</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>2 points for the correct answer.</b><br /><b><br /></b><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>2. Curious deaths of noteworthy writers.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Two points for each correct identification. Which writer gave up the ghost . . .</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a) after swallowing a martini olive toothpick on a cruise liner? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>b) after choking on the plastic cap of an inhaler? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>c) after being felled by a tree struck by lightning in the <i>Avenue des Champs-Élysées</i> the day after expressing a fear of meeting <i>precisely</i> such an unlikely end?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>d) in 1973, after walking into the sea in Brighton? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>e) after claiming to have drunk 18 straight whiskies? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>f) suddenly, at the age of fifty-two, in digs, while drinking brandy to celebrate a BBC <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>commission? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 12 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>3. Man of letters.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Virginia Woolf described him as 'more repulsive than words can express, and malignant into the bargain'; Lytton Strachey called him 'a worm' and F. R. Leavis thought him 'the epitome of all that men mean by the word philistine'. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Which influential 1920s editor and critic attracted such obloquy? (Two points)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i>For a bonus point:</i> The editor and critic in question was also an acknowledged expert on what indigenous dairy product?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>4. What do poets know?</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Which distinguished 19th century poet believed that railway engines ran in grooves and that all cigars, regardless of size or quality, cost the same? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>5. A handy coinage</b>.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">'Kitchen sink' was the critical term applied to downbeat realist writing of the 1950s, and particularly to dramas such as <i>Look Back in Anger</i>. Where did this useful phrase originate? (Two points for a complete answer)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>6. Best. Limerick. Ever.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">For two points, which eminent historian wrote the following?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Seven ages, first puking and mewling,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Then very pissed off with one's schooling,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Then fucks, and then fights,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Then judging chaps' rights,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Then sitting in slippers, then drooling.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>7. Alliteration dept.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">With acknowledgements to <i>Nemo’s Almanac</i> . . . Two points for each author you correctly identify:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Academics, actors who lecture,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Apostles of architecture,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ancient gods-of-the-abdomen men,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Angst-pushers, adherents of Zen,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alastors, Austenites, A-test</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Abolishers.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>b) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We had chaw chaw chops, chairs, chewing gum, the chicken-</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>pox and china chambers</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universally provided by this soft-soaping salesman.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>c)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lock the door Lariston, lion of Liddisdale,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lock the door Lariston, Lowther comes on,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Armstrongs are flying,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Their widows are crying</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Castledown's burning, and Oliver's gone.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>d)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I caught this morning morning's minion, king-</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon in<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>his riding</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Of the rolling level underneath him steady air.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>e)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Womanhood, wanton, ye want;</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> You're medelying, mastres, is manerles;</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Plente of ill, of goodness slant,</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ye rayll at ryot, recheles.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 10 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>8. What a camp Jungian chum of mine calls 'a coinkidinky'.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">The wildly creative television cartoon series <i>Adventure Time </i>has two lead characters introduced in the credit sequence song of each episode as "Jake the dog and Finn the human". Here they are:<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguljIRCLwCNE1HK0nqNwpva0Ws_mZv8hEgm-7Dd0YevchYnAOpUCIhw5OCj172YNmYO8MNfpSo3wXGCq_LOJC6KMUEBDbnnzs7XQ6FU1NgHgZWsD-JwucttbS2penpEJB93tuok8rSSRrH/s1600/Unknown.jpeg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="206" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguljIRCLwCNE1HK0nqNwpva0Ws_mZv8hEgm-7Dd0YevchYnAOpUCIhw5OCj172YNmYO8MNfpSo3wXGCq_LOJC6KMUEBDbnnzs7XQ6FU1NgHgZWsD-JwucttbS2penpEJB93tuok8rSSRrH/s1600/Unknown.jpeg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Jake and Finn share their names with two characters in which debut novel by which twentieth century Dublin-born author? (One point each for the<i> </i>title of the novel and its author.)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>9. Playing Possum.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Perhaps the performers Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett had T. S. Eliot in mind when they named the gorilla companion of the enigmatic shaman Naboo in their cult telly series <i>The Mighty Boosh</i>. What's the connection? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Q0sWcQy-YqU4cD5cLm_EWtrJgDZHZ210zWgbRkO4aQb5vpRFoLKys7I9OFX8IXkXDH5m_6cSyig_H6p2U1H3Kk_2hpTpO2iEiSaQBL3nW_Fn6tj2Cuj1Z_CKNDxuF6mWRZlDStcdsQ_n/s1600/OIP.T_begwg6n-RoUuA6_StaiwFNC7.jpeg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="160" data-original-width="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2Q0sWcQy-YqU4cD5cLm_EWtrJgDZHZ210zWgbRkO4aQb5vpRFoLKys7I9OFX8IXkXDH5m_6cSyig_H6p2U1H3Kk_2hpTpO2iEiSaQBL3nW_Fn6tj2Cuj1Z_CKNDxuF6mWRZlDStcdsQ_n/s1600/OIP.T_begwg6n-RoUuA6_StaiwFNC7.jpeg" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px;"><br /><i style="font-family: baskerville; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">(from left) </i><span style="font-family: baskerville; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> Barrett, gorilla, Fielding</span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: baskerville; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify; white-space: pre;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjn2ZLWP9GwV5va55cMq97sWdA3bJMiwEj37vtabmuNZMgOM5znmg-vXBvJDEIjR6gf2bmjrs9ZTYLAA1UvxP8OXsf-8A9Z1r79o0Wmjn1xRjJ7FX1EjS7SSviPpjqw2YDaA01po3l2Gua/s1600/OIP._-OLg4AfceZjFm5KvhlQxQHaHV.jpeg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjn2ZLWP9GwV5va55cMq97sWdA3bJMiwEj37vtabmuNZMgOM5znmg-vXBvJDEIjR6gf2bmjrs9ZTYLAA1UvxP8OXsf-8A9Z1r79o0Wmjn1xRjJ7FX1EjS7SSviPpjqw2YDaA01po3l2Gua/s1600/OIP._-OLg4AfceZjFm5KvhlQxQHaHV.jpeg" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 9.6px;"><span style="font-family: baskerville; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> </span><i style="font-family: baskerville; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">(from left)</i><span style="font-family: baskerville; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> Eliot, Eliot, Eliot</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>10. Handsome tribute (unsolicited).</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Which poet said to which man of letters, following the memorial service for which other poet: 'Sir, you <i>formed</i> me!' (Name all three, one point for each)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Round 2</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>11. Ouch.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Which poet wrote to another poet about a third poet on 5th September 1946? Name all three poets, with one point for each.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'I used to think that he knew how to put down good words. And now I have been reading <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[…], a poetry book. And I find in the words of this book there is a lot of poll <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>lis sill ab bick fuss sin ness (“the total generosity of original unforewarned fearful trust”), <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and a lot of ad dough less scent sew dough Smith oller gee (“Oh, which are the actors, <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>which the audience?”), and a lot of Europe-falling-about-our ears and Oh-my-dearest and <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>playing with abstractions […] and your-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>eyes-are-mineshafts -to-your-heart and <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>HELPLESS GESTURES […] because HE CAN’T THINK WHAT TO SAY.'</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>12. Nasty, very.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Which modernist English writer and painter reminded which modernist American writer of 'toe jam'? (One point for each writer, and a third point if you identify the volume in which the unflattering description appears.)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>13. In praise of . . .</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Through who or what is Christopher Smart (1722-1771) expressing his reverence in these lines? (2 points) </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">For a bonus point, what was the category of Smart’s accommodation when he wrote the poetry (<i>A Song to David</i> and<i> Jubilate Agno</i>) by which he is remembered? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>14. Book of the film.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">In the French novel <i>D'entre des mortes</i> by the writing team of Boileau-Narcejac, a wealthy businessman named Gévigne employs an ex-cop called Flavières to follow his troubled wife around the boulevards of pre-Occupation Paris.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">In which film, adapted from the novel, are the two male characters named, respectively, Gavin Elster and 'Scotty' Ferguson (one point) and in which city is the film set (one point)?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>15. Mind the gap.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Source the following breathless phrases (Two points for each)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a)<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">'coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkinssaladfrenchrollscresssandwichespottedmeatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater—'</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>b)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Bothallchoractorschumminaroundgansumuminarumdrumstrumtruminahumptdumpwaultopoofoolooderamaunsturnup</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">c) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: left;">I'veneverbeensoinsultedinallmylife (clue - it's in the only novel published by a writer already featured in this quiz)</div></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 6 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>16. Audience reaction.</b> </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Which modernist author was transfixed by a technical flaw in the projection during a matinee screening of <i>The Cabinet of Dr Caligari,</i> later writing about the experience for an American magazine. The flaw caused a large black formless blob to appear briefly, which struck the author as a possible representation of consciousness, or something.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqiXI6j1Wt0DPyhBqSZhHcTkwIRhYlAbPPDy2ZWE7bIcK0jRBneg_7fFkUiSLpFAvxdzjb62hSvay5kHFUCTKEriDNy6zYB9qZOPNVUm-pNJ3T1vUpKnyamVuM8pzSf8KceawqVxWdpvWD/s1600/OIP.6pqPsUwrkA5C-lHj1wFTKAHaFh.jpeg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqiXI6j1Wt0DPyhBqSZhHcTkwIRhYlAbPPDy2ZWE7bIcK0jRBneg_7fFkUiSLpFAvxdzjb62hSvay5kHFUCTKEriDNy6zYB9qZOPNVUm-pNJ3T1vUpKnyamVuM8pzSf8KceawqVxWdpvWD/s1600/OIP.6pqPsUwrkA5C-lHj1wFTKAHaFh.jpeg" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.2px;"><span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Caligari: A Room of One’s Owner (clue)</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><i></i><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>17. Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit / Of that Forbidden Tree</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Writer/director Armando Iannucci once observed that Milton's opening lines from <i>Paradise Lost</i> can be sung to the theme tune of which popular American cartoon series? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>18. A three-pipe problem.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">What <i>precise</i> London address was home to Sherlock Holmes, the world's only consulting detective? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 5px; position: relative; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA4hZ7j1gH3NFAwTYoKwJGGIQCULW_ROwkG_KlKy42V0EQdVH3NLGzEknt2wJTSl6x89dNSytVCFwkmz9vkXxdgXsr93khNk29XDAG9X12_UJjq3c15mUS6B23fSZ3GO1DojYtHdlcNN1h/s1600/OIP.eYirDqJ7oHpp5Dc_Jxu2ygHaKh.jpeg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="173" data-original-width="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA4hZ7j1gH3NFAwTYoKwJGGIQCULW_ROwkG_KlKy42V0EQdVH3NLGzEknt2wJTSl6x89dNSytVCFwkmz9vkXxdgXsr93khNk29XDAG9X12_UJjq3c15mUS6B23fSZ3GO1DojYtHdlcNN1h/s1600/OIP.eYirDqJ7oHpp5Dc_Jxu2ygHaKh.jpeg" style="background: transparent; border: none; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 11.2px;">Holmes' Sweet Home</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 1 point.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><b><br /><br /></b><b>19. Little known fact.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">For two points, which celebrated poem, written in 1935, originally began in an early draft: </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>North, north, north </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>To the country of the Clyde and the Firth of Forth. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">For a bonus point, what’s the next line (which appears as the first line in the published poem)?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>20. A link to bygone days of yore.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">To date, ten British writers have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The first was Rudyard Kipling in 1907. Name the other nine (with one point for each). </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 9 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;">Round 3</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>21. Noms des plume.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Which Victorian author published under the pseudonyms George Savage Fitz-Boodle, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, Théophile Wagstaff and C.J. Yellowplush, Esq. ? </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 1 point</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>22. What do the initials stand for? </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Two points for each complete name. (One point if you get only one)</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">a) W. H. Auden</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">b) J. M. Barrie</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">c) P. D. James</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">d) C. S. Lewis</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">e) J. K. Rowling</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 10 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>23. Dead trims</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">The following celebrated authors all have interesting hair. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">One point for each one you correctly identify.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">(a) Clearly survived a William Tell incident in the roaring ‘20s.<br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVNNUgTaYEeqZPm5V3-tMTPP6MTLhYx6KmnyF5nYfDLpTLkg1PbqE0S7mrj4sIukwrEEKyyDBy793juIdBTm3f4daW_BUcvKX6ttdqIXRRCdJSTHROovOZ2k1mJZSbIj02xVrFtoh1cP1e/s1600/OIP.XUX3_og5p3bbvZlRkTx1VwHaFj.jpeg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="146" data-original-width="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVNNUgTaYEeqZPm5V3-tMTPP6MTLhYx6KmnyF5nYfDLpTLkg1PbqE0S7mrj4sIukwrEEKyyDBy793juIdBTm3f4daW_BUcvKX6ttdqIXRRCdJSTHROovOZ2k1mJZSbIj02xVrFtoh1cP1e/s1600/OIP.XUX3_og5p3bbvZlRkTx1VwHaFj.jpeg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a></div><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">(b) His London landlady thought that her tenant looked like ‘Our Lord’.<br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?tab=wj&blogID=8534536753236336876" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?tab=wj&blogID=8534536753236336876" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?tab=wj&blogID=8534536753236336876" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?tab=wj&blogID=8534536753236336876" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?tab=wj&blogID=8534536753236336876" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?tab=wj&blogID=8534536753236336876" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?tab=wj&blogID=8534536753236336876" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?tab=wj&blogID=8534536753236336876" style="clear: right; color: #2288bb; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcPp9bn2iuEfhhgtQNIyzFIoGzrVmOBGkdj9sgr9B0trCm-KJe7_tWUaYDE7z8RZmJDV1JUrWE5oTgDq68ZCOD_tr15vNHHxLIEii-MjerSoJtp5uEOnyo756MIpk49zuSJ0b_sYeeQ_SE/s1600/OIP.3y2BFS4Ci6i1zLGl2p9mkQHaLr.jpeg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="278" data-original-width="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcPp9bn2iuEfhhgtQNIyzFIoGzrVmOBGkdj9sgr9B0trCm-KJe7_tWUaYDE7z8RZmJDV1JUrWE5oTgDq68ZCOD_tr15vNHHxLIEii-MjerSoJtp5uEOnyo756MIpk49zuSJ0b_sYeeQ_SE/s1600/OIP.3y2BFS4Ci6i1zLGl2p9mkQHaLr.jpeg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a></div><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">(c) A combover beginning just south of his left hip.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivGlrCEVeb-Gy8I8arfG4D2UPb175r-2QNyE1DZ-eWgmvRC0qPYMIoXfDDkIkXxQD6mVZuxqusiwgmcoLYsSciXBLyf_TFcHYW3JtMtK_1uyPpW5HOpqaGDLMhGQ2xQJx2GqTIP3wyjJNK/s1600/Unknown-1.jpeg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="162" data-original-width="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivGlrCEVeb-Gy8I8arfG4D2UPb175r-2QNyE1DZ-eWgmvRC0qPYMIoXfDDkIkXxQD6mVZuxqusiwgmcoLYsSciXBLyf_TFcHYW3JtMtK_1uyPpW5HOpqaGDLMhGQ2xQJx2GqTIP3wyjJNK/s1600/Unknown-1.jpeg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">(d) The doctor will see you now.<br /><b><br /></b><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUgZG7IewXgX53xImAzLbynDPDuVL3fcQwkPOs0ljCbGAKBKStEJNWlCFLGkVgnEgrYson7jBO4P-I-iVBF7rFNZkH2Sn2k2QZh3yd5hNrkWU_Rjmv83brfqKOr6D-e4skJzlWFVgi8a9B/s1600/OIP.PZNQNj349J97I9FTK2QmTwHaLH.jpeg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="163" data-original-width="115" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUgZG7IewXgX53xImAzLbynDPDuVL3fcQwkPOs0ljCbGAKBKStEJNWlCFLGkVgnEgrYson7jBO4P-I-iVBF7rFNZkH2Sn2k2QZh3yd5hNrkWU_Rjmv83brfqKOr6D-e4skJzlWFVgi8a9B/s1600/OIP.PZNQNj349J97I9FTK2QmTwHaLH.jpeg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a></div><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">(e) You looking at me?</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMgKQOhIicpfBuTXbieK17200l7EVEQIppqM9fzQEqOR_5fwvroQv6QqpZmxV4hPuqX-dLLwDnCkcoOF-fxY0koI8JYhg1wDRz85J_5XxkadEqNNBpulWnhVmbwKqeGfF2erkJ03MKsESA/s1600/OIP.C1w-_s8g7qUhMZ831f_DFwHaKO.jpeg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMgKQOhIicpfBuTXbieK17200l7EVEQIppqM9fzQEqOR_5fwvroQv6QqpZmxV4hPuqX-dLLwDnCkcoOF-fxY0koI8JYhg1wDRz85J_5XxkadEqNNBpulWnhVmbwKqeGfF2erkJ03MKsESA/s1600/OIP.C1w-_s8g7qUhMZ831f_DFwHaKO.jpeg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" /></a></div><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 5 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Cumulative total 100 points.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Fin</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>That’s it. Email me for the answers, or wait until I post them on Friday January 5th.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-68960426957621203222024-01-03T01:02:00.057+00:002024-01-05T12:22:22.350+00:00Quiz answers<p> <b style="color: #ff2600; font-family: courier; font-size: 18px; text-align: justify;">The Pale Usher’s New Year Literary Quiz </b></p><div style="font-family: courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /><i style="font-family: baskerville; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><b><br /></b></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b>Thanks for taking part. Here are the answers (if you need them):</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><i></i><br />Warm-up round:</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cold Comfort Farm</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Stella Gibbons</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i>Malarky</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Anakana Schofield</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i>The Young Visiters</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Daisy Ashford</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Some Tame Gazelle</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Barbara Pym</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Notebook</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span>Ágota Kristóf</span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Riders</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Jilly Cooper</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Girl, Woman, Other</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Bernardine Evaristo</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A Good Man is Hard to Find</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Flannery O’Connor</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Nuns and Soldiers</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Iris Murdoch</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pond</i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span><span> </span></span>Claire-Louise Bennett</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 10 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Now, on to round one.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Round 1</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>1. </b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">For two points what, apart from their varying degrees of celebrity, connects the following?</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>Lord Byron</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span> </span><span> </span>Charlemagne</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span> </span>Gabriele D'Annunzio</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>George Formby</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>J. G. Farrell</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>Sigmund Freud</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>Lilian Gish</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>Napoleon</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>Edna St. Vincent Millay</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>They were all born with a caul. That’s all.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>2. Curious deaths of noteworthy writers.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Two points for each correct identification. Which writer gave up the ghost . . .</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a) after swallowing a martini olive toothpick on a cruise liner? </div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>The American writer Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) died of internal bleeding after </b><b>swallowing the toothpick along with the cocktail. It's not so unusual - since 1900, and quite incredibly, more than </b><b>17,000 people have met their end thus, and is there any more stylish way to die accidentally?</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>b) after choking on the plastic cap of his inhaler? </div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tennessee Williams</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>c) after being felled by a tree struck by lightning in the <i>Avenue des Champs-Élysées</i> the <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>day after he expressed a fear of meeting <i>precisely</i> such an unlikely end?</div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><b>Ödön von Horváth, poor lamb</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>d) in 1973, after walking into the sea near her home in Brighton? </div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><b>Ann Quin</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>e) after claiming to have drunk 18 straight whiskies? </div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="white-space: pre;"><span style="color: red; font-family: times;"><b>Dylan Thomas</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>f) suddenly, at the age of fifty-two, in digs, while drinking brandy to celebrate a BBC <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>commission? </div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b> </b></span><b>Julian Maclaren-Ross</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 12 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>3. Man of letters.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Virginia Woolf described him as 'more repulsive than words can express, and malignant into the bargain'; Lytton Strachey called him 'a worm' and F. R. Leavis thought him 'the epitome of all that men mean by the word philistine'. Which influential 1920s editor and critic attracted such obloquy? (Two points)</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>It was J C Squire. If you ever get the chance do read his extraordinary modernist poem <i>The Stockyards</i>, which rivals <i>The Waste Land</i>. Really.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><i>For a bonus point:</i> The editor in question was also an acknowledged expert on what indigenous dairy product?</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Stilton Cheese (Unrelatedly, Cyril Connolly's very odd father was an acknowledged authority on two subjects: Belgian paté and African Land Snails)</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>4. What do poets know?</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Which pre-eminent 19th century poet believed that railway engines ran in grooves and that all cigars, regardless of size or quality, cost the same? </div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Alfred, Lord Tennyson.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>"When I went by the first train from Liverpool to Manchester (1830), I thought that the wheels ran in a groove. It was a black night and there was such a vast crowd round the train at the station that we could not see the wheels. Then I made this line: 'Let the great world spin for down the ringing grooves of change.' (‘Locksley Hall’). </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><b>I've forgotten where I read about the cigars - perhaps it was Auden's distinctly lukewarm introduction to a selection of Tennyson's verse in which he describes the venerated Laureate as 'possibly the stupidest of all poets.'</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>5. A handy coinage</b>.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">'Kitchen sink' was the critical term applied to much downbeat realist writing of the 1950s. Where did this useful phrase originate? (Two points for a complete answer)</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>It was David Sylvester, on a painting of that title by John Bratby. And here it is:</b></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifyo4lgD0n3pAbbvkwN_jDcw33pW8JLMNxxUzQnYvyPIGpOkYRJ-WmwAqpOtteTeP6N177t9yVmgZBQwD6KeO3H6pLGZRL95SZVuXCLfG0fZlgefV-tgX6Cme44CnCeKz7Cq_nRBUahT2Hq6747NCCi5J7SfCKy9KchcbUolbRX4DCK7Sx9kkW9EmUIUQM" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="186" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEifyo4lgD0n3pAbbvkwN_jDcw33pW8JLMNxxUzQnYvyPIGpOkYRJ-WmwAqpOtteTeP6N177t9yVmgZBQwD6KeO3H6pLGZRL95SZVuXCLfG0fZlgefV-tgX6Cme44CnCeKz7Cq_nRBUahT2Hq6747NCCi5J7SfCKy9KchcbUolbRX4DCK7Sx9kkW9EmUIUQM" width="165" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>6. Best. Limerick. Ever.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">For two points, which acclaimed historian wrote the following lines?</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Seven ages, first puking and mewling,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Then very pissed off with one's schooling,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Then fucks, and then fights,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Then judging chaps' rights,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Then sitting in slippers, then drooling.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Robert Conquest, master limericist. Here's another one by him:</b></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> There was an old bastard named Lenin</b></span></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> Who did two or three million men in.</b></span></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> That's a lot to have done in</b></span></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> But where he did one in</b></span></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-kerning: none;"><b> That old bastard Stalin did ten in.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>7. Alliteration dept. (1)</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Two points for each author you correctly identify:</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Academics, actors who lecture,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Apostles of architecture,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Ancient gods-of-the-abdomen men,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Angst-pushers, adherents of Zen,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Alastors, Austenites, A-test</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Abolishers.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Kingsley Amis </b></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>b) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We had chaw chaw chops, chairs, chewing gum, the chicken-</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>pox and china chambers</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Universally provided by this soft-soaping salesman.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>James Joyce. It’s ‘The Ballad of Persse O’Reilly’ from <i>Finnegans Wake</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>c)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lock the door Lariston, lion of Liddisdale,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Lock the door Lariston, Lowther comes on,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Armstrongs are flying,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Their widows are crying</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Castledown's burning, and Oliver's gone.</div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>A traditional Scottish song by James Hogg.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>d)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I caught this morning morning's minion, king-</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon in<span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>his riding</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Of the rolling level underneath him steady air.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Hopkins, who else?</b><span style="color: black;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>e)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Womanhood, wanton, ye want;</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> You're medelying, mastres, is manerles;</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Plente of ill, of goodness slant,</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ye rayll at ryot, recheles.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>John Skelton. From the wonderfully nasty <i>Womanhood, wanton, ye want.</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 10 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>8. What a camp Jungian chum of mine calls 'a coinkidinky'.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">The wildly creative television cartoon series <i>Adventure Time </i>has two lead characters introduced in the credit sequence song of each episode as "Jake the dog and Finn the human". </div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Jake and Finn share their names with two characters in which debut novel by which twentieth century author? (One point</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">each for the<i> </i>title of the novel and its author.)</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Jake and Finn are two characters in <i>Under the Net </i>by Iris Murdoch. </b></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px;">And here are various versions of the<i> Adventure Time</i> theme tune performed by the show's creator Pendleton Ward and others. </b><span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ing1lOzmGA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ing1lOzmGA</a> </b></span></span></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville;"><b>Constantly astonishing.</b></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>9. Playing Possum.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Perhaps Noel Fielding and Julian Barrett had T. S. Eliot in mind when they named the gorilla companion of the enigmatic shaman Naboo in the telly series <i>The Mighty Boosh</i>. What's the connection? (Two points)</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px;">Naboo's gorilla familiar is called Bollo. Old Possum used to send his chum Bonamy </b><span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville;"><b>Dobrée</b></span></span><b style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px;"> no end of smutty racist doggerel about the African potentate King Bollo 'and his big black queen' who were 'so obscene / they shocked the folk of Golders Green.' </b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>10. Handsome tribute, unsolicited.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Which poet said to which man of letters, after the memorial service for which other poet: 'Sir, you <i>formed</i> me!' (One point for each)</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>It was Phillip Larkin to Cyril Connolly at the memorial service for Sir John Betjeman. Larkin was presumably referring to Connolly’s role as editor of the influential wartime literary magazine <i>Horizon</i>.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Running total 50 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Round 2</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>11. Ouch.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">One poet writes to another poet about a third poet on 5th September 1946. Name all three poets, with one point for each.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'I used to think that he knew how to put down good words. And now I have been reading <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>[…], a poetry book. And I find in the words of this book there is a lot of poll <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>lis sill ab bick fuss sin ness (“the total generosity of original unforewarned fearful trust”), <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>and a lot of ad dough less scent sew dough Smith oller gee (“Oh, which are the actors, <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>which the audience?”), and a lot of Europe-falling-about-our ears and Oh-my-dearest and <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>playing with abstractions […] and your-<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>eyes-are-mineshafts-to-your-heart and HELPLESS GESTURES […] because HE CAN’T THINK WHAT TO SAY.'</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Kinglsey Amis (again) to Phillip Larkin (again), writing about Stephen Spender.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>12. Nasty, very.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Which modernist English writer and painter reminded which modernist American writer of 'toe jam'? (One point for each writer, and a third point if you identify the volume in which the unflattering description appears.)</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>It was Wyndham Lewis who prompted this description by Ernest Hemingway in the latter’s memoir <i>A Moveable Feast. </i></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>13. In praise of …</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Through who or what is Christopher Smart (1722-1771) expressing his reverence in these lines? (2 points) </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For he is the servant of the Living God, duly and daily serving him. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way. </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">For a bonus point, what was the category of Smart’s accommodation when he wrote the poetry (<i>A Song to David</i> and <i>Jubilate Agno</i>) by which he is remembered? </div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>It’s his cat Jeoffrey. And Smart was, at the time of writing, committed to an asylum.</b></div><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>14. Book of the film.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">In the French novel <i>D'entre des mortes</i> by the writing team of Boileau-Narcejac, a wealthy businessman named Gévigne employs an ex-cop called Flavières to follow his troubled wife around the boulevards of pre-Occupation Paris.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">In which film, adapted from the novel, are the two male characters named, respectively, Gavin Elster and 'Scotty' Ferguson (one point) and in which city is the film set (one point)?</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Hithcock’s <i>Vertigo</i>, which was set in San Fransisco.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>15. Mind the gap.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Source the following breathless phrases (Two points for each)</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>a)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>'coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickledgherkinssaladfrenchrollscresssandwichespott<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>edmeatgingerbeerlemonadesodawater—'</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><b>It's Ratty to Mole in <i>The Wind in the Willows</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>b)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bothallchoractorschumminaroundgansumuminarumdrumstrumtruminahumpto<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>dumpwaultopoofoolooderamaunsturnup</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><b>One of the ten thunderclaps in <i>Finnegans Wake</i></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>c) <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>I'veneverbeensoinsultedinallmylife (clue - this comes from the only novel by a writer already featured in this quiz)</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><b>From <i>The Rock Pool </i>by Cyril Connolly</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 6 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>16. Audience reaction.</b> </div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Who was transfixed by what may have been ‘a hair in the gate’ during a matinee screening of <i>The Cabinet of Dr Caligari,</i> later writing about the experience for an American magazine.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Virginia Woolf who was, with her friend T. S. Eliot, one of the founder <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>members of the London Film Society.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><i></i><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>17. Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit / Of that Forbidden Tree</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Writer/director Armando Iannucci once observed that Milton's opening lines from <i>Paradise Lost</i> can be sung to the theme tune of which popular American cartoon series? </div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><b>The Flintstones</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><b>Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones. </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>They're the modern stone age family. </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>From the town of Bedrock, </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>They're a page right out of history. </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Let's ride with the family down the street. </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet. </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>When you're with the Flintstones </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Have a yabba dabba doo time. </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>A dabba doo time. </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>We'll have a gay old time. </b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 2 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>18. Not a lot of people know that.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">What <i>precise</i> London address was home to Sherlock Holmes, the world's only consulting detective? </div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff4013; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>It was 221 Baker Street. The 'B' is a later addition, and non-canonical.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 1 point</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>19. Little known fact.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">For two points, which celebrated poem, written in 1935, originally began in an early draft: </div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>North, north, north </div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> <span> </span></span>To the country of the Clyde and the Firth of Forth. </div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">For a bonus point, what’s the next line (which appears as the first line in the published poem)?</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>It’s ‘Night Mail’ by W. H. Auden. The first line of which in the published version goes ‘This is the Night Mail crossing the border’ . . .</b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 3 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>20. A link to bygone days of yore.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">To date ten British writers have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. The first was Rudyard Kipling in 1907. Name the other nine (with one point for each).</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>John Galsworthy (1932)</b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>T.S. Eliot (1948)</b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bertrand Russell (1950)</b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Winston Churchill (1953)</b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>William Golding (1983)</b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Harold Pinter (2005)</b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Doris Lessing (2007)</b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b> Kazuo Ishiguro (2017)</b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b> Abdulrazak Gurnha (2021)</b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></div></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Elias Canetti (1981) was born in Bulgaria but, like T. S. Eliot, had become a naturalised British citizen by the time he was awarded the Prize. Does he count? </b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 9 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>21. Noms des plume.</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Which eminent Victorian author published under the pseudonyms George Savage Fitz-Boodle, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, Théophile Wagstaff and C.J. Yellowplush, Esq. ? (One point)</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Anthony Trollope</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 1 point</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>22. What do the initials stand for? </b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Two points for each complete name.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">a) W. H. Auden</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">b) J. M. Barrie</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">c) P. D. James</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">d) C. S. Lewis</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">e) J. K. Rowling</div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Wystan Hugh Auden, </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>James Matthew Barrie, </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Phyllis Dorothy James, </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Clive Staples Lewis and </b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Joanna Rowling (she made up the K, which stands for nothing. You get a point for knowing this).</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 10 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>23. Dead trims</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">Each of the following celebrated writers has interesting hair. </div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;">One point for each author you correctly identify.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>(a) </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff2600;"><b>F. Scott Fitzgerald</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>(b) </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff2600;"><b>Ezra Pound</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>(c) </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff2600;"><b>Anthony Burgess</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>(d) </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff2600;"><b>Michel Houellebecq</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>(e) </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff2600;"><b>Antonin Artaud</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Total 5 marks</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Running total 100 points</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="color: #ff2600; font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>Fin</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><b>That’s it. </b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b>Your score</b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b>Under 20</b> It's only a quiz. Just walk away, head held high, your reputation unsullied.</div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b>21-49</b> It's still only a quiz. Pretty good, I suppose. </div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b>50-75</b><span> </span><span> </span><span> We both need to get out more.. </span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Over 75</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Baskerville;">Hypocrite lecteur! – mon semblable, -mon frère!</span></span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: courier; text-align: start;">There are still a few copies of</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: courier; text-align: start;"> Multiple Joyce </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: courier; text-align: start;">left and they're likely to be valuable collector's items because they are, uniquely, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: courier; text-align: start;">unsigned</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: courier; text-align: start;">.</span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjabpgfpsfVJflJLs5uGmWLPZGQDrQhPMVuWE-vG6q2Xki7ArjwM1CXWTx7hf-QRMZNxcTWc66uUWcy-Kx5vQ2MccGu2fCHsnJyW_smsug_IbqqW0dilpjJr_7p4T4BKe6Pi8ackbvdK4d_DuVdx0gem_w1uKP4IICkKXfmz5DjGz-ECrf8qTFg-XdZhA" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjabpgfpsfVJflJLs5uGmWLPZGQDrQhPMVuWE-vG6q2Xki7ArjwM1CXWTx7hf-QRMZNxcTWc66uUWcy-Kx5vQ2MccGu2fCHsnJyW_smsug_IbqqW0dilpjJr_7p4T4BKe6Pi8ackbvdK4d_DuVdx0gem_w1uKP4IICkKXfmz5DjGz-ECrf8qTFg-XdZhA" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="164" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Buy buy buy here here here: </span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><b>https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/</b></a></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;">And here's a recording of me gassing on about the links between Joyce and Anthony Burgess with Andrew Biswell of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9KOGaXjxo" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Burgess Foundation</a>. Perfect easy listening for this time of the year. </span></div></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Baskerville; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 16px; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br />David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-69222988422145400392023-12-30T08:49:00.060+00:002024-01-02T11:59:09.262+00:00The Butcher's Dozen: looking back at 2023<p>The Butcher's Dozen was a short series of 11 gatherings, both in real venues and online, spread over the past six months and featuring some porky prime cuts, as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>1. Thursday 8th June</b>: </p><p>Live launch of Wes Brown’s <i>Breaking Kayfabe</i> (Bluemoose Books) at Waterstones, Gower Street. Here I am with the author deploying my trademark headlock. You could smell the fear.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibrjp-H7BBGW2J45J7LlKwsOf2ddOj7rZJbJ-pc_xbUQ3SZlEFYlgQyd_LU8p4hbeU8kXwDuQKZJe-QHrHllRhVk1B18xF-MGw1jIrICqNYhLiM8fkU5__vDRbMAPvxjLEYdhc9eoSKblZ7GpUwpZwGbLzgSKylAvOrTlcgDwbxbWcIo0J0BiQdKDW3288" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="880" data-original-width="1168" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibrjp-H7BBGW2J45J7LlKwsOf2ddOj7rZJbJ-pc_xbUQ3SZlEFYlgQyd_LU8p4hbeU8kXwDuQKZJe-QHrHllRhVk1B18xF-MGw1jIrICqNYhLiM8fkU5__vDRbMAPvxjLEYdhc9eoSKblZ7GpUwpZwGbLzgSKylAvOrTlcgDwbxbWcIo0J0BiQdKDW3288" width="319" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYOrpldGGP2kKkgVDRPzFhFTe-oqXX3909pVO8-I61Qf1cQTTpuaip5O4xsFsK7zeEhyi6SeCuz6DIRmkVBmTv6WVbNkSFMvDxnm39oy5yair7G7-Gbab1bRXLh2F4kqOT8AI7rwtk9AYo9OqQQTbVn0lM4zrLKq6lY38WlZluheFj1EgG4gNlEOaHX1dK" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="608" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYOrpldGGP2kKkgVDRPzFhFTe-oqXX3909pVO8-I61Qf1cQTTpuaip5O4xsFsK7zeEhyi6SeCuz6DIRmkVBmTv6WVbNkSFMvDxnm39oy5yair7G7-Gbab1bRXLh2F4kqOT8AI7rwtk9AYo9OqQQTbVn0lM4zrLKq6lY38WlZluheFj1EgG4gNlEOaHX1dK=w218-h307" width="218" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><b>2. Wednesday 14th June</b>: </p><p><i>Power Gam</i>e: a live performance at the London College of Communication. Among those taking part were Amy McCauley, Ping and David Henningham and Laura Hopkins. The performance involved a version of the card game <i>Chemin de Fer</i>, and I was the croupier. It was based on the original Power Game performance devised by the artist Liliane Lijn. First staged during the Festival for Chilean Liberation at the Royal College of Art, London in 1974, Power Game 'holds a mirror to our preconceptions and our fantasies of power.' There's no script, no actors, no rehearsals. </p><p><b>3. Friday 16th June:</b></p><p>An online Bloomsday gathering, with me banging on about different editions of the novel (and recommending the cheap Dover edition (below), a facsimile of the copy that Joyce would have known, complete with thousands of errors. This version is the real <i>Ulysses</i> - an urgent despatch from the frontline of modernism. I'm not much interested in later editorial interventions, which strike me as layers of varnish concealing the original. This is the one for me.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjc-oEpAYSmlDDli8LaLrCph88AU00EaHURrDBTOP1M3qEP3DhpVLEln6dFCRQdioOYYgX0Ex-57Grm1w5Y-rojKPHX0N4b9PCIIzV_2Iu4TDZjez7CAdZ0JtP0uDCe6pQtMXlTky8aGypRwz2vwLUzBdAfrjcmZi7sQqwxGW37lNy3icyv8-BvjiE4sbsH" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="650" height="163" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjc-oEpAYSmlDDli8LaLrCph88AU00EaHURrDBTOP1M3qEP3DhpVLEln6dFCRQdioOYYgX0Ex-57Grm1w5Y-rojKPHX0N4b9PCIIzV_2Iu4TDZjez7CAdZ0JtP0uDCe6pQtMXlTky8aGypRwz2vwLUzBdAfrjcmZi7sQqwxGW37lNy3icyv8-BvjiE4sbsH" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p><b>4. Friday 23rd June</b>: </p><p>Online launch of Paul Griffiths’ <i>let me go on</i> hosted by Henningham Family Press.</p><p>I was in the Beckett Archive at Reading University that day so unable to attend this launch of Paul Griffiths' long-awaited sequel to <i>let me tell you</i> (also published by the Henninghams). By way of compensation I write about both books in the December 2023 issue of <i>Literary Review. </i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8l1f6kTzTkxOsyp0R7wBtcyIzM2LEdTGU4zLzKeWbdDvO_QTWoekaxK8Xv8R8qOVUpqdF7x4Bu3VA7b-UYaD2BdK82NkqAMfzFNu5HpqFCcP3P7TvYhBmRDehCY9D84OcmpCrj9xVkbWoRLfFOyKuyRaa5x_TCsrELSqFjCuxtFudVlpPwClOqHYBGt2W" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="890" data-original-width="680" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi8l1f6kTzTkxOsyp0R7wBtcyIzM2LEdTGU4zLzKeWbdDvO_QTWoekaxK8Xv8R8qOVUpqdF7x4Bu3VA7b-UYaD2BdK82NkqAMfzFNu5HpqFCcP3P7TvYhBmRDehCY9D84OcmpCrj9xVkbWoRLfFOyKuyRaa5x_TCsrELSqFjCuxtFudVlpPwClOqHYBGt2W" width="183" /></a></i></div><div style="font-style: italic;"><i><br /></i></div><div>Read Lara Lara Pawson's review in <i>The Guardian </i><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/dec/15/let-me-go-on-by-paul-griffiths-review-an-exquisite-experiment">here</a>.</div><br /><p></p><p><b>5. Thursday 27th July</b>:</p><p>Online launch of <i>The Hinge of Metaphor</i> (a new and inspiring collection of essays about cinema) with publisher Richard Skinner and contributors Dan Dalton, Dan O'Brien, Susana Media, Tony White and myself (stepping in at the last minute) blathering on about Hitchcock's under-rated <i>The Trouble with Harry.</i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyHLnZihSDWnaeH9uT7140e9nyqJ3pQOOVKwlhuR4JJhkYExxUF2ZoHcJtlTVS2RXxHYYTKLLXlBH1NgHD1KeLZYPOmtntjLALFGEqI-i-l3CIqxvLNbZIKO859yKm0umurd3LrYgAqAMvdI4_h9FCLWqNKIGL0_8s-Uroj2E8cFKXjStEuGFWXqgGjSKA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="2612" height="156" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhyHLnZihSDWnaeH9uT7140e9nyqJ3pQOOVKwlhuR4JJhkYExxUF2ZoHcJtlTVS2RXxHYYTKLLXlBH1NgHD1KeLZYPOmtntjLALFGEqI-i-l3CIqxvLNbZIKO859yKm0umurd3LrYgAqAMvdI4_h9FCLWqNKIGL0_8s-Uroj2E8cFKXjStEuGFWXqgGjSKA=w707-h156" width="707" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><b>6. Friday 25th August</b></p><p>The online launch (in two parts, before and after the watershed) of BDSM superstar Ariel Anderssen’s memoir <i>Playing to Lose </i>(published by Unbound). One of my books of the year, and a real eye-opener. </p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCtShp57SG4OusM-du7di1FJe8Ha01AIji7KQ9LLfPZ3KhvkQr-ppO9DnkMP-RPeii4mmmZ_pXOaFs2fpDaPCeblpBy5LyxajLKFMSgpoiYMh5JpZjXRSqo6GGJ7h0t6E5kfYnFW3Wi4Drm6z0utifp69y8gCZG82FSpsz0WIQLy89iuZJGjsV89gJ8ufv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1616" data-original-width="1518" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCtShp57SG4OusM-du7di1FJe8Ha01AIji7KQ9LLfPZ3KhvkQr-ppO9DnkMP-RPeii4mmmZ_pXOaFs2fpDaPCeblpBy5LyxajLKFMSgpoiYMh5JpZjXRSqo6GGJ7h0t6E5kfYnFW3Wi4Drm6z0utifp69y8gCZG82FSpsz0WIQLy89iuZJGjsV89gJ8ufv" width="225" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ariel Andressen</span><br /><br /></div><p></p><p><b>7. Saturday 9th September </b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;">Celebrating the timeless genius of Laurel and Hardy with Todd McEwen. We chose this date because it marked seventy years since the boys arrived by liner in the small Irish port of Cobh on 9th September 1953. It was a moment recalled by Stan in his autobiography:</p><dl style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0.2em; text-align: left;"><dd style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.1em; margin-left: 1.6em; margin-right: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The love and affection we found that day at Cobh was simply unbelievable. There were hundreds of boats blowing whistles and mobs and mobs of people screaming on the docks. We just couldn't understand what it was all about. And then something happened that I can never forget. All the church bells in Cobh started to ring out our theme song and Babe [Oliver Hardy] looked at me and we cried. I'll never forget that day. Never.</span></dd></dl><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I have a lump in my throat as I type this. 'All the church bells in Cobh'. They'd come by boat because they couldn't afford to fly. </span><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirAtcwi6WvU_21qGXL-GwEP5I0GnRnwoBAzEVmHfCn7jAxq0aW69uQp79yw-OzhH-HWOSbgndoUD7khIW-3rzQ-X3_jNR61WNzIEKQ1wgLK9n23-bSUNwtMJN9QU15s4OYfkrCYxPJ1I3T1dtuSv3-j3uV4RuIXpZGRVUxKpQln82J6DaxowOKs3voSG1v" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2038" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEirAtcwi6WvU_21qGXL-GwEP5I0GnRnwoBAzEVmHfCn7jAxq0aW69uQp79yw-OzhH-HWOSbgndoUD7khIW-3rzQ-X3_jNR61WNzIEKQ1wgLK9n23-bSUNwtMJN9QU15s4OYfkrCYxPJ1I3T1dtuSv3-j3uV4RuIXpZGRVUxKpQln82J6DaxowOKs3voSG1v" width="318" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div>"Hard-boiled eggs and nuts" Stan and Ollie in <i>County Hospital</i> (1932)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhN8ivcUtlLpPWMsHejSJYng7vntRhQEt7nZdINfXj5vL7HTkRfuJE6EEx99FHALDVKIO5rBmt8yr7ezpF10wmMKaTaiwp_i6UrZ6bumbnZW4NY5qZ-_W-iQFSnAcxt7oD0W6k7nP8n-nIa1l3f6prRqPY13kZe35nqfw0ee0gt917Mq4eM5OAHIxZZDtfS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="354" data-original-width="640" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhN8ivcUtlLpPWMsHejSJYng7vntRhQEt7nZdINfXj5vL7HTkRfuJE6EEx99FHALDVKIO5rBmt8yr7ezpF10wmMKaTaiwp_i6UrZ6bumbnZW4NY5qZ-_W-iQFSnAcxt7oD0W6k7nP8n-nIa1l3f6prRqPY13kZe35nqfw0ee0gt917Mq4eM5OAHIxZZDtfS" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p></div><p><b>8. Friday 22nd September</b> </p><p>The online launch of <i>My Weil</i>, the third volume in the trilogy by Lars Iyer, published by Melville House. Hosted by publisher Tom Clayton with Lars Iyer, Vik Shirley and C. D. Rose.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil2ekb8uXYOSt4sXeVhvnHo2zYRN80IOBOBs76Z1VBlypjR4I7IkcueXmd3G_hlt-hGS1HATyrOhUvhAFtG-Zdgz6C9TzGLx_ZSeGiXVDGsvhFZPFWqglF4jz_IOGFw04Jy7kiiwur9PzWDr7qwg0kUp0YX5pTPioobroM1gjT38vGvrQvqwmg3EYKz7Bq" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1474" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEil2ekb8uXYOSt4sXeVhvnHo2zYRN80IOBOBs76Z1VBlypjR4I7IkcueXmd3G_hlt-hGS1HATyrOhUvhAFtG-Zdgz6C9TzGLx_ZSeGiXVDGsvhFZPFWqglF4jz_IOGFw04Jy7kiiwur9PzWDr7qwg0kUp0YX5pTPioobroM1gjT38vGvrQvqwmg3EYKz7Bq" width="221" /></a></div><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lars Iyer</span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4qtankwfQ_N3_fNzw2tAxG4bcStBLpfCIp4CZpGiwkjzqz0yJ_mORTBfeIotTwTNMEi-nW4_2_fIobG0NKR4joDLU_BVZKSSjvd6Tj7pM_OPeEAXoPRa0nxo7PEBVMWzg6TvX0UAg98E_odwkPDtTA2ATJ0oKxzK5mWIvMbx31LdYcVbxuRm_p-4sR2Aw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="120" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj4qtankwfQ_N3_fNzw2tAxG4bcStBLpfCIp4CZpGiwkjzqz0yJ_mORTBfeIotTwTNMEi-nW4_2_fIobG0NKR4joDLU_BVZKSSjvd6Tj7pM_OPeEAXoPRa0nxo7PEBVMWzg6TvX0UAg98E_odwkPDtTA2ATJ0oKxzK5mWIvMbx31LdYcVbxuRm_p-4sR2Aw=w184-h310" width="184" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><b>9. Sunday 8th October </b></p><p>The online launch of<i> Sports and Social</i> by Kevin Boniface with the author himself and special guests Joanne Lee, Sam Skoog, Molly Boniface and Georgia Boniface. This followed a real-life launch in a wonderfully dilapidated Brixton chapel with a stand-up routine by comedian Johnny White Really-Really and readings by the author and (among others) the Will Eaves.</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAtC2aPjxmbcmacStHNgLotLA1rcARDknuGK7KU4m3PdMi5F7JT_nb8mG1PMxM5Cx4MEdyT2EB_pEWVSH9igaHV4KAbTPTzdUfoTPmxe_1PaTZDPzRRg4KVWRikLbwq3CRF8b3h3MRnWfr6agg6-YeGFUncj_tDv_SFSbzJ_eQbCUUBwwondKZKJn4MWFD" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="754" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAtC2aPjxmbcmacStHNgLotLA1rcARDknuGK7KU4m3PdMi5F7JT_nb8mG1PMxM5Cx4MEdyT2EB_pEWVSH9igaHV4KAbTPTzdUfoTPmxe_1PaTZDPzRRg4KVWRikLbwq3CRF8b3h3MRnWfr6agg6-YeGFUncj_tDv_SFSbzJ_eQbCUUBwwondKZKJn4MWFD" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3wZB0qNZATHx_q6i5pIK2EDk_uuaK1SJsdexh-iYI9C9f1_TOhOVlj8lFmset2X9qBOIbey8cGK6XMga6ZdxKq10R46YH4nFDcctJ_sz7pMpCAYfeGBdOClWEx2x1nr_1i_hx9G4KSv_-6yPm4LyrILzWjVAYglA6NczHTdQiSl1GErr-V6JjB8Be75J-" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1238" data-original-width="946" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3wZB0qNZATHx_q6i5pIK2EDk_uuaK1SJsdexh-iYI9C9f1_TOhOVlj8lFmset2X9qBOIbey8cGK6XMga6ZdxKq10R46YH4nFDcctJ_sz7pMpCAYfeGBdOClWEx2x1nr_1i_hx9G4KSv_-6yPm4LyrILzWjVAYglA6NczHTdQiSl1GErr-V6JjB8Be75J-" width="183" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> Young people gather on street corners in South London to read <i>Sports and Social</i> together.</span><p></p><p><b>10. Sunday 26th November</b> </p><p>Istros books publisher Susan Curtis introduced Faruk Šehić, Bosnian poet, short story writer and novelist, to mark the publication of his new poetry collection <i>My Rivers</i>. Suzi and Faruk were joined by the New Zealand poet David Howard for readings and conversation.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiotpRJgo66077MLt1SFJdQw-HgQSoto4yAzvtqyBLYUXU-idt22FlqqUjXXn0kCD3DH0giy1VF8crut-55csiti9BcLBQHBfR9GPAEqT024Vx-6AhO_ytwMjUHciQlfusaRFCklGaGYcUfSre90sNzWYyTXRe71BNBVjVUDOy7xGltO-S8lUDmc_WOhG4K" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="265" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiotpRJgo66077MLt1SFJdQw-HgQSoto4yAzvtqyBLYUXU-idt22FlqqUjXXn0kCD3DH0giy1VF8crut-55csiti9BcLBQHBfR9GPAEqT024Vx-6AhO_ytwMjUHciQlfusaRFCklGaGYcUfSre90sNzWYyTXRe71BNBVjVUDOy7xGltO-S8lUDmc_WOhG4K" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span> </span><span style="font-size: small;">Faruk Šehić</span><p><br /></p><p><b>11. Tuesday 5th December</b> </p><p>One-to-one with American poet, playwright, essayist, librettist and memoirist Dan O'Brien, who read from <i>Survivor's Notebook, From Scarsdale </i>and his forthcoming play <i>Newtown</i> (published in 2024 by CB editions). </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7pNZKBL7cgDuFNNj826HxxvGgy2Zvlk91F1AI_E1jdbfDRG3C92KjFvjmDqauZug-FLOnBTl3pyOWE9zGbAhNttCucLZUhQlWCG36dQeKnmdj9_023ecwR-zUlzfhZYxGfl8AUTp4cF1vPGR5ye27LeNJD0ToHe7yH6aM7VQ0jXFT6eXZFgD93NDhRWV2" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="275" data-original-width="183" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7pNZKBL7cgDuFNNj826HxxvGgy2Zvlk91F1AI_E1jdbfDRG3C92KjFvjmDqauZug-FLOnBTl3pyOWE9zGbAhNttCucLZUhQlWCG36dQeKnmdj9_023ecwR-zUlzfhZYxGfl8AUTp4cF1vPGR5ye27LeNJD0ToHe7yH6aM7VQ0jXFT6eXZFgD93NDhRWV2=w220-h303" width="220" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Dan O'Brien</span></p><p>We also found time during the year to organise a special gathering to mark the coronation. This culminated in a royal art competition with some very strong entries (below). </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjporthOJObGsyytE-5fJXhSYxzjEIer6HZ4mPfsfrLFNl4r3l3naDMUe_mELDk9kO2Rk4gayngZIT0Jl8XX_kbADLNbhv85JoB8Oet-VHg4Le6cDlB9Ox9rOdcjh2HaVdt0drdt6dEW8SfkbprY4HRxActINU_YOoVAvq3-aKVi5cbHOZRNI75Qswk5-u7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1450" data-original-width="2562" height="364" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjporthOJObGsyytE-5fJXhSYxzjEIer6HZ4mPfsfrLFNl4r3l3naDMUe_mELDk9kO2Rk4gayngZIT0Jl8XX_kbADLNbhv85JoB8Oet-VHg4Le6cDlB9Ox9rOdcjh2HaVdt0drdt6dEW8SfkbprY4HRxActINU_YOoVAvq3-aKVi5cbHOZRNI75Qswk5-u7=w571-h364" width="571" /></a></div><br /><br />In the face of stiff competition the winner was Molly Boniface (see below). Well done Molly!<br /><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgINba8Ri_MrkPIIe8wnWFiD5JyeoTnmTXKeXHxac2x4ALCuOCPt_zm4PQWTnin7EVdQXotwD05PR0VZz14g7gzlcDgAYhgJfooxl4goiAsxRHYALTgeNGe8wtPJ2l1MZMjiVyAtGnDAb262eGRyKHE52nb-MKmGJ_s78m2FMw73tunJFoLCJVm_oWaJ-ei" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1532" data-original-width="2818" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgINba8Ri_MrkPIIe8wnWFiD5JyeoTnmTXKeXHxac2x4ALCuOCPt_zm4PQWTnin7EVdQXotwD05PR0VZz14g7gzlcDgAYhgJfooxl4goiAsxRHYALTgeNGe8wtPJ2l1MZMjiVyAtGnDAb262eGRyKHE52nb-MKmGJ_s78m2FMw73tunJFoLCJVm_oWaJ-ei" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>There was one other 2023 gathering, on <b>Thursday 28th December, </b>our annual fund-raising pantomime performed by The Carthorse Orchestra Players in aid of The Trussell Trust.This year it was a very approximate take on Agatha Christie's<i> The Mousetrap</i>. More about that elsewhere on this blog.</p><p>And that's it for 2023.</p><p>More online gatherings are planned for 2024. Details will follow.</p><p>These are dark times, so let's keep the lights on. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-87074301417210769622023-12-16T09:35:00.128+00:002023-12-21T11:43:10.142+00:00The Carthorse Orchestra Players 2023 pantomime<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">If you're not already on my mailing list and would like to join the audience for this year's show </span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">please </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;">leave your name and email address in the comments box at the foot of this blog.</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Times; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">_____________________</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">Since 2020 The Carthorse Orchestra Players have been performing a live online pantomime every </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">year, </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">starting with a candle-lit production of</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <i>A Christmas Carol</i>:</span></span><span class="s2" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #fb0207; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3UyLrsrJhdq3RtZR5Qwu4iukCBfAZaCWz24EDbgWJ2-MyevFHc4SufCNI2gPd_8siwC8cniCwt1g29MNQJCohD6V5MRVVjlDq7oMaV8o9KMcjOc6EOm3BtirG39wBTuDjIcI_ZdRhbCKa_UwcOfc4Y80IrRAdU19MCd_tHFPqUeQbU9lP_FhMjtpi_Guk" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1438" data-original-width="2568" height="335" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh3UyLrsrJhdq3RtZR5Qwu4iukCBfAZaCWz24EDbgWJ2-MyevFHc4SufCNI2gPd_8siwC8cniCwt1g29MNQJCohD6V5MRVVjlDq7oMaV8o9KMcjOc6EOm3BtirG39wBTuDjIcI_ZdRhbCKa_UwcOfc4Y80IrRAdU19MCd_tHFPqUeQbU9lP_FhMjtpi_Guk=w589-h335" width="589" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">From top left: DC, Andrew Zec, Kevin Davey, Laura Hopkins, Georgia and Kevin Boniface, Rónán Hession, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, </span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Emma Devlin, </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Amy McCauley, Melanie Pappenheim, Samule Skoog and audience. Composre Helen Ottaway is on the </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">bottom row, second from right.</span></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><div><br /></div></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="s2" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">In 2021 we tackled <i>Through the Looking-glass </i>a</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;">nd last year a star-studded and action-packed production of </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;">Peter Pan.</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;">This year we're not planning an adaptation of a much-loved (and out-of-copyright) classic, but have devised an entirely original script, developed by the cast and based very loosely on two other literary benchmarks. Do join us. If you're not already on the mailing list please leave your email address in the comments section at the foot of this blog. It's free to attend, and donations to The Trussell Trust are welcome.</span></div><div><div><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s2" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s3" style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;"><b>The Carthorse Orchestra Players present</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> </b></span><span class="s5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 34px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>THE MOUSEBOOK</b></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s6" style="color: #fb0207; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 34px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>an end-of-the-year entertainment inspired by</b></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s7" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none;"><b><i>The Mousetrap</i> </b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>by Agatha Christie and</b></span><span class="s7" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none;"><b> <i>The Notebook</i> </b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>by Ágota Kristóf</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p5" style="font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s8" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Thursday 28th December at 7pm</b></span></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s9" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>CAST </b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>(in order of appearance)</b></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Celebrated author of <i>Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro</i></b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> </b></span><span class="s10" style="color: #fb0207; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>MELISSA McCARTHY</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s10" style="color: #fb0207; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s11" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>as the Curator</b></span></p><p class="p9" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s12" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>*****</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Man of a thousand voices</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s10" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="color: #18191a;"><span style="font-size: 10px;"> </span></span><span style="color: #fb0207;"><span style="font-size: 24px;">J O MORGAN</span></span></b></span><span class="s7" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 10px;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as the British Broadcasting Corporation</b></span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></span><span class="s13" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>*****</b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Introducing two newcomers from Dublin’s famed acting dynasty</b></span></p><p class="p11" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s14" style="color: #18191a; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>THOMAS & JACOB HESSION</b></span><span class="s12" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s14" style="color: #18191a; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> as KLAUS & LUKAS</b></span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with a special guest appearance by </b></span><span class="s15" style="color: #fb0207; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>MRS SINÉAD HESSION</b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> as their Mother</b></span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></span><span class="s13" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>*****</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Huddersfield’s popular mirth-makers</b></span></p><p class="p11" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s16" style="color: #18191a; font-kerning: none;"><b> </b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>KEVIN & GEORGIA BONIFACE</b></span><span class="s16" style="color: #18191a; font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p11" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><b style="color: #18191a; font-size: 24px;"> </b><b style="color: #18191a; font-size: 10px;">as GILES and MOLLIE RALSTON, bickering proprietors of Monkswell Manor</b></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with </b></span><span class="s15" style="color: #fb0207; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>MOLLY BONIFACE</b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> as Herself</b></span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span><span class="s13" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>*****</b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> That ageless matinee idle</b></span></p><p class="p11" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s14" style="color: #18191a; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>SAMUEL SKOOG</b></span><span class="s12" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> as CHRISTOPHER WREN</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“A hyperactive young man who acts in a very peculiar manner”</i></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i></i></b></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s13" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>*****</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></i>Straight from central casting</b></span></p><p class="p11" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s14" style="color: #18191a; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>LAURA HOPKINS</b></span><span class="s14" style="color: #18191a; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as MRS BOYLE, the battle-axe with a heart of gold</b></span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span><span class="s13" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>*****</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>“I don’t mind if I do”</b></span></p><p class="p12" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s16" style="color: #18191a; font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s11" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>KEVIN DAVEY</b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as the bibulous MAJOR METCALF</b></span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></span><span class="s13" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>*****</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> “Is she, or isn’t she?”</b></span></p><p class="p12" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s16" style="color: #18191a; font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s11" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>AMY McCAULEY</b></span><span class="s16" style="color: #18191a; font-kerning: none;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> as MISS CASEWELL, “a strange, aloof, masculine woman”</b></span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s13" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>*****</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s13" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>That broth of a boy from the Emerald Isle</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> </b></span><span class="s10" style="color: #fb0207; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>RÓNÁN HESSION</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as SIGNOR PARAVICINI, “a man of unknown provenance”</b></span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></span><span class="s13" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>*****</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“‘ullo ‘ullo ‘ullo”<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p11" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #18191a;"> </span><span style="color: #fb0207;">DAVID COLLARD</span></b></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as DETECTIVE INSPECTOR TROTTER of Scotland Yard<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="p8" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s13" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>***** <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p13" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 10px;">Original music composed and performed by</span></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 10px;"> </span></span></p><p class="p11" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s18" style="color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>HELEN OTTAWAY</b></span></p><p class="p11" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p11" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><span class="s19" style="color: black; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>*****</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></span></p><p class="p14" style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Courier New"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; text-align: justify; text-indent: -36px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> This production contains sudden violence and occasional foul language</span></b></p></div></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-39366146910494195642023-12-01T10:40:00.001+00:002023-12-02T10:39:47.885+00:00Books of the Year 2023<p> 'They flee from me that some time did me seek...'</p><p>By which I mean it seems I'm no longer the go-to guy for annual roundups as organised by our leading print journals. AND I'M ABSOLUTELY FINE WITH THAT. I expect go-ahead commissioning editors don't want their pages sullied by some superannuated blimp with a taste for well-wrought prose from adventurous indie presses. </p><p>Mind you Thomas Wyatt wasn't talking so much about go-ahead commissioning editors as ... well, you know... <i>concubines</i>? I wouldn't use the word myself, but he would have. And if any commissioning editor, or come to that any concubine, appeared at night 'with naked foot, stalking in my chamber' I'd pull the blanket over my head and holler like billy-oh. But all the same it's nice to think one is on somebody else's to-do list. </p><p>So, since I've not been invited to share my books of the year with a paying audience (although I've knocked something off as usual for Houman Barekat's<i> <a href="http://www.review31.co.uk/">Review 31</a></i> and will also be contributing to the <a href="https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/advent-calendar-landing">Galley Beggar Press Advent Calendar</a> which starts on 1st December), I've decided to do so here, and for free, so if you're wondering at this time of year about books to buy for others or yourself, here are some suggestions, with links to the publishers. </p><p>These are all books I've read and admired during 2023 and some of them are by writers I'm pleased to count as friends, and a couple of them come from my own publisher, Sagging Meniscus Press. If that means I'm log rolling, then call me a log roller. I've resisted the temptation to write about each book, but believe me when I say that I admire every one of them so much I wouldn't be disappointed to get extra copies as gifts. I'd be happy to have one in every room. </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Fiction (short stories)</b></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3-FOGoNVj3pEhSdilKqTwEQ0wV9KJtsu6UzTan3BfanQy21Yk89DwK-5CQf4n78IDDMFWQUoU28FVBI53uBcphwWHr01z3-f6-Hkg7Ejtwxuu6BGBnC0u2QZ0Xvt13LACqvtkn215jOa8ty4vbMY7_sRd_noNuyWShd1kz5Lfp40O9DKUMMzCRy9pKLf/s1136/Screenshot%202023-11-13%20at%2010.31.18.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="730" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO3-FOGoNVj3pEhSdilKqTwEQ0wV9KJtsu6UzTan3BfanQy21Yk89DwK-5CQf4n78IDDMFWQUoU28FVBI53uBcphwWHr01z3-f6-Hkg7Ejtwxuu6BGBnC0u2QZ0Xvt13LACqvtkn215jOa8ty4vbMY7_sRd_noNuyWShd1kz5Lfp40O9DKUMMzCRy9pKLf/s320/Screenshot%202023-11-13%20at%2010.31.18.png" width="206" /></a></div><p><i>Sports and Social </i>by Kevin Boniface (Bluemoose Books) </p><p> <a href="https://www.bluemoosebooks.com/books/sports-and-social">https://www.bluemoosebooks.com/books/sports-and-social</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPhSuG6MD9TGzGx-Sley3m65CKT6gbukEXAd6pl1QiggUOrLI5GqB9LrcuCVilTLFlZy9K6fUtIU62x6u9kejzPVXdtcpAnuwNwthW99qyN9XdRyKNx3w1kKunytnG99Uj3CzAaEQt9r9FcLOiWO60jzbe8VWuUK24iNTwxlz-we3rmv7peYr_Bdm3iuQv/s300/th-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="185" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPhSuG6MD9TGzGx-Sley3m65CKT6gbukEXAd6pl1QiggUOrLI5GqB9LrcuCVilTLFlZy9K6fUtIU62x6u9kejzPVXdtcpAnuwNwthW99qyN9XdRyKNx3w1kKunytnG99Uj3CzAaEQt9r9FcLOiWO60jzbe8VWuUK24iNTwxlz-we3rmv7peYr_Bdm3iuQv/s1600/th-10.jpg" width="185" /></a></div><p><i>Open Up</i> by Thomas Morris (Faber) <a href="https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571317042-open-up/">https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571317042-open-up/</a></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi092zjUtj4UGW7JHks6QcxBjtfgYfKU7-JT0SUsC32zZ806OK_I1xcGaC5abuKS4zmNLZOBuBc4ZAlR-m08qF78twkJg5XNsfvpBzdFzR-XyQ6IrPtseGUTqv-X7PGT6MCfa4mpFu7ZLVgD75C2HgxLd53By7YC4nBkIjAAallVi73DRz-NiPrIAOURPWO" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="225" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi092zjUtj4UGW7JHks6QcxBjtfgYfKU7-JT0SUsC32zZ806OK_I1xcGaC5abuKS4zmNLZOBuBc4ZAlR-m08qF78twkJg5XNsfvpBzdFzR-XyQ6IrPtseGUTqv-X7PGT6MCfa4mpFu7ZLVgD75C2HgxLd53By7YC4nBkIjAAallVi73DRz-NiPrIAOURPWO" width="180" /></a></i></div><p></p><p><i>A Writer's Diary </i>by Toby Litt (Galley Beggar Press) <a href="https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-shop/a-writers-diary">https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-shop/a-writers-diary</a> (and I include this book, published on 1st January 2023, in this section but it's really unclassifiable - a mash-up of fact and fiction in short diary entries that is a book to read every day for a year, any year).</p><p></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Fiction (novels)</b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRg6K1VRW6AzRSmAVmBfWpN1gcNWfdtFrG09gr88FHTAG88opvxckIgTTU_y4OvTfaJHk_cBLwLvtsiqcvGGUbthWQG9O5qavnzIOmtnjkhvBDPp_Yn85bjQYp0rGW5yqFpk_Wrenfz6mxmP4tPLKIFDPJvJ3TAzeUx_zBQdLLIR8NS20WrtC92pBSMXxM/s180/th.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="117" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRg6K1VRW6AzRSmAVmBfWpN1gcNWfdtFrG09gr88FHTAG88opvxckIgTTU_y4OvTfaJHk_cBLwLvtsiqcvGGUbthWQG9O5qavnzIOmtnjkhvBDPp_Yn85bjQYp0rGW5yqFpk_Wrenfz6mxmP4tPLKIFDPJvJ3TAzeUx_zBQdLLIR8NS20WrtC92pBSMXxM/s1600/th.jpg" width="117" /></a></div><i>Caret</i> by Adam Mars-Jones (Faber) <p></p><p><a href="https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571280063-caret/">https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571280063-caret/</a> (I write about this for <i>Review 31</i>)</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmYd7GUU3nNJMXYXe2Q64UjdU31Z0Y1S2eVxFfIwrw3mhSQwvhfpneQys5M9fEX3DnHhHyBSU_Rew7U8G5rzF5mXmRfcOmuqW6o58mB6WXh_8xQohtAdKProBlVkikmGwcwgAoOHr1fxpz9ZHxQj1lu6G_rWmvInQtPhPPuNiRW7z1wkbfo9gmBCpVVCas/s300/th-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="207" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmYd7GUU3nNJMXYXe2Q64UjdU31Z0Y1S2eVxFfIwrw3mhSQwvhfpneQys5M9fEX3DnHhHyBSU_Rew7U8G5rzF5mXmRfcOmuqW6o58mB6WXh_8xQohtAdKProBlVkikmGwcwgAoOHr1fxpz9ZHxQj1lu6G_rWmvInQtPhPPuNiRW7z1wkbfo9gmBCpVVCas/s1600/th-4.jpg" width="207" /></a></div><p><i>let me go on</i> by Paul Griffiths (Henningham Family Press) (I wrote about this and the previous volume for the latest <i>Literary Review)</i></p><p><a href="https://henninghamfamilypress.com/product/let-me-go-on-supporter/">https://henninghamfamilypress.com/product/let-me-go-on-supporter/</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJH7AHyt-SGfrW3ZQ5TU2lvCv5iEUmpkNsfunsZeyhXf6RazRTdUfxRvD1XMkmR63DN78Bz72ItSbz0VKdcU7yyb0F4ry07oCbR2HnxxLmH-0GZBAh5nM97Nmp1l1O7uoM0KjBUTdjOJBbTglm4vgkD-tmCQgkESLZ8aSa67H1-ZfWqO0LgeimzlipRA_K/s180/th-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="120" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJH7AHyt-SGfrW3ZQ5TU2lvCv5iEUmpkNsfunsZeyhXf6RazRTdUfxRvD1XMkmR63DN78Bz72ItSbz0VKdcU7yyb0F4ry07oCbR2HnxxLmH-0GZBAh5nM97Nmp1l1O7uoM0KjBUTdjOJBbTglm4vgkD-tmCQgkESLZ8aSa67H1-ZfWqO0LgeimzlipRA_K/s1600/th-1.jpg" width="120" /></a></div><p><i>This Plague of Souls</i> by Mike McCormack (Tramp Press)</p><p><a href="https://tramppress.com/this-plague-of-souls-by-mike-mccormack-forthcoming-october-2023/">https://tramppress.com/this-plague-of-souls-by-mike-mccormack-forthcoming-october-2023/</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzbZpTcVu1UT8D65UKyqTvVUkgfQP276WWKTMNTspLeWOV4-ALIFgzvIvYExn5d51r2GrxNs2qHThySrq2MoqlSriXKOXVFY4UIz9UMrGNVXn2OtOF5SslEGnOl1TYzk4ZU_7fu7fpVpdFlrUo7Wmhsi3VlskKPQd0j3MGkl6wZWYos4Xs-bBuy6uqP6_S" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="180" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjzbZpTcVu1UT8D65UKyqTvVUkgfQP276WWKTMNTspLeWOV4-ALIFgzvIvYExn5d51r2GrxNs2qHThySrq2MoqlSriXKOXVFY4UIz9UMrGNVXn2OtOF5SslEGnOl1TYzk4ZU_7fu7fpVpdFlrUo7Wmhsi3VlskKPQd0j3MGkl6wZWYos4Xs-bBuy6uqP6_S" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div><i>I Think We're Alone Now</i> by Abigail Parry (Bloodaxe Books)<p></p><p><a href="https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/i-think-we-re-alone-now-1334">https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/i-think-we-re-alone-now-1334</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgTSksaB18W3RC4s4HiyTBPWoIl42G6KTCAafaAT1caLg_hsNDD_tjGZeRxLCkC02lvqUmlM2hKQbbK4jLozFgQGPucoDJN40ZB2_nrS9XSmsMlF64UgW69wtd-vnoedfr_-HwnK_4w0uYh_bzt_vi0LuzBzu8pmyzwOI5ORtjsEGEPlA-RwO14hqpHQi/s180/th-7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="117" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghgTSksaB18W3RC4s4HiyTBPWoIl42G6KTCAafaAT1caLg_hsNDD_tjGZeRxLCkC02lvqUmlM2hKQbbK4jLozFgQGPucoDJN40ZB2_nrS9XSmsMlF64UgW69wtd-vnoedfr_-HwnK_4w0uYh_bzt_vi0LuzBzu8pmyzwOI5ORtjsEGEPlA-RwO14hqpHQi/s1600/th-7.jpg" width="117" /></a></div><p><i>Crisis Actor</i> by Declan Ryan (Faber) <a href="https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571371280-crisis-actor/">https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571371280-crisis-actor/</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQL6JjqHe0o5_3IH-wEmkC3WwwNT7VASal_ms3O2z6naf5XrFN28r0gg7J2xPcZpa_koS2UqOkvsK-IdytjqsIDGr9Rqs9W-j2QrQRgZmJ3mzYKqZh2pdKDYSGTcXbPm6KVBBwZ97WUiVZqLogwUWxVh6FcDb3Qpjpye3duIWbFH0DV424EW8cd1eXM2C/s180/th-8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="117" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjQL6JjqHe0o5_3IH-wEmkC3WwwNT7VASal_ms3O2z6naf5XrFN28r0gg7J2xPcZpa_koS2UqOkvsK-IdytjqsIDGr9Rqs9W-j2QrQRgZmJ3mzYKqZh2pdKDYSGTcXbPm6KVBBwZ97WUiVZqLogwUWxVh6FcDb3Qpjpye3duIWbFH0DV424EW8cd1eXM2C/s1600/th-8.jpg" width="117" /></a></div><p><i>Please Don't Bomb the Ghost of My Brother</i> by Julian Stannard (Salt)</p><p><a href="https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/please-don-t-bomb-the-ghost-of-my-brother-9781784633066">https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/please-don-t-bomb-the-ghost-of-my-brother-9781784633066</a></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMH-F_emDwebfVK095fNQRT9EgJY5mODXGDYhuiA7iWmp14YEYU0Y0P_ZFvcTILa-YB3ovcQ6GeivODzG-x7wV7VGjnmeh5Ca0rSFiTISMRODIW8VEe5eQiANzRZOf8yO-xEzhNFZMauPPGK-9RSOiWOt5KCfqwLZuU5lPi8zFPas0CYrmrsd8iTryGErG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="381" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiMH-F_emDwebfVK095fNQRT9EgJY5mODXGDYhuiA7iWmp14YEYU0Y0P_ZFvcTILa-YB3ovcQ6GeivODzG-x7wV7VGjnmeh5Ca0rSFiTISMRODIW8VEe5eQiANzRZOf8yO-xEzhNFZMauPPGK-9RSOiWOt5KCfqwLZuU5lPi8zFPas0CYrmrsd8iTryGErG" width="156" /></a></div><p></p><p><i>House on the A34</i> by Philip Hancock (CB editions) <a href="https://cbeditions.com/hancock2.html">https://cbeditions.com/hancock2.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Non-fiction</b></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsZM5u41CvmcD4gH-UWpuzruY7j1rLTZKwIb2vZamx4sOaX-EX9kJKMzQw43c4Zq_gKAqMu2WEUbRSX4kS2HDZWTn15PxcFhGxl4UJyw2sN8puNJJSB8dCslpzfSRAMhfGuUgvhnZobhWETU0RRdv6BvoYUfZqEovHcilzqdZ-vY0sY0Save-DNkPNGae5/s860/Screenshot%202023-11-13%20at%2010.25.35.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="608" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsZM5u41CvmcD4gH-UWpuzruY7j1rLTZKwIb2vZamx4sOaX-EX9kJKMzQw43c4Zq_gKAqMu2WEUbRSX4kS2HDZWTn15PxcFhGxl4UJyw2sN8puNJJSB8dCslpzfSRAMhfGuUgvhnZobhWETU0RRdv6BvoYUfZqEovHcilzqdZ-vY0sY0Save-DNkPNGae5/s320/Screenshot%202023-11-13%20at%2010.25.35.png" width="226" /></a></div><i><p><i>Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro</i> by Melissa McCarthy (Sagging Meniscus Press)</p></i><p></p><p><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/photo_phyto_proto_nitro/">https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/photo_phyto_proto_nitro/</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhPjJZ5Xd8JbPzB1eZVTZw7zAeTZ6XfDXxTP13BxaoFnBhUuTn4Vq-9_xDM7RtyTDLVtfS_kn5p0H2rV2zjrRDYNbiivPOr6IlhCftqlxXvdwh6AfG0TNYa7Yx6u7AUaybdXAYEcKLhCUeKTopu6TMmckEpjaN7CzSStslJKMa3BEYmuNsn5JSXeMwOgP/s179/th-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="111" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDhPjJZ5Xd8JbPzB1eZVTZw7zAeTZ6XfDXxTP13BxaoFnBhUuTn4Vq-9_xDM7RtyTDLVtfS_kn5p0H2rV2zjrRDYNbiivPOr6IlhCftqlxXvdwh6AfG0TNYa7Yx6u7AUaybdXAYEcKLhCUeKTopu6TMmckEpjaN7CzSStslJKMa3BEYmuNsn5JSXeMwOgP/s1600/th-6.jpg" width="111" /></a></div><p><i>Wish I Was Here</i> by M. John Harrison (Serpents Tail)</p><p><a href="https://serpentstail.com/work/wish-i-was-here/">https://serpentstail.com/work/wish-i-was-here/</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTVX9oAzFQ0B-GrVShdxVP9MH2tiivKLvNT2GtmTlAWpXokccVFcgpIWG4jgRpjPM3vfrR1-KbqtCwQtAtcZLqq-mMaUO-78DxD4ZBm4jXQSZJId2Do02Y-ZVU7A-Xm0OJibty4gSF4zGUD7nDAF-_Cu-PsqXz5qI6oRWxIgWnSknPEb1S-mE1qOwFToU0/s180/th-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="117" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTVX9oAzFQ0B-GrVShdxVP9MH2tiivKLvNT2GtmTlAWpXokccVFcgpIWG4jgRpjPM3vfrR1-KbqtCwQtAtcZLqq-mMaUO-78DxD4ZBm4jXQSZJId2Do02Y-ZVU7A-Xm0OJibty4gSF4zGUD7nDAF-_Cu-PsqXz5qI6oRWxIgWnSknPEb1S-mE1qOwFToU0/s1600/th-5.jpg" width="117" /></a></div><p><i>Playing to Lose</i> by Ariel Andersson (Unbound)</p><p><a href="https://www.alibris.com/Playing-to-Lose-How-a-Jehovahs-Witness-Became-a-Submissive-BDSM-Model-Ariel-Anderssen/book/52957668">https://www.alibris.com/Playing-to-Lose-How-a-Jehovahs-Witness-Became-a-Submissive-BDSM-Model-Ariel-Anderssen/book/52957668</a></p><p><br /></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRjfq4vCmhJ8deGVnmQORfod-zDPzZqbGVRqTqrQiTSUMSIcDb-JRtSdCurbHxB1ZcO-h8iI2kRKoOra2XtKcnS4OStibBB8ThDK6b01TPDM08yz0qYNBIIiEVM8BYrpmFHQZgJarGzYkHzy-LEJzHs6ihoO3hkNnFdQIq9QA5gYaqTAw5b86ihLfbOB4B" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="113" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRjfq4vCmhJ8deGVnmQORfod-zDPzZqbGVRqTqrQiTSUMSIcDb-JRtSdCurbHxB1ZcO-h8iI2kRKoOra2XtKcnS4OStibBB8ThDK6b01TPDM08yz0qYNBIIiEVM8BYrpmFHQZgJarGzYkHzy-LEJzHs6ihoO3hkNnFdQIq9QA5gYaqTAw5b86ihLfbOB4B" width="151" /></a></i></div><p></p><p><i>The Stirrings: A Memoir in Northern Time</i> by Catherine Taylor</p><p><a href="https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/catherine-taylor-2/the-stirrings/9781474625302/">https://www.weidenfeldandnicolson.co.uk/titles/catherine-taylor-2/the-stirrings/9781474625302/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Artbooks</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgm-gtxwqm3P8ES0xwnL6lM6BqbmrlZ6R1gwTmlEZlCgMiF6b2lMUT8ldSD1lDEo0V71UcBztqD_ZqwQ84XLrI6Jo4P-oi2cmsXBUSSRS7QJTX08SEXyWnwqbA5tbMjYMDlB40Ha6B3O1u8UORJ8B7AJccfKiB38hMgolm4i7t_Xgzc4Omm6es3v4-wPxcS" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1804" data-original-width="1500" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgm-gtxwqm3P8ES0xwnL6lM6BqbmrlZ6R1gwTmlEZlCgMiF6b2lMUT8ldSD1lDEo0V71UcBztqD_ZqwQ84XLrI6Jo4P-oi2cmsXBUSSRS7QJTX08SEXyWnwqbA5tbMjYMDlB40Ha6B3O1u8UORJ8B7AJccfKiB38hMgolm4i7t_Xgzc4Omm6es3v4-wPxcS" width="200" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><i>Dante Elsner</i> by Maia Elsner (Guillemot) <p></p><p><a href="https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction/dante-elsner-maia-elsner">https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction/dante-elsner-maia-elsner</a></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMMLIV2OmrZ4zk2XFvb4-cM0m0RGHb2d9kqLB_c8OMuA8AgpBCLH0CB_wl_CgTvrC7Sh8DNb3IwkXNC1hjKFYggDVSdEMwqMnykv7KLM26dwcJ_gnki_CNauKqiU_dzc2yfV2Ox8ZAiCGlyvO8rFR2azkaRms-U_YEIXn0XnYEQaWrNqFVkosrwmNqxQO5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="702" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMMLIV2OmrZ4zk2XFvb4-cM0m0RGHb2d9kqLB_c8OMuA8AgpBCLH0CB_wl_CgTvrC7Sh8DNb3IwkXNC1hjKFYggDVSdEMwqMnykv7KLM26dwcJ_gnki_CNauKqiU_dzc2yfV2Ox8ZAiCGlyvO8rFR2azkaRms-U_YEIXn0XnYEQaWrNqFVkosrwmNqxQO5" width="247" /></a></div><br /><i>Plea$e Steal Me for 100 Plus Dollar-zz</i> by Kirsten Mosher (I provide the cover blurb so should declare an interest. Kirsten's work is new to me, and a real discovery)<p></p><p><a href="https://lilypoetryreview.blog/lily-poetry-chapbooks/pleae-steal-me-for-100-plus-dollar-zza-plea-in-twenty-one-panels/">https://lilypoetryreview.blog/lily-poetry-chapbooks/pleae-steal-me-for-100-plus-dollar-zza-plea-in-twenty-one-panels/</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4uX-xJe30K0lD7OQ_aC9BuCofmOYFdb8VGWPxj8mzPPWRlo4YlFPvqHoj4smfn15mLlbBiczTuUb_yloXthyphenhyphenOAx60FvQM0P9M_poGdcbcWtmChkUlI0TGhJpNT-zETUw7VZJP-iRr6lGPqrNcYMpHFY1GoozO_v0Ap1A1eRcW_UCijXPQZAzc_77_eVjx/s848/Screenshot%202023-11-13%20at%2010.26.07.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="848" data-original-width="606" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4uX-xJe30K0lD7OQ_aC9BuCofmOYFdb8VGWPxj8mzPPWRlo4YlFPvqHoj4smfn15mLlbBiczTuUb_yloXthyphenhyphenOAx60FvQM0P9M_poGdcbcWtmChkUlI0TGhJpNT-zETUw7VZJP-iRr6lGPqrNcYMpHFY1GoozO_v0Ap1A1eRcW_UCijXPQZAzc_77_eVjx/s320/Screenshot%202023-11-13%20at%2010.26.07.png" width="229" /></a></div><p><i>Songs for Olympia</i> by Tomoé Hill (Sagging Meniscus Press)</p><p><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/songs_for_olympia/">https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/songs_for_olympia/</a></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Finally, looking forward, here are a dozen indie highlights to look out for next year:</b></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Unwords </i>by Andrew Gallix (Dodo Ink)</p><p><i>Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea</i> by C. D. Rose (Melville House)</p><p><i>Ava Anna Ada</i> by Ali Millar (White Rabbit) </p><p><i>Christ on a Bike</i> by Orla Owen (Bluemoose Books)</p><p><i>Newtown</i> by Dan O'Brien (CB editions)</p><p><i>Toothpull of St Dunstan</i> by Kevin Davey (Henningham Family Press) </p><p><i>Ghost Mountain</i> by Rónán Hession (Bluemoose Books) </p><p><i>Paris Fantastique</i> and <i>Shadow Lines</i> by Nicholas Royle (Confingo)</p><p><i>Spent Light</i> by Lara Pawson (CB editions) </p><p><i>Home is Where We Start</i> by Susanna Crossman (FigTree, Penguin)</p><p><i>Mary and the Rabbit Dream</i> by Noémi Kiss-Deáki (Galley Beggar Press)</p><p><i>Zerox Machine: </i><i>Punk, Post-Punk and Fanzines in Britain, 1976–88 </i>by<i> </i>Matthew Worley (Reaktion Books)</p><p><br /></p><p><b>And coming later in 2024:</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><i>In the dream of the cold restaurant: fifty short essays about one short poem</i> (Sagging Meniscus Press) by yours truly. I expect I'll mention this again at some point.</p><p><br /></p><p><span>However and whatever you celebrate at this time of year, give it your best shot. And keep the lights on.</span></p><p><span><br /></span></p><p><span>Dx</span></p><p><br /></p></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-81125550088896494402023-09-16T11:32:00.031+01:002023-12-05T08:50:31.676+00:00One-to-one with Dan O'Brien<p><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Tuesday December 5th at 7pm UK time</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Join American poet and playwright <b>Dan O'Brien</b> live online at his home in California for an evening (or morning) of poetry, prose and performance. This is the first time in over 150 gatherings that we've devoted an entire programme to one living author and that should come as no surprise - Dan is a swell bunch of guys. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLLHdPRPnc-MrS-iSGnfbG14CzpVgYHYpO9grNS20DWihsHMD-THAM9w2r9mP41UL90a56zx7io6RDSa_gvxkKKv7QxqdLzcOJLQyXd76NNc88zamaZTlXCJg4yto6YgUy4wfPI_FHqxzwGv7HkiUetXHXAk9sXj4Qm6700FnxPce1v5Gl6jS8EwxCzMpP" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="154" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLLHdPRPnc-MrS-iSGnfbG14CzpVgYHYpO9grNS20DWihsHMD-THAM9w2r9mP41UL90a56zx7io6RDSa_gvxkKKv7QxqdLzcOJLQyXd76NNc88zamaZTlXCJg4yto6YgUy4wfPI_FHqxzwGv7HkiUetXHXAk9sXj4Qm6700FnxPce1v5Gl6jS8EwxCzMpP" width="205" /></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></span></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">The programme will be in three parts, opening with prose poems from <i>Survivor's Notebook</i>, then the memoir <i>From Scarsdale</i> followed by a performance of extracts from Dan's forthcoming play <i>Newtown, </i>which will be published in March 2024 by</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> CB editions. There will be time for questions from the audience.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>If you're not already on the mailing list and would like to join the audience for this free event, please leave your email address in the comments section below and I'll be in touch.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjftUuCi0RtxWiEEzEyU2GqAwAYmKM2MpHyJnLF5rz4N6wmK3vJ2zeFdye2FvFS_3n6-s4i3KOggIfKmUYTOnFd3tOlzcWfEDYKhrV2UKbmKY32QJhPZSm_zdCKecAUSnuZKyp_6x9EdEfX66Dj3vHcaTflcNLDw8retVXB5eIhjgX6TX6dSaIkKqX-yNP5" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1140" data-original-width="758" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjftUuCi0RtxWiEEzEyU2GqAwAYmKM2MpHyJnLF5rz4N6wmK3vJ2zeFdye2FvFS_3n6-s4i3KOggIfKmUYTOnFd3tOlzcWfEDYKhrV2UKbmKY32QJhPZSm_zdCKecAUSnuZKyp_6x9EdEfX66Dj3vHcaTflcNLDw8retVXB5eIhjgX6TX6dSaIkKqX-yNP5" width="160" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdVWir_PIhKx8uMZOKq8J7GLWDN6OxEfIeOq2Qn4dZdqIlxtNhSnBYdG2d-QtNxHKdEoyw_v2K9vSBEmklzA4RQiVfGbbnkcm0p0jP4X-PZUhs689MoaNpNyDTTRQdb9QAPmXgr_PT1wHSx8BDLgnuY_zscowLO_igqmuujCIwagag2kjAvICTR5Gk0Ogt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1136" data-original-width="720" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhdVWir_PIhKx8uMZOKq8J7GLWDN6OxEfIeOq2Qn4dZdqIlxtNhSnBYdG2d-QtNxHKdEoyw_v2K9vSBEmklzA4RQiVfGbbnkcm0p0jP4X-PZUhs689MoaNpNyDTTRQdb9QAPmXgr_PT1wHSx8BDLgnuY_zscowLO_igqmuujCIwagag2kjAvICTR5Gk0Ogt" width="152" /></a></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-family: arial;">This is the final programme in a year-long series of monthly gatherings called <i>The Butcher's Dozen</i>, which has featured some of the most original and exciting contemporary writers including Ariel Anderssen, Wes Brown, Kevin Boniface, Paul Griffiths, Lars Iyer, Todd McEwen and <span>Faruk Séhič. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">(We'll be back for one more event on<b> Thursday 28th December</b> - so please keep that date in your diary.</span><span style="font-family: arial;">)</span><div><p></p><p>___________________________________________________________________________</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Dan is an internationally produced and published playwright, poet, librettist, and nonfiction writer whose recognition in playwriting includes a Guggenheim Fellowship and two PEN America Awards. <i>The Body of an American</i>, O’Brien’s play about the Battle of Mogadishu and the haunting of war reporter Paul Watson, was co-produced off-Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre by Primary Stages and Hartford St</span><span style="font-family: arial;">age (</span><i style="font-family: arial;">New York Times</i><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"> Critic’s Pick), </span><span style="font-family: arial;">at the Gate Theatre in London, and at various theaters around the UK and the US.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial;">The Body of an American</i><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial;">received the Edward M. Kennedy Prize, the Horton Foote Prize, the Weissberger Award, and was shortlisted for an <i>Evening Standard</i> Award.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">O’Brien’s poetry collections are <i>War Reporter</i> (winner of the UK’s Fenton Aldeburgh Prize & shortlisted for the Forward Foundation’s Felix Dennis Prize), <i>Scarsdale, New Life, Our Cancers</i>, and his latest, <i>Survivor’s Notebook</i>. His memoir, <i>From Scarsdale</i>, and a trilogy of his docudramas, <i>True Stor</i>y, were published in 2023 by Dalkey Archive Press. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">In early 2024, Poetry London will publish a pamphlet of his poems, and CB Editions will publish his play-in-verse <i>Newtown</i>. O’Brien lives in Los Angeles with his wife, actor and writer Jessica St. Clair, and their daughter Isobel.</span></p><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Recent and forthcoming publication</b></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="im"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://acre-books.com/books/survivors-notebook/&source=gmail&ust=1701287896280000&usg=AOvVaw0VgWAc1u3bjDGGbSRqhW_a" href="https://acre-books.com/books/survivors-notebook/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><i>Survivor’s Notebook</i></a><span style="color: #500050;"> (poems) </span>from Acre Books<span style="color: #500050;"> </span><br /><div style="color: #500050;"><br /></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/from-scarsdale?variant%3D43453657055387&source=gmail&ust=1701287896280000&usg=AOvVaw1D3_JHawgwLLOh5xm5UAMh" href="https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/from-scarsdale?variant=43453657055387" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><i>From Scarsdale: A Childhood</i></a><i style="color: #500050;"> </i>(memoir) from Dalkey Archive Press<span style="color: #500050;"> </span></div><div style="color: #500050;"><br /></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/true-story/?variant%3D43453672128667&source=gmail&ust=1701287896280000&usg=AOvVaw10LMCcP9o1gJ5GZ8LYbzxX" href="https://dalkeyarchive.store/products/true-story/?variant=43453672128667" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><i>True Story: A Trilogy</i></a><i style="color: #500050;"> </i>(plays) from Dalkey Archive Press </div><div style="color: #500050;"><br /></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://gevatheatre.org/23-24-season/&source=gmail&ust=1701287896280000&usg=AOvVaw2XsriQ_WwOJhpzi0D3PgDH" href="https://gevatheatre.org/23-24-season/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><i>Newtown</i></a><span style="color: #500050;"> </span>forthcoming from<i> </i>from CB Editions (London) in March 2024</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>Flying on Easter,</i> a new pamphlet<i> </i> from Poetry London (2024)</div><div style="color: #500050; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="color: #500050; font-size: small;"><br /></div></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;">You can buy three of Dan's earlier poetry collections from his UK publisher CB editions here:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>War Reporter</i> <a href="https://www.cbeditions.com/OBrien.html">https://www.cbeditions.com/OBrien.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Scarsdale</i> <a href="https://www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html">https://www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>New Life</i> <a href="https://www.cbeditions.com/obrien3.html">https://www.cbeditions.com/obrien3.html</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><div><br /></div></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-54343281783246493012023-09-16T11:31:00.115+01:002023-11-18T16:20:27.906+00:00FREE ONLINE GATHERING<p><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Sunday 26th November at 6pm UK time</span></b></p><p><b style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Istros Books present FARUK ŠEHIĆ</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Istros Books was set up in 2011 in order to publish and promote literature in translation from Central and SE Europe. In its short history, it has managed to prove itself at the forefront of discovering and promoting exciting new works, ranging from essays and flash fiction to historical novels.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">They are proud to continue their commitment to publishing fresh and exciting works in English translation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>SUSAN CURTIS</b> founder of Istros Books, presents an event showcasing one of her authors, the celebrated Bosnian poet Faruk Šehić, who will be joined by his translator/publisher and David Howard, a poet in his own right who helped to edit this collection. </span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWLMaD4hN7zCoqdmLmKQcoDR8yC6NXlClSGeXomk3DRYTO3SsGL7TJcVP_xtLyDbhpTw7c5ck-8N-Xfq7kdCkPFli6mQp33DTbVotL2yUwtJtmLeLZr5OwLFjRUdXi7XxHxTEOjaMSUYLkn0y-uoisEVCePnjhaSktiwsS8HQ5lxENVUgrrppDOdzecBg_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="265" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWLMaD4hN7zCoqdmLmKQcoDR8yC6NXlClSGeXomk3DRYTO3SsGL7TJcVP_xtLyDbhpTw7c5ck-8N-Xfq7kdCkPFli6mQp33DTbVotL2yUwtJtmLeLZr5OwLFjRUdXi7XxHxTEOjaMSUYLkn0y-uoisEVCePnjhaSktiwsS8HQ5lxENVUgrrppDOdzecBg_" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />Programme</b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">1. Welcome and Introduction </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">2. Susan Curtis on Istros Books and the geneSIS of this new collection<br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">3. David Collard reads Ungaretti's poem 'River' which inspired the title and collection</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">4. Susan and Faruk discuss the process of translation, with readings</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">5. Susan introduces the poet David Howard, one of the editors of thIS collection, who will discuss his connection with the region, and his words of endorsement for the book: </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><span> </span><span> '</span>My Rivers </i>is fed from the headwater of the Bosnian war by memories that mix and dissolve in the estuary of our </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span> </span><span> </span>present. Sometimes Faruk Šehić's swirling words are expansive and deep; at other times his language narrows, </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span> </span><span> </span>silted by mourning, but such wetlands are generative. This poetry is fresh water that carries vital salts and </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span> </span><span> </span>nutrients to us.<i>'</i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">6. A discussion of David's 'Tarara' poems, which link Dalmatia and New Zealand. A reading of selected parts of his 'Mate' <b> </b></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">7. General discussion and Q & A<br /><div><br /></div><div>__________________________</div><div><div><b style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">FARUK ŠEHIĆ</b><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"> was born in 1970 in Bihać, in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Until the outbreak of war in 1992, he studied veterinary medicine in Zagreb. However, the then 22-year-old voluntarily joined the army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in which he led a unit of 130 men. </span></div><div><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">After the war he studied literature and has gone on to create his own literary works. Literary critics have hailed Šehić as the leader of the ‘mangled generation’ of writers born in 1970s Yugoslavia, and his books have achieved cult status with readers across the whole region. His collection of short stories </span><i style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Under Pressure</i><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"> (Pod pritiskom, 2004) was awarded the Zoro Verlag Prize. His debut novel </span><i style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">Quiet Flows the Una</i><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"> (Knjiga o Uni, 2011) received the Meša Selimović prize for the best novel published in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia in 2011 and the EU Prize for Literature in 2013. </span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="sans-serif" style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">He lives in Sarajevo and works as a columnist and journalist. </span><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">His most recent poetry collection is entitled </span><i style="background-color: transparent; color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">My Rivers</i><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"> (Moje rijeke, Buybook, 2014) for which he received Risto Ratković Award for the best poetry book in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Croatia in 2014, and Annual award from Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina. </span></div><div><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #202122; font-family: arial; text-align: justify;">His books have been translated into 15 languages and published in 19 countries.</span></div></div></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"></sup></p>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-34921566534350145022023-09-14T16:26:00.094+01:002023-10-04T15:10:52.235+01:00<p> <span class="s1" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="s2" style="color: #408002; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-kerning: none;"><b>Sunday 8th October 6-7pm UK time</b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">If you can't get along to the live London launch in Brixton on Friday 6th October DO NOT DESPAIR - we're going to do it all over again </span><span style="color: red;">live online</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> on Sunday night </span></b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; color: #408002; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s5" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></span></b></span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sports and Social</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 46px;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #408002; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></b></span><span class="s6" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>by Kevin Boniface</b></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #408002; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #408002; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #408002; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Times;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Sports and Social</i> is a collection of short stories about the remarkable </span>everyday things that happen </span></b><b>when </b><b>remarkable everyday people get together.</b></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #408002; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #252525; font-family: arial; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFuQsLy9tkqcv76m11Vk-mxjffJLRcJLeSj3RTVmNQ0HIkLMPbXeYzEqnBAQyilVP2eajE7rPk2ssbwI7SjcAjAEayDFNwjtDBJ8a9jizifuBJ7alGWUQpYCjlcZ6rqQ2rNvJA_gSCVECpwBuBdvAWyoSmmC5gkP5GA4SNfi9p1FLd4gpiYfIKnG51QX-3/s1008/Screenshot%202023-07-21%20at%2011.54.27.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="754" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFuQsLy9tkqcv76m11Vk-mxjffJLRcJLeSj3RTVmNQ0HIkLMPbXeYzEqnBAQyilVP2eajE7rPk2ssbwI7SjcAjAEayDFNwjtDBJ8a9jizifuBJ7alGWUQpYCjlcZ6rqQ2rNvJA_gSCVECpwBuBdvAWyoSmmC5gkP5GA4SNfi9p1FLd4gpiYfIKnG51QX-3/s320/Screenshot%202023-07-21%20at%2011.54.27.png" width="239" /></a> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>It's not what you think, it rarely is, so flick the remains of your rubbish cigarette </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>down the </span><span style="font-family: arial;">drain and don't pay too much attention to the rumours. Things have </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> been going missing from the bedroom of the woman with the purple eye shadow. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> Stewart tries to pull in the punters at the ailing nightclub by installing a car </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> park diorama of gorillas and meerkats. Meanwhile, Yvonne gets a new job </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> and nobody knows what's happened to Daz. At Jonnie Rabbett's shooting </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> club, Barbara 'Bunny' Rabbett dispenses pork pies and sage advice, "It'll </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> be right, love." Vincent smokes cigarettes, smells of paint and finally gets </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> to the bottom of what exactly happened to Dame Judy. He must ring Kirsten </span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"> and let her know!</span></div><p class="p10" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: arial; font-kerning: none;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p11" style="color: #408002; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: medium;"><b>Programme (starts at 6pm and runs for an hour)</b></span></p><p class="p12" style="color: #fb0207; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></span></p><p class="p13" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><i></i></span><br /></span></p><p class="p14" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p15" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;">1. Introduction </span></p><p class="p16" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p15" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;">2. Kevin reads from <i>Sports and Social<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span></p><p class="p16" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p17" style="color: blue; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;">3.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>What’s the Story? </i>The world premiere of a new short film by Kevin Boniface</span></p><p class="p17" style="color: blue; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s8" style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p16" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p15" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiIS4K7bXLoTxkhEo-z-tRpPD0czNz_Szg7t2eleAxXdr3CAa6zWgs7kbiwjjzxdKQS13HrB2xGkkwBC0IFBUbL22fJtnzGXEd6Z8jHwEeSfn2Zx32KDOI68Vm52GVDY9aSsEX-ZpNSUrzQ6YoxiG728tuksWNA5Fs5RKy0BBhGmvugbFepO0iA1jWkAfl/s2846/Screenshot%202023-09-08%20at%2020.37.49.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1598" data-original-width="2846" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiIS4K7bXLoTxkhEo-z-tRpPD0czNz_Szg7t2eleAxXdr3CAa6zWgs7kbiwjjzxdKQS13HrB2xGkkwBC0IFBUbL22fJtnzGXEd6Z8jHwEeSfn2Zx32KDOI68Vm52GVDY9aSsEX-ZpNSUrzQ6YoxiG728tuksWNA5Fs5RKy0BBhGmvugbFepO0iA1jWkAfl/s320/Screenshot%202023-09-08%20at%2020.37.49.png" width="320" /></span></a></div><span class="s2" style="font-family: arial; font-kerning: none;"><p class="p15" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: arial; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><p class="p15" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: arial; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p>4. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Joanne Lee in conversation with the author</span></span><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><p class="p15" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;">5. <i>Home James,</i> featuring Huddersfield's second most famous son</span></p><p class="p16" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p15" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;">6. Another reading if there's time </span></p><p class="p16" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p15" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: arial; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;">7. No end of skylarking</span></p><p class="p16" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"></span></p><p class="p16" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p16" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span>Order your copy of<i> Sports and Social</i> direct from the publisher here: <a href="https://bluemoosebooks.com/books/sports-and-social">https://bluemoosebooks.com/books/sports-and-social</a></span></p><p class="p16" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p16" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">If you're not already on the mailing list for one-off online and live gatherings, and feel left out, contact me via my website: <a href="https://davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site">https://davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site</a></span></p><p class="p16" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><br /></p><p class="p16" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p16" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p16" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-53591810066724866172023-09-13T15:35:00.002+01:002023-09-13T15:36:21.285+01:00<p> <span class="s1" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"><b> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></b></span><span class="s2" style="color: #408002; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"><b>Friday 22nd September 6-7:15pm UK time</b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s3" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span></span></span></b></span><span class="s4" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: none; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; 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color: #171311; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #171311; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #171311; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are forced to reconsider their cynicism when they confront a new student who, remarkably, has the same name as the 20th Century Catholic mystic philosopher Simone Weil</span></p><p class="p8" style="background-color: white; color: #171311; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #171311; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>My Weil </i>follows a group of twenty-something PhD students of the new-fangled subject Disaster Studies at an i<br />nferior university in Manchester, England, the post-industrial city of so much great music and culture. They’re working class, by turns underconfident and grandiose (especially when they drink) and are reconciled to never finishing their dissertations or finding academic jobs.</span></span></p><p class="p8" style="background-color: white; color: #171311; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #171311; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Into their midst arrives Simone Weil, a PhD student, a version of the twentieth century philosopher, who becomes the unlikely star of their film. Simone is devout, ascetic, intensely serious, and busy with risky charity work with the homeless. Valentine, hustler-philosopher, recognises Simone as a fellow would-be saint. But Gita, Indian posh-girl, is what’s with Simone’s nun-shoes? And Marcie (AKA Den Mom), the leader of the pack, is too busy with her current infatuation, nicknamed Ultimate Destruction Girl, to notice.</span></span></p><p class="p8" style="background-color: white; color: #171311; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #171311; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The narrator, Johnny, who was brought up in care and is psychologically fragile, and deeply disturbed by the poverty of his adopted city, gradually falls in love in Simone. But will his love be requited? Will Simone be able to save the souls of her new friends and Manchester itself from apocalypse?</span></span></p><p class="p9" style="color: #408002; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p9" style="color: #408002; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><br /></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: white; color: #337004; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Programme</b></span></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: white; color: #337004; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #3e003f; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">1. Introduction by Tom Clayton of Melville House</span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #3e003f; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">2. Lars Iyer’s first reading</span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #3e003f; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">3. Lars and Tom in conversation</span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">4. Joy Division 'Isolation': </span></p><p class="p15" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">5. Vik Shirley reads poems inspired by Ian Curtis / in conversation with Tom Jenks of zimZalla</span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">6. Joy Division 'Ceremony': </span></p><p class="p15" style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">7. Lars and C.D. Rose in conversation</span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">8. Lars gives a second reading</span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">9. Q&A</span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">7:15 End</span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p16" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p17" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Contributors notes (in order of appearance)</b></span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Tom Clayton</b></span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">Tom Clayton is Publishing Manager at Melville House UK. He is the author of <i>When Quiet Was the New Loud: Celebrating the Acoustic Airwaves 1998-2003 </i>(Route Publishing, 2021) and was the lead researcher and writer for <i>Messing Up the Paintwork: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark E. Smith</i> (Ebury, 2018). He lives in St. Leonards-on-Sea.</span></p><p class="p19" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Lars Iyer</b></span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">Lars Iyer is a Reader in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, where he was formerly a longtime lecturer in philosophy. He is the author of the novels in the <i>Spurious </i>trilogy (Melville House, 2011-13) and more recently, the widely acclaimed <i>Wittgenstein Jr. </i>(Melville House, 2014) and <i>Nietzsche and the Burbs </i>(Melville House<i>, </i>2019). He lives in Newcastle.</span></p><p class="p19" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Vik Shirley</b></span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">Vik Shirley is a poet, writer and editor from Bristol now living in Edinburgh. Her publications include <i>The Continued Closure of the Blue Door</i> (HVTN) and <i>Corpses </i>(Sublunary Editions). <i>Strangers Wave: Joy Division Photo Poems</i> (zimZalla) and <i>Notes from the Underworld</i> (Sublunary Editions) are forthcoming this Autumn. She has a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal from the University of Birmingham.</span></p><p class="p19" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>C. D. Rose</b></span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;">C. D. Rose is author of <i>The Biographical Dictionary of Literary Failure</i> (Melville House, 2014), <i>Who’s Who When Everyone Is Someone Else</i> (Melville House, 2018), <i>The Blind Accordionist</i> (Melville House, 2021), and the forthcoming story collection <i>Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea</i> (Melville House, 2024). He lives in Hebden Bridge.</span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-feature-settings: normal; 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font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><br /><p class="p21" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: "Gill Sans"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-41205435749603640712022-12-18T00:47:00.004+00:002022-12-18T08:22:23.463+00:00Newsletter 63<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; text-align: left;">Dear Friends of the Glue Factory</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; text-align: left;">So here it is, the distinguished thing, as Henry James reportedly said in different circumstances. Not death, in this case, but the very last Glue Factory newsletter. </b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">I've been thinking about the future and about the current list of 1000+ subscribers. Over the past month or so I've been inviting a number of indie publishers to use my Zoom account as a platform to promote new and forthcoming books and to showcase their past, current and future writers. This seems to be a good idea so in 2023 you'll get occasional invitations to such events and I hope you'll join the audience (as shall I). More of this later in the newsletter.</b></p><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">We'll also host a number of special events online, including the announcement of the Barbellion Prize shortlist and winner in March and the launch (in May) of <i>London Consequences 2</i>, the collaborative novel featuring 18 of the best contemporary writers which I'm co-editing with Jonathan Gibbs (see below). Other events are planned.</b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">So - to business.</b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"> </b></div><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">Newsletter contents</b></p><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. 2022 Barbellion Prize long list </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> Bluemoose Books</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> Vanguard Editions</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>4. Beckett Foundation Fellows</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>5. Kevin Boniface klaxon!</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>6. Oh no it isn't!</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>7. New Year gift ideas</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>8. Forthcoming in 2023</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>9. </b></span><b>The Way Things Are Now</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>10. The final nudge</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>11. </b><b>PS. Rare collector's item</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span>_______________</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">1. Aid for Ukraine</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Today is - horribly, unbelievably - the 298th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and there's no sign whatsoever of peace in sight, or of any let-up in the violence. The suffering and loss of life on both sides is quite unthinkable - the death toll for both civilian and armies is heartbreaking. </span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier;">I first added this opening item in February following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and I hope - I know - it has prompted readers to donate to the British Red Cross, which is doing a lot of good work in the devastated region. </span></b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">You can donate quickly and easily </span><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a><span style="color: #2b00fe;">. W</span></span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;">hatever you can, whenever you can.</b></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;">Thank you.</b></span><b style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></p></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">________________</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">2. The 2022 Barbellion Prize longlist</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Thanks entirely to the generosity of subscribers to this newsletter and to the audience at the final Glue Factory gathering last week, the Barbellion Prize will go ahead as planned this year, and next year. </span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The 2022 long list was announced on Friday this week and the range of writers and subjects serves to confirm the importance of the Barbellion in raising awareness of disability and the discourse surrounding it. I've read only <i>Polluted Sex</i> (which is shockingly brilliant) and <i>Hybrid Humans</i> (which featured on The Glue Factory when the author joined us for a memorable conversations and reading). The rest will bear closer scrutiny! The shortlist will be announced in March next year, and we'll host some kind of online event to mark the occasion.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP7wkII1dCMS_X4NCePE7lPnZXahanbUHU-KwyOmB37jGqC9LTsmvJrfp_zoUoL8_KFjQ2G8LCrYvqsW0DbdSh7Z-EhbQxGPDMkmJOuQS-XS89Qg6JCQ48Z7IZMRe-9akMwlX9AHVj1V9dJI_jgRfFB_WeIEzYzwL9-4kX9bp3kE8MQdyvLPa1GNlKYQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="982" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgP7wkII1dCMS_X4NCePE7lPnZXahanbUHU-KwyOmB37jGqC9LTsmvJrfp_zoUoL8_KFjQ2G8LCrYvqsW0DbdSh7Z-EhbQxGPDMkmJOuQS-XS89Qg6JCQ48Z7IZMRe-9akMwlX9AHVj1V9dJI_jgRfFB_WeIEzYzwL9-4kX9bp3kE8MQdyvLPa1GNlKYQ" width="314" /></a></div><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Here's the 2022 long list:</span></b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">Head Above Water</span> - by Shahd Alshammari (Neem Tree Press).</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth</i> - by Polly Atkin (Saraband).</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">Polluted Sex</span> - by Lauren Foley (Influx Press).</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">163 Days</span> - by Hannah Hodgson (Seren Books).</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">Book of Hours: An Almanac for The Seasons of The Soul</span> - by Letty McHugh (Self-published, with support from Disability Arts Online).</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">Chouette</span> - by Claire Osketsky (Ecco/HarperCollins).</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-style: italic;">Hybrid Humans: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Man and Machine</span> - by Harry Parker (Profile Books/Wellcome Collection).</b></span></p><div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Congratulations to all the authors and to their publishers. Good work Jake!</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">It's not too late to donate! If you were in the audience last Sunday for the final gathering and haven't yet donated please dig deep and click </span></b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.thebarbellionprize.com/">here</a>. It takes less than a minute to do so and you'll have a clear conscience for the rest of your days.</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_______________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">3. Indie press news</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Bluemoose Books</span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Forthcoming from the mighty House of Bluemoose:</span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Wes Brown's <i>Breaking Kayfabe</i> 'a novel about wrestling and northern masculinity')</span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Kevin Boniface's short story collection <i>Sport Club</i></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Both authors will be familiar to Glue Factory audiences and I know these two books will just <i>smash</i> it. Smash it out of the <i>park</i>.</span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Also - we've almost reached the end of <i>London Consequences</i>, the collaborative novel project involving 18 authors, the writing of which began at the end of August. It's been a wonderful four months for me and Jonathan Gibbs (as co-editors), each week bringing a new chapter, each chapter a benefical shock. We'll be editing the complete book over the next couple of weeks with submission in mid-January. </span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The novel will be published in May 2023 and we're planning launch events, both online and (as hybrid gatherings) in real venues, with live audiences. </span></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Vanguard Editions</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br style="color: #444444; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><i>The Hinge of Metaphor </i>is a unique collection of essays on the world of Cinema, its films, actors and directors, by a spectacular array of poets, playwrights, essayists, interdisciplinary writers, novelists and academics. Includes new, exclusive work on subjects as diverse as Pete Docter’s computer-animation <em style="position: relative;">Inside Out</em>, Hitchcock’s <em style="position: relative;">The Trouble with Harry</em>, </span><span style="font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Panos Cosmatos’ </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><em style="color: black; position: relative;">Beyond the Black</em><span style="color: black;"> </span><em style="color: black; position: relative;">Rainbow</em></span><span style="font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Olivier Assayas’ <em style="position: relative;">Après mai</em>, Hal Hartley’s <em style="position: relative;">Amateur</em>, Wim Wenders’ <em style="position: relative;">Wings of Desire</em>, Felix van Groeningen’s <em style="position: relative;">The Broken Circle Breakdown</em>, the function of episodic memory in Michel Gondry’s <em style="position: relative;">Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind</em>, <em style="position: relative;">Amadeus</em> as both play and film, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s <em style="position: relative;">Once Upon a Time in Anatolia</em>, <em style="position: relative;">Psycho</em> & hypnosis, a comparative study of Claude Sautet’s <em style="position: relative;">Un Cœur en hiver</em> vs. Michael Haneke’s <em style="position: relative;">The Piano Teacher</em>, mirrors in the films of Jean-Daniel Pollet, Croatian filmmaker Ivan Martinac.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Contributors include:</span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #444444; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Victoria Best / David Collard / Dan Dalton / Andrew Gallix / Jonathan Gibbs / Susana Medina / Mathilde Merouani / Rachael de Moravia / Dan O’Brien / Christian Patracchini / Imogen Reid / Richard Skinner / Matthew Turner / Owen Vince / Tony White / Eley Williams </span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">(How many Glue Factory compadres can you spot?)</span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Published in March 2023 by Vanguard Editions</span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-hinge-of-a-metaphorrsquo.html">https://richardskinner.weebly.com/lsquothe-hinge-of-a-metaphorrsquo.html</a></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b>_______________</b></div><div><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div><div><b><span><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">4. Beckett Creative Fellows</span></span></b></div><div><b><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4tjsT_WDemeheiHzEUfGrhQ-ZHLlGQIQ0GHZR1WlaAFJLFejxBIKEPk_ZaL2BZRPlqukdYoaA3bMtplaIlPoR2o8K2NTMS9XtJudCFGSNt5a7KojMd6B3VtlnNTtgp-yQAhAqm-pDamBV6Cn2mQ5_SulEsaO9Cy0T-j46Gl_MOfITGUi8vG7a0uMqkg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="1076" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4tjsT_WDemeheiHzEUfGrhQ-ZHLlGQIQ0GHZR1WlaAFJLFejxBIKEPk_ZaL2BZRPlqukdYoaA3bMtplaIlPoR2o8K2NTMS9XtJudCFGSNt5a7KojMd6B3VtlnNTtgp-yQAhAqm-pDamBV6Cn2mQ5_SulEsaO9Cy0T-j46Gl_MOfITGUi8vG7a0uMqkg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #434241; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; letter-spacing: 0.08px;">The Samuel Beckett Research Centre at the University of Reading this week announced the appointment of two new Creative Fellows 2022-23: Claire-Louise Bennett and Simon Okotie.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #434241; letter-spacing: 0.08px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #434241; letter-spacing: 0.08px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Over the course of their year-long Fellowships, the two authors will engage with the contents, history and spaces of the world-leading archive relating to Samuel Beckett’s work which is held at the University’s Special Collections. Supported by colleagues at the Samuel Beckett Research Centre, through this engagement with the archives they will produce new creative work, to be premiered at the end of their time with us. Claire-Louise and Simon follow our previous fellows, Hannah Khalil, Duncan Campbell, Eimear McBride, and novelist Robert McCrum and composer Tim Parkinson, in accepting a Creative Fellowship at the Centre. We are very excited about the opportunity to work with them</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><footer class="entry-footer" style="background-color: white; border-top: 1px solid rgb(195, 195, 195); box-sizing: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.08px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 20px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: red;">5. Kevin Boniface klaxon!</span><span style="color: #0f1419;"> </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; letter-spacing: 0.08px;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0f1419;">Our Kevin in conversation with Joe Thompson in </span><i style="color: #0f1419;">The Quietus</i><span style="color: #0f1419;">: </span></span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0f1419;">"</span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: courier; font-size: small; letter-spacing: 0.08px;">As far as creativity is concerned, for me it’s the access you get. You can go wherever you want and people tend to ignore you, which is very useful. People don’t ask too many questions, because you’re a postman. Making notes and writing things down, the observational stuff, that was the real eye opener for me. Having access to all different parts of town that I never would have gone to. These are all residential areas that people don’t go to, unless you’re working there. There’s no shops there half the time. Just wandering around residential areas, people don’t do that, unless they’re a postman or a thief!"</span></footer><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 1em 0px 2em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0f1419; letter-spacing: 0.08px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read the complete interview </span><a href="https://thequietus.com/articles/32460-joe-thompson-kevin-boniface-postmen-interview-royal-mail" style="letter-spacing: 0.08px;">here.</a> </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Kevin gives generous shout outs to the writers he admires: Wendy Erskine, Tim Etchells, Tony White, Sayaka Murata, Amy MacAuley, Rónán Hession and Dan Rhodes. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.2px; margin: 1em 0px 2em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Solidarity with the postal workers!</span></p></div><div><b><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">_______________</span></span></b></div><div><b><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b><span><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">6. Oh yes it is!</span></span></b></div><div><b><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The Glue Factory is now closed, shuttered, heavily graffitied and soon to be targeted by arsonists. But the Carthorse Orchestra Players will reunite for one more time in that otherwise flat period following Boxing Day, and we'll be performing a timeless classic. There's also likely to be some swearing.</span></span></b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p1" style="background-color: #fb0207; color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: #fb0207; color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>A</b></span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>GRAND <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>seasonal<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pantomime</b></span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At 7:30pm ON tuesday 27th DECEMBER 2022</b></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Carthorse Orchestra Players<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span></b></span><span class="s3" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>present</b></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fb0207; color: #ffff0a; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 64px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">P E T E R<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>P A N</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;">or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s6" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s7" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>adapted from the celebrated play</b></span><span class="s8" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s3" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>by MR. </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>J.M. Barrie</b></span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p8" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s10" style="color: black; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>A Benefit Performance in aid of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>THE TRUSSELL TRUST</b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>S T A R R I N G</b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the role she she was born to play<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Copperplate;"><span style="font-size: 36px;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Phosphate;"><span style="font-size: 48px;">Miss Wendy Erskine</span></span></span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s11" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As</span><span class="s5" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="s12" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Wendy darling</span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s13" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: blue;"> </span>*</b></span><span class="s14" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>*******************</b></span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s15" style="color: #3f691e; font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> That polygot phenomenon</span></b></span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s16" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s17" style="color: #3f691e; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Mr Frank Wynne</span><span class="s18" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s2" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s19" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s11" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">As</span><span class="s12" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> Captain Hook</span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s12" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></p><p class="p15" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #3f691e; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> Celebrated Author and Musician</span></b></span></p><p class="p16" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #558e28; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s5" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s20" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">MR.</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> Rónán Hession</span></p><p class="p17" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s21" style="color: #558e28; font-kerning: none;">as </span><span class="s22" style="color: #558e28; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Mr</span><span class="s21" style="color: #558e28; font-kerning: none;">.</span><span class="s22" style="color: #558e28; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> smee</span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s23" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The dashing matinee idle<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s23" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s11" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s20" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Master<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> SAMUEL SKOOG</span><span class="s24" style="color: black; font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p19" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s25" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">As</span><span class="s26" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>PETER PAN</span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s20" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s25" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px; white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Whitstable’s pre-eminent tragedian</b></span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s23" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s20" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Mr.</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> Kevin Davey<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>as</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;">J. M. Barrie</span></p><p class="p22" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s27" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>F</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>U</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>L</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>L </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>S</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>U</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>P</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>P</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>O</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>R</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>T</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>I</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>N</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>G </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>C</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>A</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>S</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>T</b></span><span class="s23" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Ooh la la! Anglo-Gallic hilarity!</b></span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> with</span></span></b></span></p><p class="p23" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mme.</b></span><span class="s30" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Susanna Crossman</span></span><span class="s30" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 24px;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p23" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s7" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> MONSIEUR </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ANDREW ZeC</span></span><span class="s31" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as Mary & George George darling</b></span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s20" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">Alice &<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sophia</span></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s32" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as themselves</b></span></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> "</span>The two daves"</b></span></p><p class="p26" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s23" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Henningham<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>&<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Collard</span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And diverting contributions from</span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s16" style="color: black; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Yorkshire’s First Family of Fun</b></span></p><p class="p23" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s7" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span></b></span><span class="s11" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Mr.</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kevin ‘Sherry’ BONIFACE <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p23" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s11" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mrs.</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> Georgia ‘Giggles’ BONIFACE </span><span class="s24" style="color: black; font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s33" style="color: black; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s16" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s25" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">MISS </span><span class="s26" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> MOLLY BONIFACE</span></p><p class="p27" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s7" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(By kind permission of the Camel Club, Huddersfield)</b></span><span class="s7" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p27" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s7" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p27" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s7" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p27" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s7" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span style="color: #6aa84f;"> That broth of a boy from the emerald isle</span></span></b></span></p><p class="p23" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mr Gavin Clarke</span><span class="s31" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s11" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">as Pirate Murphy</span></span><span class="s31" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="color: #6aa84f;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: black;"> </span></b></span><span class="s24" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s23" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s34" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="color: #fb0207; white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #fb0207;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="s24" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">the mermaids</span></b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s24" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #fb0207;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Marie-Elsa Bragg * Emma Devlin * Ariel Andressen</b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>LAURA HOPKINS</b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></span><span class="s35" style="color: black; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>and</b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>‘The Fast Belle of Belfast’</span></p><p class="p26" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Emma Devlin</span></p><p class="p17" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s36" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">As</span><span class="s5" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="s20" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Tinkerbell</span><span class="s35" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s10" style="color: black; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s32" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>************</b></span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with an instructive preamble by</b></span></p><p class="p22" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s10" style="color: black; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s23" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>Miss</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> Melissa McCarthy</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: red;">a</span> </b></span><span class="s37" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #fb0207;">valedictory appearance</span><span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></span></p><p class="p30" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s36" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Miss</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> AEA VARFIs - VAN WARMELo</span></p><p class="p31" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 9px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span></b></span></p><p class="p31" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 9px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Original music composed and performed by </b></span><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Acclaimed </b></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>empress of all the Ivories</b></p><p class="p22" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s30" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>MISS </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Helen Ottaway</b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p32" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p31" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 9px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> This production contains mild peril, flashing lights and swearing</span></b></span></p><p class="p31" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 9px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s39" style="color: black; font-kerning: none; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="s7" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>- NO REFUNDS -</b></span></p><p class="p33" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p33" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_______________</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">7. New Year gift ideas</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Struggling for inspiration? There are still a few copies of<i> Multiple Joyce </i>left and they're likely to be valuable collector's items because they are, uniquely, <i>unsigned</i>.</span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjabpgfpsfVJflJLs5uGmWLPZGQDrQhPMVuWE-vG6q2Xki7ArjwM1CXWTx7hf-QRMZNxcTWc66uUWcy-Kx5vQ2MccGu2fCHsnJyW_smsug_IbqqW0dilpjJr_7p4T4BKe6Pi8ackbvdK4d_DuVdx0gem_w1uKP4IICkKXfmz5DjGz-ECrf8qTFg-XdZhA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjabpgfpsfVJflJLs5uGmWLPZGQDrQhPMVuWE-vG6q2Xki7ArjwM1CXWTx7hf-QRMZNxcTWc66uUWcy-Kx5vQ2MccGu2fCHsnJyW_smsug_IbqqW0dilpjJr_7p4T4BKe6Pi8ackbvdK4d_DuVdx0gem_w1uKP4IICkKXfmz5DjGz-ECrf8qTFg-XdZhA" width="164" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Buy buy buy here here here: </span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/"><b>https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/</b></a></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;">And here's a recording of me gassing on about the links between Joyce and Anthony Burgess with Andrew Biswell of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N9KOGaXjxo">Burgess Foundation</a>. Perfect easy listening for this time of the year. </span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_______________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">8. Forthcoming in 2023</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">As mentioned in the previous newsletter I'll continue to subscribe to Zoom and have invited indie publishers to use the platform to launch new books or promote their authors. I'm happy to say therte's already been some interest so if you're on this mailing list you can expect the odd invitation to online events in 2023.</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">First up will be the novelist Todd McEwan's new collection of essays <i>Cary Grant's Suit</i>, published by Notting Hill Editions</span></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">________________</b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">9. The Way things Are Now</span></b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">An eloquent four minute news update from </span></b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gljtvwhcdhc">Jonathan Pie</a><span>.</span></span> Do click and watch.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>________________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">10. The last nudge</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span>For food banks this is usually their busiest time of the year.</span></b></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span><a href="goog_496864924"><br /></a></span></b></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/">Click here to donate</a></b></span><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">
The earlier you can get your donations in the better, so there’s time to get them where they need to go in time. </b></span><span style="font-weight: bold; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Thank you for supporting your local food bank this winter.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_______________</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">11. PS</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Finally, and for nostalgists, here's a copy of the very first Glue Newsletter, or 'Gluesletter' if you will, from October last year. It's changed a bit since then, but not that much. My choice of Courier Bold as afont was there from the start, although the blood and custard masthead chaned to the colours of the Ukrainian national flag in February. </span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p2" style="background-color: #fb0207; color: #ffff0a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: #fb0207; color: #ffff0a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Glue Factory <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: #fb0207; color: #ffff0a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 29px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Sunday 3rd October </b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Let’s see if this works - a weekly newsletter to keep the balls rolling after the end of Carthorse Orchestra, and a way to stay in touch.</span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The plan is to send these out every week on late Sunday afternoons.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The Glue Factory (an obvious sequel to The Knacker’s Yard) will bring to your attention the kind of things that featured in our online gatherings.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">I’m open to suggestions, </span><span class="s3" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none;"><b>so</b></span><span class="s2" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;"><b> </b></span><span class="s3" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none;"><b>please email me with anything you’d like to see included in future issues</b>. </span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Authors, indie publishers, press agents, creative practitioners of all kinds are welcome with open arms. Within reason. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Thanks.</span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Stay well.</span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">David</span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_________________________________________________</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>In Search of Lost Tim</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Tim Etchells</b> delivered two mesmerising monologues at the final Carthorse gathering. He couldn’t be present in person because he was otherwise engaged, launching a huge public artwork at the Centre Pompidou. He sent a picture, which I attach: QU’Y A-T-IL ENTRE NOUS?(Roughly: WHAT IS THERE BETWEEN US?). This is one of five neon artworks dotted around the city. More details of this and Tim’s other activities here: <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><a href="goog_1089168814"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></a></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/XRbbn4t">https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/program/calendar/event/XRbbn4t</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_________________________________________________</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Hail, Fellows</b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Congratulations to Carthorse regular <b>Wendy Erskine</b>, who joins singer<b> Tim Wheeler</b> and the poet and philosopher <b>Denise Riley </b>as a Seamus Heaney Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast.</span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">More on that here:</span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>https://www.qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/featured/QueensannouncesWendyErskineDeniseRileyandTimWheelerasnextSeamusHeaneyFellows.html</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Oddly the press release doesn’t mention Denise Riley’s astonishing <i>Time Lived, Without Its Flow. </i>A slender book about loss and grief described to me by the author David Hayden as ‘a cathedral in a matchbox’.</span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i></i></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/denise-riley/time-lived-without-its-flow/9781529017106">https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/denise-riley/time-lived-without-its-flow/9781529017106</a></b></span></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_________________________________________________</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Your only man</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Tony White</b>’s hilarious short story ‘Plain Speaking’, a highlight of the last Carthorse, will be published this Tuesday to mark the 110th birthday of Brian O’Nolan, aka Flann O’Brian aka Myles nGopaleen. See Tony’s website: <b><a href="https://pieceofpaperpress.com/">https://pieceofpaperpress.com/</a></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_________________________________________________</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Reel lives</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="color: black; font-kerning: none;">The film maker <b>Chiara Ambrosia</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> (who shared her beautiful short film <i>The Ghost Frequency</i> about an abandoned Italian village on A Leap in the Dark last year) has a new film which will have a first screening in London’s Whitechapel Art Gallery this week. On Thursday, in fact.</span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Details here:</span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/unquiet-earth/?fbclid=IwAR2EXaTfOvSHteDLVuRAPkTIAjCDMYCC2_rNEBwF5WNSALZ-8sAOKdWu930">https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/events/unquiet-earth/?fbclid=IwAR2EXaTfOvSHteDLVuRAPkTIAjCDMYCC2_rNEBwF5WNSALZ-8sAOKdWu930</a></b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">And you can watch <b>Samuel Skoog</b>’s extraordinary and startling poetic short <i>Aphos Collage</i> here: </span><span class="s4" style="color: black; font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="https://skoogtheatre.com/2021/10/03/aphos-prologue/">https://skoogtheatre.com/2021/10/03/aphos-prologue/</a></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_________________________________________________</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Indie presses</b></span><span class="s2" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p15" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The links to indie books promoted on the final Carthorse are below:</b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p16" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Blackstaff Press, Belfast</b></span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="https://blackstaffpress.com/the-black-dreams-9781780733289">https://blackstaffpress.com/the-black-dreams-9781780733289</a></b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Emma Devlin</b> posted this in the chat room: from the indie Belfast publisher Blackstaff Press (new to me), which includes a story she wrote about ‘a strange and wilful sea’<b>.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p15" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p16" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Galley Beggar Press</b></span></p><p class="p17" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="http://www.galleybeggar.co.uk">www.galleybeggar.co.uk</a></b></span></p><p class="p18" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p19" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Sagging Meniscus Press</b></span></p><p class="p17" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="http://www.saggingmeniscus.com">www.saggingmeniscus.com</a></b></span></p><p class="p18" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p19" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Weatherglass Books</b></span></p><p class="p17" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="http://www.weatherglassbooks.com">www.weatherglassbooks.com</a></b></span></p><p class="p15" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p20" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Henningham Family Press</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="http://www.henninghamfamilypress.co.uk">www.henninghamfamilypress.co.uk</a></b></span></p><p class="p22" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Books currently published by David and Ping Henningham:</b></span></p><p class="p22" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Tomb Guardians</i> by Paul Griffiths:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HenninghamPress">https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HenninghamPress</a></b></span></p><p class="p22" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pupa</i> by J. O. Morgan:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.henninghamfamilypress.co.uk/books/pupa/">https://www.henninghamfamilypress.co.uk/books/pupa/</a></b></span></p><p class="p22" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Blackbir</i>d by Claire Allen:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://www.henninghamfamilypress.co.uk/books/the-blackbird/">https://www.henninghamfamilypress.co.uk/books/the-</a></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b> <a href="https://www.henninghamfamilypress.co.uk/books/the-blackbird/">blackbird/</a></b></p><p class="p18" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p17" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Lost Spell</i> by Yismake Worku trans. Bethlehem Attfield: <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://unbound.com/books/the-lost-spell">https://unbound.com/books/the-lost-spell</a></b></span></p><p class="p18" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p17" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Foulness</i>, a novel by David Henningham crowdfunding now :<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p17" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://unbound.com/books/foulness">https://unbound.com/books/foulness</a></b></span></p><p class="p18" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p17" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Email <a href="mailto:david@henninghamfamilypress.co.uk">david@henninghamfamilypress.co.uk</a> to express an </b></span></p><p class="p17" style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b> interest in <i>Dedalus</i> by Chris McCabe</b></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>And another thing…</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">I was unable to include this in the selection of forthcoming books from indie publishers, so here’s news from <b>Kevin Duffy</b> of the mighty Bluemoose Books in Hebden Bridge:</span></p><p class="p23" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>I Am Not Your Eve</b> <b>by Devika Ponnambalam</b></span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Devika was born in Brunei, moved to London and now lives in Edinburgh. She has an MA in Creative writing from UEA and is an award winning short film maker and her recent film of the same name was shown last year at the Poona Short Film Festival in India. She has spent 17 years writing this novel and received a grant from Scottish arts to go and do research on Tahiti where she met Teha'amana's great grand daughter.</span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">A few words from Devika:</span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">The idea for the book began with the painting Manao Tupapau/The Spirit of the Dead Keeps Watch. It is Paul Gauguin’s masterpiece from his first stay in Tahiti from 1891-93. In it, Teha’amana, his '12 year old' muse and lover, lies naked on his bed, looking back at him. I wanted to give her a voice, the Tahitian girl who became Gauguin’s ‘wife’ and whose story has never been told.</span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Gauguin died of syphilis. Was he already carrying the disease when he arrived on the island? What did she think of the painter – the man who makes human beings? What did she think of the painting that connected me to her, across time, race, and geography? What happened to her after he left? These questions, her story haunted me, and bringing her voice to the page has been my obsession for the 17 years it took to write it!</span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Gaugin gives her a broach and she says:</span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">'They glint, your gift, in the half-light of this half-life, for me, your half-wife.'</span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">It is a novel of a woman finding her voice, of being unsilenced, about European exceptionalism and the exoticisation of the islands and the islanders. It is a lyrical literary love song to the islands, its myths and legends and I can say that in the 35 years of being involved in publishing, I have never read anything like it. It moved to me to tears. Of course the Gaugin family will hate it and throw up their hands about different times but he wouldn't have wanted the same life for his 12 year old daughter back in Paris, would he?</span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Published by Bluemoose Books on March 28th 2022.</span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_________________________________________________</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Stakeholders only</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Dracula - the Untold Story</b> (designed by <b>Laura Hopkins</b>) is now running at the Leeds Playhouse and then touring. Read the FIVE STAR review here:</span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/sep/30/dracula-the-untold-story-review-leeds-playhouse</span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Laura is working on a new website. Meanwhile here’s a slide show of her pre-pandemic work in theatre: <b><a href="https://vimeo.com/588511756">https://vimeo.com/588511756</a></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_________________________________________________</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p26" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Latte adopters welcome</b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Paul Stanbridge</b> is the genius behind <i>Forbidden Line</i> (his first novel, which I blogged about here:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="https://davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2020/03/forbidden-line-by-paul-stanbridge.html">https://davidjcollard.blogspot.com/2020/03/forbidden-line-by-paul-stanbridge.html</a></b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">His next novel will be <i>My Mind To me A Kingdom Is</i>, published by Galley Beggar Press. Between the two lies a singular creation which we shared on the last night of the Carthorse:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Encyclopaedia of St Arbuc<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><a href="https://saintarbuc.wordpress.com">https://saintarbuc.wordpress.com</a></b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">You know what to do, so get weaving and be part of the most outrageously original work of contemporary fiction - a book as big as the world. And the merry prankster who added my name to the landing page? Just you wait. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_________________________________________________</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 21px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p26" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>What the young people are doing</b></span></p><p class="p15" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Finally, the ever-resourceful <b>Jake Goldsmith </b>has launched something which I don’t fully understand, because computers. But it’s a Very Good Thing and enables recovering Carthorsians a way of keeping in touch with one another. Here it is: </span><span class="s5" style="color: #103cc0; font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b><a href="https://discord.gg/qmYZuSAG">https://discord.gg/qmYZuSAG</a></b></span></p><p class="p27" style="background-color: white; color: #103cc0; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span class="s6" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_________________________________________________</b></span></p><p class="p27" style="background-color: white; color: #103cc0; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span class="s6" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p26" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p27" style="background-color: white; color: #103cc0; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 16px;"><span class="s6" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>And that’s it from the Glue Factory.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space">Thank you all.</span></b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Let’s stick together.</b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>David x</b></span></p></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">___________________</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">All good wishes for 2023 and beyond</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">David x</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-73722291617268185972022-12-11T06:26:00.038+00:002022-12-11T06:39:07.496+00:00Newsletter 62<p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Dear Friends of the Glue Factory</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>This is not quite the last newsletter - that will be next Sunday (18th December). But <i>this</i> Sunday sees </b></span><b style="font-family: courier;">our final live online gathering, the 150th show. It's a two-hour programme (with an interval) featuring highlights from the entire series. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: courier;">There will be music, film, poetry, prose, polemic, translation, a review of all the books featured in the past 49 shows and my own selection of Books of the Year. Plus a few surprises and the trademark technical dexterity.</b><b style="font-family: courier;"> </b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>For the past three years I have invited donations to The Trussell Trust from Glue Factory audiences and newsletter readers but for this, the final show, I'd like to invite you all to make a donation to the Barbellion Prize. Details below.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">It only remains for me to give my heartfelt thanks to everyone taking part in The Glue Factory over the past 12 months - I'm currently uploading a complete list of the contributors to <a href="https://davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site">my website</a> with notes on each. There are too many to thank by name on the night.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And of course I want to thank you all, as subscribers, readers and audience members, for supporting the gatherings and (this is the reason for it all) The Trussell Trust, whose work has never been more necessary than it is today. </span></b></p><div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Now, where were we?</span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">__________________________</b></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"> </span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">Newsletter contents</b> </p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></p><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. This week’s online gathering </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span>Guillemot Press</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> Sagging Meniscus Press</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span>4. <i>Review 31</i> Books of the Year 2022</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><b><span>5. </span></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b><i>Autobiology</i> by Joanna Walsh</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><b><span>6. </span></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>Natalia Zagórska-Thomas: </b></span></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span><i>The Camden Town Hoard</i></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span>7. Pasolini cenetenary events at the Italian Institute in London</span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span>8. David Bremner klaxon</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span> </span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span>9. Last minute plug</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span>10. Next week's nonline gathering</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span>11. Nudge</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span>12. PS</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span>13. PPS</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><b style="font-family: courier;">____________________</b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">1. Aid for Ukraine</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"> </span></b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">I first added this opening item in February following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and I hope - I know - it has prompted readers to donate to the British Red Cross, which is doing a lot of good work in the devastated region. </span></b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">You can donate quickly and easily </span><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a><span style="color: #2b00fe;">. W</span></span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;">hatever you can, whenever you can.</b></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;">Thank you.</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>____________________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>2. This week's online gathering</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>This week is not only the last in this series of fifty programmes but also the last of all the live online gatherings that began in March 2020. That's 150 programmes in all (plus a few specials) amounting to well over 300 hours of top-flight entertainment and more than 500 guests from all over the world</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Much of this final programme has been chosen by audience members who have requested particular highlights from the past year - things they missed or things they'd like to see again. Plus a few things of my own and the odd beneficial shock.</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Taking part (mostly in pre-recorded form) will be </b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Sara Baume, Kevin Boniface, Marie-Elsa Bragg, David Bremner, Ray Davis, Wendy Erskine, Jake Goldsmith, </b><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Rónán</b></span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"> Hession,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><span class="s1" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><b>Michael Horden, Michael Hughes, Laura Hopkins, Alex Kapila, Penny McCarthy, Paige Niblet, Julian Stannard, </b></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Guillermo Stitch, Philip Terry, Aea Varfis van Warmelo, Tony White and illustrious others.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">It's a two-hour programme starting at the usual time, and with a musical interval. I want to go out with a bang so in a change to our established practice this final gathering will be a one-off fundraiser for </b><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b><a href="https://www.thebarbellionprize.com/">The Barbellion Prize</a>, </b></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b>dedicated to the furtherance of ill and disabled voices in writing. The prize is awarded annually to an author whose work has best represented the experience of chronic illness and/or disability.</b></span></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Last weekend I sent out emails to many different literary communities - to writers and publishers and aganets and others, and the response has been absolutely wonderful. Thanks to all of you reading this who have already contributed. The future of the prize is now secure for this year (and the longlist will be announced on 16th December), but we need to look beyond that and more donations are needed.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Its founder Jake Goldsmith, a Glue Factory regular, deserves our full support so let's stick together and see if we can raise a hefty sum to help secure the future of the prize. If everyone in the audience contributes at least £20 each we'll easily raise around £500, which will bring the fund to £2,000, and we can feel good about that. Perhaps even more, in which case we can all feel even better. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">And if you can't afford it that's fine. These are dark and difficult times.</b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>And if you <i>can</i> afford twenty quid, why not make it fifty? Come on. </b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>____________________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Guillemot Press </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>The last book of 2022 from this'Independent Publisher of Pamphlets and Beautiful Books'</b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"> </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">is <i>A Guillemot Guide to Very Small Press Publishing</i> by the press's founder LukeThompson. A practical guide with lots of information backed up with examples and stories from the Guillemot experience. Available <a href="http://guillemotpress.co.uk/nonfiction" style="color: red;">here.</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Have a look at their website. You'll find not just breathtakingly lovely books and pamphlets of prose and poetry but also some very affordable original watercolours by Jen Hadfield and woodcuts by Anupa Gardner. </b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/">https://www.guillemotpress.co.uk/</a></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Among the Guillemot poets to feature on our online gatherings are James Goodman, Kirsten Irving, Amv McCauley and Astra Papachristodoulou. </b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-6gpygo r-1fz3rvf" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: Times; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 12px 12px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-14gqq1x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Sagging Meniscus Press</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>There's plenty coming your way from New York's finest indie in 2023, including a new book of essays by me early in 2024 (as confirmed below). Click on titles for more details.</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Winter 2022</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ Stories by Dawn Raffel: <a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/boundless_as_the_sky/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Boundless as the Sky</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ New poetry by Mike Silverton: <a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/trios/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Trios</a>. (as featured on The Glue Factory last Sunday)</p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Spring 2023</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ Frederick Mark Kramer’s <a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/cafe_purgatorio/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Café Purgatorio</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ A major book-length poem from Joseph Reich: <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">How to Shoot a Tourist (with a bow & arrow) in a Hot-Air Balloon</em>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ Seth Rogoff’s <a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/kirschbaum_lectures/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">The Kirschbaum Lectures</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ An essay collection from Kat Meads: <a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/these_particular_women/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">These Particular Women</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ Stories by M.J. Nicholls: <a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/violent_solutions/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Violent Solutions to Popular Problems</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ Lee Klein’s <a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/chaotic_good/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Chaotic Good</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ Joe Taylor’s <a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/highway_28_west/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Highway 28 West</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h2 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Fall 2023 & Beyond</span></h2><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ Tomoé Hill’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Songs for Olympia</em>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ Melissa McCarthy’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Photo, Phyto, Proto, Nitro</em>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ Jon Curtiss’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">All My Darlings</em>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ M.J. Nicholls’ <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Fall and Fall of Derek Haffman</em>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ New essays by David Collard.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ New poetry by Kurt Luchs.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ New novels by Lee Klein and P.J. Blumenthal.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;">☞ Aug Stone’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sporting Moustaches</em>.</p></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>____________________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Barbellion Prize</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Just a reminder to read the note about this week's gathering (above).</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b style="color: black;">____________________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>4. Review 31 Books of the Year </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>Some<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/114/review-31's-books-of-the-year"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">excellent choices</span></a><span style="color: red;"> </span>by <i>Review 31</i> readers,<span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span><b style="font-family: courier;">including Nathan Knapp on Charles Boyle's <i>99 Interruptions </i>(CB editions) and Liam Bishop on Yuri Felsen's <i>Deceit</i> (Prototype), translated from the Russian by Brian Karetnyk. Both books featured in The Glue Factory this year. Plus my own choice - J O Morgan's mind-blowing dystopian novel </b><b style="font-family: courier;"><i>Appliance</i> (published by Jonathan Cape).</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b></span><b style="font-family: courier;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBT-OaDtkaqiNvIO4VufJaHRmTK_fGrQUcBwcTSwBXHo8KWq6aUwv7LPjSqa3VCvpg_EahbDGFX6yZJVM3fB_NVSbe0d4wvhackCUNg-7dIs9T1ZzxrHf7QiF7CX-r8bvkOXqT_5DbJRkPTnH6gucAmIDDtBznXWD9_SP-t4MUGL6IVycqm_3qvaFnUg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="120" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBT-OaDtkaqiNvIO4VufJaHRmTK_fGrQUcBwcTSwBXHo8KWq6aUwv7LPjSqa3VCvpg_EahbDGFX6yZJVM3fB_NVSbe0d4wvhackCUNg-7dIs9T1ZzxrHf7QiF7CX-r8bvkOXqT_5DbJRkPTnH6gucAmIDDtBznXWD9_SP-t4MUGL6IVycqm_3qvaFnUg" width="153" /></a></div><br /></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Review 31</i> is an excellent online journal founded and edited by my pal Houman Barekat. I've contributed a few things over the years and am always happy to nominate my Book of the Year. In case these are of interest here are links to the previous years:</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/103/review-31's-books-of-the-year">2021 Books of the Year</a></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/91/review-31%27s-books-of-the-year">2020 Books of the Year</a></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/80/review-31%27s-books-of-the-year">2019 Books of the Year</a></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>____________________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>5. Autobiology by Joanna Walsh</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Always ahead of the curve, novelist Joanna Walsh ahs been working with AI and the latest outcome is AUTOBIOLOGY,</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is now available to buy. It's a novel published under her name yet not written by her. And at the same time it's 100% her own work.</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This Castle Freak undertaking assimilates Joanna's explorations in autofiction into a computer consciousness that reconstructs "her" and calls into question the very nature of writing & self.</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intrigued? More here: </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/3Zvdnl06sG" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">http://</span>insidethecastle.org/autobiolog</a></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgHgE0m_ov4gWXI3s1JrrC-un0Wv28BeBe5ADQeN6ywPgESVpYvoXz8Hh_CVwolv8pUdTawjhtxalNDZtyvafRYwu5k4wQm9rBAuGeIDkMC7qaCHxztRBO9-4IQJbv_3UDyDswOooj89f7MhFCBnY68ExThYaUXw81aI2wICZ52SE82J7P4QeH48ytcw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="1064" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgHgE0m_ov4gWXI3s1JrrC-un0Wv28BeBe5ADQeN6ywPgESVpYvoXz8Hh_CVwolv8pUdTawjhtxalNDZtyvafRYwu5k4wQm9rBAuGeIDkMC7qaCHxztRBO9-4IQJbv_3UDyDswOooj89f7MhFCBnY68ExThYaUXw81aI2wICZ52SE82J7P4QeH48ytcw" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>____________________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>6. The Camden Town Hoard</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>Last Sunday's online gathering featured the conservator and artist </b></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Natalia Zagórska-Thomas </b></span></span><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">in a pre-recorded talk about her forthcoming collaboration <i>The Camden Town Hoard</i>. Sadly the sound quality let us down, but happily you can see and hear the whole thing on VIMEO here:</span> <span style="color: red;">[awaiting link]</span></b></div><div><span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: courier; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_h2a2EYBVEwe3VmnAR5BfzWJXLyRSeX9XmUTloo7wuzYLv0ObFsHxcCej_YDAJaeWkNjzwjSoMKdZOiKOasjsFDloclG0Spga431OkYp6Bfz-F5Bbv0M6UOAXMJYaTQ_rmwZ3G0QkdBvEMKC2N8vWA7L69KwBivUc3XoYzEIMbyie-s7ExGqy7tx1BQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="381" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_h2a2EYBVEwe3VmnAR5BfzWJXLyRSeX9XmUTloo7wuzYLv0ObFsHxcCej_YDAJaeWkNjzwjSoMKdZOiKOasjsFDloclG0Spga431OkYp6Bfz-F5Bbv0M6UOAXMJYaTQ_rmwZ3G0QkdBvEMKC2N8vWA7L69KwBivUc3XoYzEIMbyie-s7ExGqy7tx1BQ" width="156" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: courier;">This catalogue is curated and introduced by Natalia with</b><b style="font-family: courier;"> a Foreword by David Thorp and contributions from</b><b style="font-family: courier;">: Róisín Tierney, Simon Zagórski-Thomas, Kevin Boniface, Ian Duhig, Alex Zagórska-Thomas, Adam Stinson, Nancy Campbell, Julian Stannard, Phyllis Stein, Marius Kociejowski, Katy Evans-Bush, Will Eaves, Amy McCauley, Gavin Clarke, Charles Boyle, Natalia Zagórska-Thomas, Ruth Fainlight, Mervyn Diese, Sophie Herxheimer, Helen Wilks, Christopher Reid, Andrzej Maria Borkowski.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: courier;">This is a joint publication from </b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://studioexpurgamento.com">Studio Expurgamento</a></b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"> (Natalia's Camden gallery) and CB editions. Read an extract and order a copy </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.cbeditions.com/CamdenTownHoard.html">here.</a></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-family: courier;">____________________</b></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">7. Pasolini centenary at the Italian Institute, London</span></b></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div>Thanks to Cristina Viti (the translator of Paolini's blazing poem la rabbia, who appeared on The Glue Factory last month) news of the Pasolini centenary exhibition which opened on Friday at the Italian Institute. Details here:</div><div style="color: red;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://iiclondra.esteri.it/iic_londra/en/gli_eventi/calendario/2022/12/pasolini-fotografie-di-dino-pedriali.html&source=gmail&ust=1670588845474000&usg=AOvVaw1JXSlX05JaoAUgF5Dbc0hA" href="https://iiclondra.esteri.it/iic_londra/en/gli_eventi/calendario/2022/12/pasolini-fotografie-di-dino-pedriali.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://iiclondra.esteri.it/<wbr></wbr>iic_londra/en/gli_eventi/<wbr></wbr>calendario/2022/12/pasolini-<wbr></wbr>fotografie-di-dino-pedriali.<wbr></wbr>html</a></div><div><br /></div><div>The launch of Cristina's translation (published by Tenement Press) will be on Monday 16th January. Tickets are free (but you have to book) </div><div style="color: red;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://iiclondra.esteri.it/iic_londra/en/gli_eventi/calendario/2023/01/pier-paolo-pasolini-la-rabbia-anger.html&source=gmail&ust=1670588845474000&usg=AOvVaw1nQ53DUjfITxoZpl3wciPX" href="https://iiclondra.esteri.it/iic_londra/en/gli_eventi/calendario/2023/01/pier-paolo-pasolini-la-rabbia-anger.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://iiclondra.esteri.it/<wbr></wbr>iic_londra/en/gli_eventi/<wbr></wbr>calendario/2023/01/pier-paolo-<wbr></wbr>pasolini-la-rabbia-anger.html</a></div><div style="color: red;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: 400;" /></div></span></b></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>And here's another event to look out for in January....</b></span></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">S J Fowler at the National Gallery, London</span></b></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><br /></b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Something to look forward to in the new year. Steven Fowler will be appearing on January 20th </span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/NationalGallery" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@NationalGallery</a></span></div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> lates. </span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Details here: </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/ZsLuFs7zLs" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>nationalgallery.org.uk/events/talks-</a></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;">____________________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>8. David Bremner klaxon!</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The Dublin-based composer David Bremner has been a regular contributor to our live gatherings. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">His forthcoming album release (which features our favourite Dublin soprano Elizabeth Hilliard, also a Glue Factory regular) is called <i>Mixed Circuits,</i> responding to texts by Rosmarie Waldrop and the Irish poet Billy Mills.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Each of the four works on this
double-album is a cycle of
several short movements or
panels, investigating a single
impulse: the exploration of a
minimal, drone aesthetic
through an atonal harmonic
fabric of continuous gradual
unfolding. </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">From the press release:</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">'Gesture and
rhetoric are avoided in favour
of a flickering presence, with
imperceptible transitions.
Overlaid like quadrats on this elusive, amorphous organic material are clear-cut song
forms; they are overlaid independently of the material, so that material and form
question each other, sound each other out.' </div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Conceived in partnership with Farpoint Recordings as an intensive exploration of
cyclic form, and recorded and mixed/mastered by Farpoint’s David Stalling, the
release features various chamber music combinations of four stellar performers:
Andreea Banciu (viola), Elizabeth Hilliard (soprano), Paul Roe (clarinet) and Izumi
Kimura (piano). Included are two song-cycles, with texts by Bremner’s long-standing
collaborator Billy Mills, and Rosmarie Waldrop.</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The album is launched at midday today (December 11th)at the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin as part of the Sundays
@ Noon series. You can buy a copy here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.farpointrecordings.com/all-releases&source=gmail&ust=1670665653441000&usg=AOvVaw36tl5Z-xzOkpC5d4BprZEZ" href="https://www.farpointrecordings.com/all-releases" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>farpointrecordings.com/all-<wbr></wbr>releases</a>.</div></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><b>We'll include an exclusive extract from <i>Mixed Circuits</i> on tonight's online gathering, with thanks to David.</b></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;">____________________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>9. Last minute plug</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0e10;">Choosing <i>Multiple Joyce </i>as one of her </span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><a href="https://thelonelycrowd.org/2022/12/07/books-of-the-year-2022-part-one/">2022 Books of the Year</a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier;">, Irish novelist Nuala O'Connor (who was the very first to review it back in June) says '... it’s funny, learned, lively, and unique, and I absolutely loved its joyful energy."</span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier;">Also choosing </span><i style="color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier;">Multiple Joyce </i><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier;">as one of her books of the year, author and critic </span><span style="color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier;">Gráinne Murphy says ''funny, joyful, smart and often delightfully smart-arse.'</span></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier;">And according to M. John Harrison (no less) it's '</span></span></b><span style="color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>the funniest, most insightful book on Joyce.' Now that's the sort of thing to put the snap in a chap's celery.</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Go on. Go. on. Go <i>on</i> go <i>on</i> go <i>on</i> go <i>on</i>.</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxflg-Yf62aA1_rjSnfyjOyyJ_SKQHFrmC1qjInwUFk66up8DdCZJ2zbje2QhSKRFiWsgrwFOhru16abz1KjrYNehlg-C9Q-cGXiDpdhgisXPxd-LmNhG4pPkkan8E1KwOscCp4NArMWiGJcWbZH3UIPdTnT-35FgmRieiyMn7RAZc78KOyjPivle1JQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxflg-Yf62aA1_rjSnfyjOyyJ_SKQHFrmC1qjInwUFk66up8DdCZJ2zbje2QhSKRFiWsgrwFOhru16abz1KjrYNehlg-C9Q-cGXiDpdhgisXPxd-LmNhG4pPkkan8E1KwOscCp4NArMWiGJcWbZH3UIPdTnT-35FgmRieiyMn7RAZc78KOyjPivle1JQ" width="164" /></a></div><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0b0e10; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/">https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/</a></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;">____________________</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>10. Next week's nonline gathering</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;">You see what I did there? </span></div><div><b style="font-family: courier;">____________________</b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">11. Nudge</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">A penultimate elbow in the ribs. </span></b></span></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; font-weight: 700;">I don't like food banks, but without them vulnerable people would be starving. Not just the elderly and disabled and unemployed but also folk with full-time jobs who earn such a low income that they can't afford to heat their homes and feed themselves and their dependents.</span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Tories like food banks because they provide evidence that the Welfare State is no longer an effective and efficient means of supporting the poor and vulnerable. So they fetch up at openings to be photographed smiling at the camera while snipping a ribbon.</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Austerity is a political choice, not an economic necessity.</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Please continue to </span></b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/">support The Trussell Trust</a></b></span><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"> in any way you can.</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-family: courier;">____________________</b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">12. PS</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />I'm thinking about the future and about the 1,000+ newsletter subscribers. I'll continue to pay my monthly Zoom subscription and would like to offer use of this platform to the outside world </b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">I've already invited a number of indie publishers to use my Zoom account as a pop-up platform to promote new and forthcoming books and to showcase their past, current and future writers. So you'll be getting occasional invitations to such one-off events in the future and I hope you'll join the audience (as shall I).</b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">And I'd like to extend this invitation to all creative practitioners who would like to share their work with an audience.</b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">And you can also expect online events to mark the publication of the collaborative novel I'm currently editing with Jonathan Gibbs, as well as the forthcoming anthology of film writing edited by Richard Skinner (to which I contribute as nessay on Hitchcock's <i>The Trouble with Harry</i>)</b></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Please let me know if you'd rather not receive these notifications and I'll happily stop badgering you.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="font-family: courier;">____________________</b></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">13. PPS </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">There's still plenty of juice in the tank and we hope you'll join the audience for the Carthorse Orchestra Players in their third and final pantomime following the scandalous success of <i>A Christmas Carol </i>(2020) and <i>Through the looking-glass</i> (2021). </span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The Company will be joined by talented newcomers including the author Wendy Erskine playing Wendy Darling, a quite spectacular example of nominative determinism. </span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p1" style="background-color: #fb0207; color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!</span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: #fb0207; color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>A</b></span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>GRAND <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>seasonal<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pantomime</b></span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At 7:30pm ON tuesday 27th DECEMBER 2022</b></span></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Carthorse Orchestra Players<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span></b></span><span class="s3" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>present</b></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: #fb0207; color: #ffff0a; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s4" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 64px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">P E T E R<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>P A N</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: #fb0207; color: #ffff0a; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s5" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s6" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s7" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>adapted from the celebrated play</b></span><span class="s8" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s3" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>by MR. </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>J.M. Barrie</b></span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p8" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s10" style="color: black; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>A Benefit Performance in aid of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>THE TRUSSELL TRUST</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-weight: bold;"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span><b>*** </b></span><b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">WITH AN ALL-STAR CAST</span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> ***</span></b></p><p class="p8" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s11" style="color: black; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the role she she was born to play</b></span></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> The 'fast Belle' from Belfast<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s11" style="color: black; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p12" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Copperplate;"><span style="font-size: 36px;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Phosphate;"><span style="font-size: 48px;">Miss Wendy Erskine</span></span></span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As</span><span class="s5" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="s13" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Wendy darling</span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s14" style="color: blue; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s15" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>******************</b></span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s16" style="color: #3f691e; font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p14" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #3f691e; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s11" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s17" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s18" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">The polyglot phenomenon</span></p><p class="p15" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s19" style="color: #3f691e; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Mr Frank Wynne</span><span class="s20" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s2" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s21" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s12" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">As</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> Captain Hook</span></p><p class="p16" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #3f691e; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p17" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #3f691e; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span></b></span><span class="s22" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>Family Favourite</b></span></p><p class="p18" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p19" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #558e28; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s5" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s23" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">MR.</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> Rónán Hession</span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s24" style="color: #558e28; font-kerning: none;">as </span><span class="s25" style="color: #558e28; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Mr</span><span class="s24" style="color: #558e28; font-kerning: none;">.</span><span class="s25" style="color: #558e28; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> smee</span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s22" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The dashing matinee idle<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s22" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s12" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="p15" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s23" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Master<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> SAMUEL SKOOG</span><span class="s26" style="color: black; font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p22" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s18" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">As</span><span class="s27" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>PETER PAN</span></p><p class="p23" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Whitstable’s pre-eminent tragedian</b></span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s22" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Mr.</span><span class="s28" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> Kevin Davey </span><span class="s12" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">as<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">J. M. Barrie</span></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s28" style="font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 48px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>F</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>U</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>L</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>L </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>S</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>U</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>P</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>P</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>O</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>R</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>T</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>I</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>N</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>G </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>C</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>A</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>S</b></span><span class="s29" style="color: blue; font-kerning: none;"><b>T</b></span><span class="s22" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s9" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>with their unique brand of Anglo-Gallic hilarity</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p26" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mme.</b></span><span class="s30" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Susanna Crossman</span><span class="s30" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s7" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>MONSIEUR </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">ANDREW ZeC</span><span class="s31" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as Mary & George George darling</b></span></p><p class="p24" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s30" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s12" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">with</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> ALICE<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>&<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Sophia Crossman</span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s32" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as themselves</b></span></p><p class="p27" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> "</span>The two daves"</b></span></p><p class="p28" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s22" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Henningham<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>&<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Collard</span><span class="s11" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>as the darling boys, Michael and John</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>And diverting contributions from</span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p11" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s11" style="color: black; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Yorkshire’s First Family of Fun</b></span></p><p class="p26" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s7" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span></b></span><span class="s12" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Mr.</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kevin ‘Sherry’ BONIFACE <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p26" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s12" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mrs.</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> Georgia ‘Giggles’ BONIFACE </span><span class="s26" style="color: black; font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s33" style="color: black; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s11" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s18" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">MISS</span><span class="s27" style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> MOLLY BONIFACE</span></p><p class="p29" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s7" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Appearing by arrangement with the Camel Club, Huddersfield)</b></span><span class="s7" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p30" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span> </p><p class="p31" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #558e28; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s17" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">That broth of a boy from the Emerald Isle</span></p><p class="p32" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #558e28; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mr Gavin Clarke</span><span class="s30" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> </b></span><span class="s34" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">as</span><span class="s12" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> Pirate Murphy</span><span class="s30" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s31" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p33" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s26" style="color: black; font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s22" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s35" style="color: black; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s26" style="color: black; font-kerning: none;"><b>the mermaids <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Marie-Elsa Bragg * Emma Devlin * Ariel Andersse</b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s36" style="color: black; font-kerning: none; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>and</b></span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>‘Everyone’s favourite fairy’</span></p><p class="p28" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> <span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-size: 36px;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Amy McCauley</span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s34" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">As</span><span class="s5" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><span class="s23" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Tinkerbell</span><span class="s36" style="color: black; font-family: Copperplate; font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s10" style="color: black; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s32" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>************</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with an instructive preamble by</b></span></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s10" style="color: black; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><span class="s22" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b>Miss</b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> Melissa McCarthy</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>a </b></span><span class="s17" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none;"><b>valedictory appearance </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>by<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p34" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Phosphate; font-size: 24px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s34" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Miss</span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"> AEA VARFIs - VAN WARMELo</span></p><p class="p35" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 9px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> </span></b></span></p><p class="p35" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 9px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier;"> </span><span style="font-family: Copperplate;">Original music composed and performed by</span></b></span></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Acclaimed empress of all the Ivories</b></span></p><p class="p25" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #fb0207; font-family: Copperplate; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size: 36px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 24px;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 36px;"><b>Helen Ottaway</b></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 9px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></p><p class="p35" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 9px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s38" style="font-kerning: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></b></span><span class="s7" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p35" style="background-color: #ffff0a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 9px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 9px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="color: #fb0207; font-kerning: none; font-size: 18px;"><b> - NO REFUNDS -</b></span></p><p class="p40" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p40" style="background-color: #ffff0a; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Copperplate; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-54976920249400359762022-12-04T00:13:00.002+00:002022-12-04T08:28:43.500+00:00Newsletter 61<p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>4th December</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>I'm still on Twitter, but it's a bit like staying in a seaside resort after the crowds have left. The pier is still open and the lights are still on, but the cafes are empty, the gift shops shut. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>I'm also here now: </b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://@multiplejoyce@mastodon.social">@multiplejoyce@mastodon.social</a> Do join me.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Now. To business...</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Newsletter contents</b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. This week’s online gathering </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Bluemoose Books</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> Faber and Faber</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span><span> </span><span> Head of Zeus</span><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Sagging Meniscus Press</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> V & Q</span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>4. Last minute gift ideas for the bathroom</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>5. Auden on the BBC</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>6. <i>gorse</i> 11 goes to print</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>7. Elena Addomine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>8.<i> The Idler</i> (passim)</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>9. The National Poetry Library</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>10. Getting known</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>11. Joanna Walsh: AUTOBIOLOGY</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>12. S J Fowler klaxon!</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>13. Next week's final online gathering</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>14. Nudge</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">15. PS </span><span style="color: red;">IMPORTANT NEWS!</span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>16. PPS (solution to item 7)</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">______________________________</p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14.52px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">We've had compassion fatigue and now I fear we're in the stage of compassion fatigue fatigue. Meanwhile the war goes on, and on. </span></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14.52px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14.52px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">The most far-reaching aid programme has been, and remains, the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. </span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;">You can donate quickly and easily </span><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a><span style="color: #2b00fe;">. W</span></span></b><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a;">hatever you can, whenever you can.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;">Thank you.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________________</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.52px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">2. This week’s online gathering</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14.52px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Michael Hughes reads Samuel Beckett’s <i>Whoroscope</i></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: small;"><br /></b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-size: small;">James Brophy and William Davies co-editors of <i>Samuel Beckett’s Poetry</i> (CUP)</b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><i style="color: #474747; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></i></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i style="color: #474747; text-align: left;">Samuel Beckett's Poetry</i><span style="color: #474747; text-align: left;"> is the first book-length study of Beckett's complete poetry, designed for students and </span><span style="color: #181817; text-align: left;">scholars of twentieth century poetry and literature, as well as for specialists of Beckett's work.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #474747; text-align: left;"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #474747; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #474747; text-align: left;"></span></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Toby Litt on <i>A Writer’s Diary</i> (published on 1st January 2023 by Galley Beggar Press) <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b></p><div><br /></div><p class="p12" style="font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Natalia Zagxorska-Thomas on 'The Camden Hoard', a collaborative project featuring contributions from Will Eaves, Julian Stannard, Amy McCauley, Gav Clarke, Kevin Boniface and others.</span></b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p13" style="font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Exacting Clam</i> issue 7 launch. Publisher Jacob Smullyan presents the latest n</b><b>umber of this transatlantic quarterly. </b></span></p><p class="p13" style="font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p13" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Christopher Boucher on <i>The Word Party </i>(pre-recorded). </b></span></p><p class="p13" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Corina Bardoff reading from her ‘Food Restrictions’ </b></span></p><p class="p13" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Mike Silverton’s <i>TRIOS</i></b></span></p><p class="p13" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"></p><p class="p13" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Kevin Boniface on the death of HMQ Elizabeth II</b></span></p><p class="p13" style="font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p13" style="font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>This issue also features Glue Factory stalwarts Kevin Boniface (again), Jake Goldsmith, </b><b>Kurt Luchs, Melissa McCarthy, Paolo Pergola and illustrious others.</b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________________</span></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">3. Indie press news</b></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Bluemoose Books</b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">The Hebden Bridge-based indie publisher, founded by Kevin and Hetha Duffy (below), consistently punches above its weight with an absolutely outstanding backlist and great books to come in 2023.</b></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWlQmmA57iLmrFEVdxalU8hKb2hlwAXa1FWdI3SomDFn6ajsHCETpQQfMcv_mF9auIkdDBXoMRxwdx0QV8jJ3nQoYLAiGU75ZLt_dLmrhUU3jAQPgvyQOnK8ywhJx5ECJHDHvuq4LnzuE8GoO2E7w2cmVU5JMuezF6Fywai-4CjhCMeY696X6_uwdVqg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="902" data-original-width="750" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiWlQmmA57iLmrFEVdxalU8hKb2hlwAXa1FWdI3SomDFn6ajsHCETpQQfMcv_mF9auIkdDBXoMRxwdx0QV8jJ3nQoYLAiGU75ZLt_dLmrhUU3jAQPgvyQOnK8ywhJx5ECJHDHvuq4LnzuE8GoO2E7w2cmVU5JMuezF6Fywai-4CjhCMeY696X6_uwdVqg" width="200" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span> Once in a Bluemoose<br /><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>This week we learned that in the past year Bluemoose authors have been translated and published in </b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Italian, </b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Czech, </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Slovakian, </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Arabic, </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Turkish and P</b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">olish. In these dark days that's a cultural beacon. Good work!</b></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Faber and Faber</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>A first mention in the newsletter for this venerable independent publisher, prompted by the announcement this week of their forthcoming re-issue of the American author Emily Holmes Coleman's only novel <i>The Shutter of Snow</i> (1930). </b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Both the author and the book are entirely new to me but a foreword by Claire-Louise Bennett is recommendation enough, and just look at this gorgeous cover, reminiscent of Faber's golden age, when the great Berthold Wolpe was in charge of their design.</b></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipvx4a23IzzOMxZJbkEKzrhTOKtQ9uqzEig3yeNz9VuimA6Ay0-Uo7VrwVFwzn0HN6IFsC6XIOLOqDlLh6n1KX43uCAeKsycpib22iHLndL8avuaehfVV6NN4i3eFkDFZwmSYY6V59tuZQaZg7tP0Hy1cweOurHPOYy4fdet8mUhMtZiFWiJL-s0-mbg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipvx4a23IzzOMxZJbkEKzrhTOKtQ9uqzEig3yeNz9VuimA6Ay0-Uo7VrwVFwzn0HN6IFsC6XIOLOqDlLh6n1KX43uCAeKsycpib22iHLndL8avuaehfVV6NN4i3eFkDFZwmSYY6V59tuZQaZg7tP0Hy1cweOurHPOYy4fdet8mUhMtZiFWiJL-s0-mbg" width="160" /></a></b></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Coleman's Wikipedia entry is worth a look: </b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Coleman">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Coleman</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Described by the publisher as '</b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>a radical dissection of insanity and maternity. Tragic and ecstatic, shocking and hilarious, poetic and unflinching – it is a timeless masterpiece.' </b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">It's published on 2nd February 2023.</b></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Head of Zeus</b></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Queer: LGBTQ Writing from Ancient Times to Yesterday<span style="color: red;"> </span></i></b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">is a superb anthology of LGBTQ writing over two millenia selected by award-winning translator (and Glue Factory mainstay) Frank Wynne. </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">Every home should have a copy.</span></b></p><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">It's out in paperback on December 8th: </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><a href="https://amzn.to/3FDUfDF"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>amzn.to/3FDUfDF</a></span></b><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><b style="background-color: white; color: black; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">'A landmark anthology of queer writing.' - BBC Front Row</span></b></b></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Sagging Meniscus Press</b></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>'Our favourite publisher of the unexpected.' — <i>Seattle Review of Books</i></b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">'Here’s a press with a name to remember. Here’s a press to impress. Here’s a press that takes chances and dances and remembers to put in its false teeth. Here’s a press in which wild cobras wear no bras. Here’s a press in which gods undress.' — Jack Foley</b></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>You want to know more about the name? <a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/about/">https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/about/</a></b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Sagging Meniscus Press publishes nonconformist, aesthetically self-determined literature — books that want to be themselves. </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">More than 80 books make up a very impressive backlist. See them here on the new and bracingly interactive website:</b></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/">https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>A shout out to Jake Goldmsith, author of <i>Neither Weak Nor Obtuse</i>, of which the writer/researcher/broadcaster Tom Shakespeare says:</b></span></p><p><i style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>This wonderful book is like an unblinking conversation with one of the most literary, most honest, most human people you will ever meet. I thank Jake </b></span><b><span style="font-family: courier;">for </span><span style="font-family: courier;">sharing his life with us, and recommend that you take him up on his </span><span style="font-family: courier;">invitation.</span></b></i></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhj8WaJY2jod5NRGxt_aBKjSmTTXArtFYH3GZ58WGLWyRcNwQ2d7uWmI-8ksfrBYZH_UM38qEhT7uI1UKfX5qDntHP1mEhyTY-O2MQPcM6f_9kCyKp6McSPV6DOA54YBVXt25kJRf1oWCLk1Gjm_h6zOyNacGAfV2BT0Ciea2oyVlL_hYjSdy-BsjNsqQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="598" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhj8WaJY2jod5NRGxt_aBKjSmTTXArtFYH3GZ58WGLWyRcNwQ2d7uWmI-8ksfrBYZH_UM38qEhT7uI1UKfX5qDntHP1mEhyTY-O2MQPcM6f_9kCyKp6McSPV6DOA54YBVXt25kJRf1oWCLk1Gjm_h6zOyNacGAfV2BT0Ciea2oyVlL_hYjSdy-BsjNsqQ" width="168" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/neither_weak_nor_obtuse/">https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/neither_weak_nor_obtuse/</a></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>V & Q books</b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_4823514071387745794mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-align: left; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_4823514071387745794mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span>Two Spring 2023 titles to look out for: <em>In the Belly of the Queen</em> by Karosh Taha (translated by Grashina Gabelmann) is 'a kaleidoscopic and formally inventive novel exploring class, race and gender' and <em>A Light Still Burns</em> by Selim Özdoğan, (translated by Ayça Türkoğlu and Katy Derbyshire) is the final instalment in the Anatolian Blues trilogy covering the life of Gül, split between Turkey and Germany. Both are now available to preorder.</span><br /></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_4823514071387745794mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-width: 100%; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_4823514071387745794mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-align: left; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_4823514071387745794mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><h1 style="line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><em>In the Belly of the Queen</em> by Karosh Taha, tr. Grashina Gabelmann</span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_4823514071387745794mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px 9px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="m_4823514071387745794mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top" width="564"><strong><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Publishing April 1st 2023</span></strong><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">'In her kaleidoscopic novel, Karosh Taha expands our ideas of class, race and gender as she loops two stories around an invisible lynchpin: a woman who defies all expectations, a blank canvas for projections from all those around her. Deftly translated by Grashina Gabelmann, the book can be explored from either end, creating two very different narratives.'<br /><br /><strong>Preorder <em>In the Belly of the Queen</em> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://vq-books.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dd564a667856e3bc24708282e6%26id%3D8c2b39130b%26e%3Dd3851384df&source=gmail&ust=1669222675938000&usg=AOvVaw1Nnvfi0LbPSKwjYWEBzoL8" href="https://vq-books.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d564a667856e3bc24708282e6&id=8c2b39130b&e=d3851384df" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">here</a>. </strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_4823514071387745794mcnDividerBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 2px solid rgb(234, 234, 234); min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; min-width: 100%; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_4823514071387745794mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; text-align: left; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_4823514071387745794mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><h1 style="line-height: 32.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><em>A Light Still Burns</em> by Selim Özdoğan, tr. Ayça Türkoğlu and Katy Derbyshire</span></h1></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"></span></p><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: justify; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_4823514071387745794mcnCaptionBottomContent" style="border-collapse: collapse; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_4823514071387745794mcnTextContent" style="color: #202020; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top" width="564"><p style="line-height: 24px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><em>‘A luminous conclusion to a trilogy that has no equal in any language. Through the story of one woman who insists, against the odds, on meeting the world with an open heart, it brings grace and dignity to the many unsung millions whose lives have followed the same zigzagging paths between Turkey and Germany over three generations.’</em> <strong>Maureen Freely, author of <em>Sailing Through Byzantium</em> and translator of Orhan Pamuk</strong><br /><br /><strong>Preorder <em>A Light Still Burns</em> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://vq-books.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dd564a667856e3bc24708282e6%26id%3D3ed8e1d557%26e%3Dd3851384df&source=gmail&ust=1669222675938000&usg=AOvVaw3p6tHuoy_aiOH_tBz0Hvd1" href="https://vq-books.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d564a667856e3bc24708282e6&id=3ed8e1d557&e=d3851384df" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">here</a>. Find out more about <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://vq-books.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dd564a667856e3bc24708282e6%26id%3D4147744a58%26e%3Dd3851384df&source=gmail&ust=1669222675938000&usg=AOvVaw0p-6X_Qmd6esrG_7JPfVR_" href="https://vq-books.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d564a667856e3bc24708282e6&id=4147744a58&e=d3851384df" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><em>The Blacksmith's Daughter</em></a> and <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://vq-books.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dd564a667856e3bc24708282e6%26id%3Ddeb88aa117%26e%3Dd3851384df&source=gmail&ust=1669222675938000&usg=AOvVaw2ImoAZxfir_ghCMj0JPCRA" href="https://vq-books.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=d564a667856e3bc24708282e6&id=deb88aa117&e=d3851384df" style="color: #007c89; font-weight: normal;" target="_blank"><em>52 Factory Lane</em></a>.</strong></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________________</span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>4. The Literature Clock</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; white-space: pre-wrap;">If you know Christian Marclay's astonishing masterpiece </span><i style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Clock</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a 24-hour long </span><a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/christian-marclay-clock" style="font-family: courier; white-space: pre-wrap;">film installation </a><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; white-space: pre-wrap;"> made up of thousands of movie clips showing clocks that give the exact time of the day or night the viewer is watching, you'll probably know what to expect with this, the literary equivalent. But be warned this is a very deep rabbit-hole: </span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/kpLAImf5Fr" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com</b></span></a></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________________</span></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">5. Auden on the BBC</b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>My thanks to Edward Mendelson, Auden scholar <i>non pareil</i>, for this heads up. BBC Radio 3 recently broadcast a dramatised reading of Auden's poem <i>The Age of Anxiety</i>, which can be heard here (for the next month or so): </b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fswl">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001fswl</a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">'Auden’s long poem <i>The Age of Anxiety</i> was written at the peak of his powers, and is claimed by many as his masterpiece. It contains passages of striking beauty, as powerful as anything he wrote. It is written in the form of a strange verse-drama: four characters, all single, lonely and adrift, spend an evening together, as Auden takes them on a fantastic voyage into memory and myth, in search of a way to solve the problems which have created this age of anxiety, the age in which we all now live.'</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">AUDEN ..... Julian Bleach</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">QUANT ..... Jonjo O'Neill</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">MALIN ..... John Light</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">ROSETTA ..... Genevieve Gaunt</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">EMBLE ..... Luke Thallon</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Sound Design by Jon Nicholls</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Produced and Directed by Fiona McAlpine</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">An Allegra Production for BBC Radio 3</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________________</span></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">6. gorse 11 goes to print</b></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><b>Editor Susan Tomaselli announced this week that the long-awaited 11th issue of <i>gorse</i> journal has gone to print and will be on sale soon, so form a disorderly queue </b></span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://gorse.ie/shop/">here.</a> It's bound to sell out very quickly.</b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjs4qpt0NQVnTSz1zTZpLs0BRdNnn81amNhMu3h3y784vscU-s_ajcsOfqXYchfPZxS5nX5HGwrrr_MajznRfnCeiAsiYgfPf8AhZC28YdhLly5eFEpJzYs4VK8Y9LKQvBPkIQwAPQShDUQ1m5IRXjAeNGZDDuet-TKdCQmEzqq4VrC26kkoQ-dlY4byQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="1256" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjs4qpt0NQVnTSz1zTZpLs0BRdNnn81amNhMu3h3y784vscU-s_ajcsOfqXYchfPZxS5nX5HGwrrr_MajznRfnCeiAsiYgfPf8AhZC28YdhLly5eFEpJzYs4VK8Y9LKQvBPkIQwAPQShDUQ1m5IRXjAeNGZDDuet-TKdCQmEzqq4VrC26kkoQ-dlY4byQ" width="296" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;"><b>I used to have a regular gig writing about all things indie for <i>The Idler </i>magazine, a London-based bi-monthly publication that seems to be aimed at folk with large disposable incomes. Larger than mine, at any rate. This is what I said in </b></span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Issue 57 (Jan/Feb 2018):</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>'I can’t think of a better literary magazine than gorse – it combines assured editorial judgement with startlingly original content.' </b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>It does. Have a look at some of the </b></span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://gorse.ie/web-only/">web-only features</a></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________________</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">7. Elena Addomine</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Our guest on last Sunday's online gathering, Elena is the New York-based president of OpLePo, the Italian equivalent of the French OuLiPo movement. She has kindly sent the following example of her work, an example of what she calls <b>Homographic Translation. </b>Those of you in the audience last week will know what to do. The solution is at the end of this newsletter... </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>Mi son salite</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>idee,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>pene:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>moti,<span> </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>onde di catene</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>e di "se ..."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>Eh,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>è come se</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>la natalità</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>(nido?)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>mi negassi,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>son certa,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>in me.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">________________________________</span></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">8. <i>The Idler</i> (passim)</span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">What's that you say? You didn't know about my two-year stint as <i>The Idler</i>'s indie reviewer? Here's a quick summary of the features, some of which I suspect can be found online, if you're interested.</b></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Press gang.</b> On Tramp Press (July/August 2017)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Found in translation.</b> On Pereine Press (Issue 55 September/October 2017)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ridicule is nothing to be scared of</b>. On Peter Owen Publishing (Issue 56 November/December 2017)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Pressing matters. </b>On Little Island Press & <i>gorse </i>magazine (Issue 57 January/February 2018)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Stream of consciousness.</b> On The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2018<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i> </i>(Issue 58 March/April 2018)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Mag men.</b> On Little Magazines, past and present (Issue 59 May/June 2018)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b></b><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>We're all doomed. Not.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b> On Will Self and the state of things (Issue 60 July/August 2018)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Fight the power. </b>On Galley Beggar Press vs. W. H. Smith<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Issue 61 September/October 2018)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b></b><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Go Gentle.</b> On Spitalfields Life & Henningham Family Press (Issue 62 November/December 2018)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>To the end of the night. </b>On<b> </b>Guillemot Press & <i>Winter Papers</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Issue 63 January/February 2019)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>On the case </b>On bookshelves<b> </b>& Spring 2019 highlights (Issue 64 March/April 2019)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>News from Norwich </b>On<b> </b>The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2019 & Boiler House Press (Issue 65 May/June 2019)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Lots of fun at Finneganight </b>On <i>Finnegans Wake </i>& <i>The St Arbuc Encyclopaedia </i>(Issue 66 July/August 2019)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Paper weight </b>On the costs of independent publishing (Issue 67 September/October 2019)</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px;"><i></i></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________________</span></p><p><span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>9. National Poetry Library</b></span></span></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-6gpygo r-1fz3rvf" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px 12px 12px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-14gqq1x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">Tucked away in the top left hand corner of the Royal Festival Hall, the National Poetry Library is a wonderful cultural asset, run by Chris McCabe and his colleagues.
The NPL is now inviting proposals for their 2023-24 Special Edition programme, seeking proposals for events from a broad range of organisers, poets and poetry enthusiasts.
The deadline for applications is 5pm Fri 6 Jan 2023 - more info here: </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" dir="ltr" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><a href="https://bit.ly/3ONhUE5"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>bit.ly/3ONhUE5</a></span></span></div></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________________</span></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">10. Getting known</span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span>Startled to learn this week that I'm among those writers nominated for something called <a href="http://www.pushcartprize.com/index.html">The Pushcart Prize</a> for one essay ('Confession') in <i>Multiple Joyce</i> my collection of 100 essays about the author of <i>Ulysses. </i>Startled and delighted, because I find myself in such wonderful company: </span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWMn-RQYEtX6GErlsx6XEv-RdpkG3jPDm82N5qUFu6EuRwxMuxr5jJpnZPDJYUY8QEI22QdDmtyftiWH8FCuOu8aAmMWM-PTliqrwEMnFMM2gF8WC0YHxcMaIhwhmr2s6CcZz60QXC52IOgYbIycq1K16p3Sqys1fwfTkbCqpwKTBCkol1_k58v8TdzQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1186" data-original-width="1150" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWMn-RQYEtX6GErlsx6XEv-RdpkG3jPDm82N5qUFu6EuRwxMuxr5jJpnZPDJYUY8QEI22QdDmtyftiWH8FCuOu8aAmMWM-PTliqrwEMnFMM2gF8WC0YHxcMaIhwhmr2s6CcZz60QXC52IOgYbIycq1K16p3Sqys1fwfTkbCqpwKTBCkol1_k58v8TdzQ" width="233" /></a></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></b></div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span>We share a publisher, of course, who has been good enough to make the nominations. I'm also delighted to learn that some <i>Exacting Clam</i> authors have also been nominated, including Glue Factory regular Julian Stannard and roving reporter Melissa McCarthy, as well as past contributors Kurth Luchs and Thomas Walton Congratulations to all. I feel a movement is forming...</span></b><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIOB9kc3fEpA1T2iRUB8cO8gC4q9zOIJEYBmAu9h8MHk516UD-wvgwR1fDjohUekvBAFeJkEKLmM9m1QnkytKuA8H2kg3xcrV-H6kIMrIQcbpV0BV5Ur9tDv8S-BcrZ6GUfu7vh24lH3qQd2JtZXVL16wOPG__VmrEVEQiNa__EnvB88pOiXU3EOjVqQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="996" data-original-width="778" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIOB9kc3fEpA1T2iRUB8cO8gC4q9zOIJEYBmAu9h8MHk516UD-wvgwR1fDjohUekvBAFeJkEKLmM9m1QnkytKuA8H2kg3xcrV-H6kIMrIQcbpV0BV5Ur9tDv8S-BcrZ6GUfu7vh24lH3qQd2JtZXVL16wOPG__VmrEVEQiNa__EnvB88pOiXU3EOjVqQ" width="187" /></a></span></b></div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span><br />The Pushcart Prize is entirely new to me but is, on the face of it, a Very Good Thing and clearly more covetable than (e.g.) the Wyndham-Campbell. But that's another story.</span></b><p></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;"> ______________________________</span></span></b></span></b></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">11. Joanna Walsh: AUTOBIOLOGY</b></p><p><b style="color: red;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">This digitally-generated novel is now available to buy. It transforms the author's explorations in autofiction into a computer consciousness that reconstructs "her" and calls into question the very nature of writing & self.</span></span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTQn2Hy1HHQxx0w3Zp2HEg4zD1Te-Jok4PpMdQBhk4jCwL_jyNL0Wga8OXfcwfMh2UhpC4SE0GOAieDCWaSDrRRkG2NBkXzgE_0Kg5d0Fzb55oOckPqtU8IvAgWVeTk_o5V1efp8e98Ko5oG-mmLspnnAELdFrMEI9an5YTxQw-PEi1AuqO3BXI9QauA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="1064" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTQn2Hy1HHQxx0w3Zp2HEg4zD1Te-Jok4PpMdQBhk4jCwL_jyNL0Wga8OXfcwfMh2UhpC4SE0GOAieDCWaSDrRRkG2NBkXzgE_0Kg5d0Fzb55oOckPqtU8IvAgWVeTk_o5V1efp8e98Ko5oG-mmLspnnAELdFrMEI9an5YTxQw-PEi1AuqO3BXI9QauA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>From the website:</b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>“The Labour of Reading is at the heart of AUTOBIOLOGY. Readership as authorship, authorship as readership – and all of it consequently as thinkership. Questions on ‘work’ and ‘value’ abound. Who owns language? What is a self in words? What is writing in the age of artificial intelligence? Is narrativising a way of forcing readers to cease questioning? What happens in the gaps between language and sense, and are those infinite spaces where the value of ‘literature’ is to be found?” </b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> –Christodoulos Makris, author of THIS IS NO LONGER ENTERTAINMENTY</b></span></span></p><p><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/3Zvdnl06sG" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">http://</span>insidethecastle.org/autobiology/</a></span></b></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"></b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;"> ______________________________</span></span></b></span></b></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">12. S J Fowler klaxon</b></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", "new york", times, serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>last event of the year, if you happen to be free next Tuesday evening, Dec 6th, we will be celebrating the great Stephen Watts down in Kingston. Please come by, and / or share with friends who might be interested if you don't mind. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.writerskingston.com/watts/&source=gmail&ust=1670098255394000&usg=AOvVaw0DdTERDuOHoeEdu-JNh09U" href="https://www.writerskingston.com/watts/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>writerskingston.com/watts/</a></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Also a fun recent collaboration with viola master benedict taylor <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DWCOngGCqIZs&source=gmail&ust=1670098255394000&usg=AOvVaw1HDTrXbLDAmUTmCjE-VgaM" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCOngGCqIZs" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.<wbr></wbr>com/watch?v=WCOngGCqIZs</a></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Some letterpress work in the cotswolds <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DRMczVk9nAI4&source=gmail&ust=1670098255394000&usg=AOvVaw298o2h4tt2JJiqRUTWs_0N" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMczVk9nAI4" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.<wbr></wbr>com/watch?v=RMczVk9nAI4</a></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>A new babs <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DC-sB1AoL9rQ&source=gmail&ust=1670098255394000&usg=AOvVaw0p9VJ_UIiurNG2FnY-Fg1K" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-sB1AoL9rQ" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/<wbr></wbr>watch?v=C-sB1AoL9rQ</a></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Two lovely new limited edition collaborations from Joan <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://joanpublishing.org/Project-Are-You-Keeping-Cardboard&source=gmail&ust=1670098255394000&usg=AOvVaw3Uh8h8J6NP6p9WJee5s4F7" href="https://joanpublishing.org/Project-Are-You-Keeping-Cardboard" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://joanpublishing.<wbr></wbr>org/Project-Are-You-Keeping-<wbr></wbr>Cardboard</a> </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>and Egidija Ciricaite <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.egidija.com/2022%2520ORIGINAL.html&source=gmail&ust=1670098255394000&usg=AOvVaw1GwM_n65z6EIohiKcv3kX6" href="http://www.egidija.com/2022%20ORIGINAL.html" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">http://www.egidija.<wbr></wbr>com/2022%20ORIGINAL.html</a></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: red;"></b></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>And something fun next Jan 20th <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/talks-and-conversations-friday-lates-tour-and-poetry-readings-writers-kingston-20-01-2023&source=gmail&ust=1670098255394000&usg=AOvVaw35FPNn7VlTcmULQV6FyY4M" href="https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/talks-and-conversations-friday-lates-tour-and-poetry-readings-writers-kingston-20-01-2023" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.<wbr></wbr>nationalgallery.org.uk/events/<wbr></wbr>talks-and-conversations-<wbr></wbr>friday-lates-tour-and-poetry-<wbr></wbr>readings-writers-kingston-20-<wbr></wbr>01-2023</a></b></span></div><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"></b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span><b><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400;"> ______________________________</span></span></b></span></b></p><p><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">13. Next week's online gathering</b></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>The final Glue Factory on Sunday 11th December will re-visit highlights from the past year as requested by members of the audience.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">It's an epic two-hour programme (with an interval, you'll be relieved to hear), and I hope you can join me to share highlights from the past year in the company of </span></b></span></span><span class="s1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; text-align: justify;"><b>Sara Baume, Kevin Boniface, Marie-Elsa Bragg, Ray Davis, </b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; text-align: justify;">Wendy Erskine, Jake Goldsmith, Rónán Hession, Michael Horden, </b><span class="s1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; text-align: justify;"><b>Michael Hughes, Laura Hopkins, Alex Kapila</b></span><span class="s2" style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; text-align: justify;"><b>, </b></span><span class="s1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; text-align: justify;"><b>Penny McCarthy,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; text-align: justify;">Paige Niblet, Julian Stannard, Guillermo Stitch, Philip Terry,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; text-align: justify;">Aea Varfis van Warmelo, Tony White and many others. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; text-align: justify;">Plus music from Wet Leg, Diana Ross and Lionel Jeffries.</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;">______________________________</span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><br /></b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small; text-align: left;">14. Nudge</b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">If you get this newsletter or join any of our online gatherings and enjoy either I do hope you'll make a donation, however small, however large, to this important cause, or local equivalent, whether in cash or kind. Whatever you can afford.</span></b></p><p><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><b>https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/</b></a></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>And did you know that you can also donate your </b></span><b style="font-family: courier;">Tesco Clubcard vouchers to help support the good work of the Trust?</b></span></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">From 28 November until 3 December, Tesco are matching all Clubcard vouchers donated. Every donation will help the Trussell Trust continue to support people who are facing hardship this winter</b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________________</span></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">PS</span> Next Sunday's final online gathering will, for a change, be a fundraiser for The Barbellion Prize. </b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">This week I've been contacting directly and separately all the literary communities I know - publishers, agents, authors, fellow literary hacks - and I hope by the end of the series we'll have secured the future of this important prize for at least another two years. The founder Jake Goldsmith is doing a fantastic job but this prize won't survive without our support, which is needed urgently. </b></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>I'd like to invite everyone joining the audience for this final show to donate <span style="color: red;">twenty pounds</span> to the prize (this is easily done online within a matter of seconds). I know times are hard, so any donation is very welcome, however small. It will make an enormous difference. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>And we'll go out with a bang after Christmas with our third annual pantomime. This will be the last-ever performance by the Carthorse Orchestra Players and there will be full details in next week's newsletter. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________________</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">PPS</span> The English version of the Italian poem by Elena Addomine is as follows: </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>My son's a lite.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>I deepen emotion,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>dedicate need.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>I see:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>he comes elan</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>at a litany!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>Do mine,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>gassy son,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>certain me.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier;">From: '</span><span style="font-family: courier;">Forme for me - Traduzioni omografiche' by </span><span style="font-family: courier;">Elena Addomine</span><span style="font-family: courier;">, Biblioteca Oplepiana n.7</span></span></p><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p><br /></p></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-46774209634382810682022-11-27T09:04:00.000+00:002022-11-27T09:04:28.462+00:00Newsletter 60<div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">The author Toby Litt was arrested this week.</b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">Read about what he did and why he did it <a href="https://writersrebel.com/what-is-the-price-of-experience/">here.</a></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">If he's at liberty to do so, Toby will join our live </b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">gathering next Sunday (4th December) </b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">to talk about<i> </i></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><i>A Writer's Diary,</i> to be published on 1st January </b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">2023 by Galley Beggar Press. </b></div><div><br /></div><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">Newsletter contents</b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></p><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. This week’s online gathering </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> And Other Stories</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> CB editions</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Paper Visual Art</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>4. Joanna Walsh live in Paris</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>5. On Frank Ramsey</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>6. I Am Curious, Gialli</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">7. Three prizewinners!</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>8. The Peirine Stevns Translation Prize 2023</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>9. Ineluctable modality of the risible </b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>10. </b><b>Next week's online gathering</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>11. Nudge</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>12. PS</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>13. PPS</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">This is always on the first item on the weekly newsletter (which also ends with an appeal for donations) But please don't skip to the next item.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="s1" style="color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none;"> T</span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none;">he conflict in Ukraine continues, and horribly. By the end of the year it will have been a stain on history for 300 days. This is hard to imagine. The most far-reaching aid programme has been, and remains, the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. </span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none;">You can donate quickly and easily </span><span><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a><span style="color: #2b00fe;">, </span></span></span></b><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a;">whatever you can, whenever you can.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;">Thank you.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">2. This week’s online gathering</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />The first part of the programme has an Italian theme, with Cristina Viti on her translation os </b></span><span class="s2" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><b>Pasolini’s <i>La rabbia / Anger </i></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span><span style="white-space: pre;">m</span></span><span>arking the centenary of Pasolini’s birth. The President of OpLePo, Elena Addomine, joins us from New York to share some of her '</span></b><b style="background-color: transparent;">homographic translations' and a reading of </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><b>“Chimera”, an Anglo-Italian literary mosaicism connecting sonnets by Shakespeare and Dante.</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Paolo Pergola will introduce his fellow author Paolo Albani who will deliver his </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Esercizi di stile di lettura, </i><b>a reading of the following two-line poem in 11 different ways.</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Italian original<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> English t</span>ranslation</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Meriggiare pallido e assorto<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To rest at noon, pale and thoughtful</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>presso un rovento muro d'orto<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>near a blazing orchard wall</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The styles Paolo Albani uses are (in this order):</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Standard reading</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Reading at a fruit and vegetables market in Naples</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Reading during a kidnapping attempt</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Reading forward and backwards (this could be cut)</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Reading at a Futurists meeting</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Reading<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>at a Gregorian mass</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Reading as a verdict at a tribunal</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Reading during a revolutionary parade</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Reading when giving directions</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10. Reading at an aristocratic dinner</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>11. Reading in a silent movie</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b>Following which Paolo Pergola will read some of his own Shakespearean deconstructions, with a nod to <i>Hamlet</i>.</b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>In the second part it's Apostasy Now - three former members of the Jehovah's Witnesses share thoughts on their escape from the clutches of this weird evangelical cult and the consolations of literature. </b></span><b>Joining me will be authors </b><b>Ali Millar<span class="Apple-converted-space"> and </span></b><b>Ariel Anderssen</b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>And Other Stories</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span>The publisher Michael Watson has sent the And Other Stories <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.andotherstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AOS_Cat_A5_April-2023-to-Aug-2023_UK-and-US_digital-_-FINAL.pdf&source=gmail&ust=1668598366986000&usg=AOvVaw1VbdmOVGJe9JxbLPAAJPLM" href="https://www.andotherstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AOS_Cat_A5_April-2023-to-Aug-2023_UK-and-US_digital-_-FINAL.pdf" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank" title="https://www.andotherstories.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/AOS_Cat_A5_April-2023-to-Aug-2023_UK-and-US_digital-_-FINAL.pdf">catalogue</a> for the upcoming Spring/Summer season, with works ranging from a memoir by Xiu Xiu founding member Jamie Stewart to the latest novel from Johanna Hedva; from a translation of a serial-novel-written-as-blog-<wbr></wbr>posts-during-the-invasion-of-<wbr></wbr>Iraq to a collection of stories by an Italian master.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span>He highlights two of next year’s titles, <i>Ten Planets</i> by Yuri Herrera (February) and <i>Your Love Is Not Good</i> by Johanna Hedva (May):</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span> </span></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li style="color: black; margin: 0cm;"><span><i>Ten Planets</i> is 'a rich and genre-defying collection, blending the best of science fiction, noir and the philosophical parables of Calvino and Borges.' </span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span> </span></span></p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li style="color: black; margin: 0cm;"><span><i>Your Love Is Not Good</i> is 'smart, propulsive, and challenging. Johanna Hedva's prose is phenomenal, practically crackling with energy on the page. Grappling with identity, activism, artistic endeavour and more, <i>Your Love Is Not Good</i> is that amazing blend of critical intelligence and brilliant narrative.'</span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0cm;"><span style="color: black;"><span>Here are links to the past year's <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.andotherstories.org/catalogues/&source=gmail&ust=1668598366986000&usg=AOvVaw0r5LeIeSMeGaqxrIIOVjxw" href="https://www.andotherstories.org/catalogues/" style="color: #0563c1;" target="_blank" title="https://www.andotherstories.org/catalogues/">catalogues</a> from this outstanding indie press. Get stuck in!</span></span></p><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><span><span><span><span><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="color: #888888; font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin: 0cm;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><b>Penhaligon Press: Balchin reissues in 2023</b></p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>My friend Derek Collett is single-handedly reviving the fortunes of the author Nigel Balchin (1908-1970). I've just received the latest in his beautifully designed and edited series of re-issues: <i>In the Absence of Mrs Petersen, </i>originally published in 1966. Praised by Anthony Burgess ('superb entertainment'), it's new to me, and comes from late in the author's career.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><div>There will be three more Balchin titles coming out next year:</div><div><br /></div><div>Spring 2023 - <i>Sundry Creditors</i> (a factory novel with a proto-Angry Young Man as one of the principal characters).</div><div><br /></div><div>Summer 2023 - <i>Mine Own Executioner</i> (a London psycho-analyst tries to prevent a former Spitfire pilot from murdering his wife following his brutal treatment at the hands of the Japanese in WWII)</div><div><br /></div><div>Autumn 2023 - <i>The Fall of the Sparrow </i>(the case history of Jason Pellew, a loveable charmer who distinguishes himself as a cloak-and-dagger boy in WWII but drifts into petty crime afterwards)</div></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Look out for all of these. Balchin is a wonderful writer and in Derek Collett has found the ideal publisher. His Balchin biography </b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/His-Own-Executioner-Nigel-Balchin/dp/1781323917"><i>His Own Executioner</i></a></b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><i> </i>is recommended</b></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">CB editions</b></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #505050;" /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050;">A snapshot history of CBe, written in instalments over the years, is downloadable (pdf) from the </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cbeditions.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D28a9945e963c01505484df33d%26id%3Df331e59ad8%26e%3Dc652d8e5e0&source=gmail&ust=1668597948196000&usg=AOvVaw0x-q1sFgkQNbzrKqFGb3hG" href="https://cbeditions.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a9945e963c01505484df33d&id=f331e59ad8&e=c652d8e5e0" style="background-color: white; color: #336699;" target="_blank">‘About & News’ page</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050;"> of the publisher's website.</span></b></span></div><span><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050;"> </span></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #505050;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #505050;">Also available from the website </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cbeditions.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D28a9945e963c01505484df33d%26id%3De7e1092739%26e%3Dc652d8e5e0&source=gmail&ust=1668597948196000&usg=AOvVaw3zPyqlSZxUy1_GKZBIcLnY" href="https://cbeditions.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a9945e963c01505484df33d&id=e7e1092739&e=c652d8e5e0" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank">home page</a><span style="color: #505050;">, not one but two Season Tickets. The original is still there, 12 books for £75, free delivery. There’s now a 6-books-for-£40 option as well. If you're wondering what to give X or Y for Christmas, here is your answer. </span></div></span></b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="tribe-event-date-start" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="tribe-event-date-start" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="tribe-event-date-start" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="color: red;">4. Joanna Walsh in Paris</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="tribe-event-date-start" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="tribe-event-date-start" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><b>My Life as a Godard Movie</b></i></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="tribe-event-date-start" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="tribe-event-date-start" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></p><h4 style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #fcfcfc; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: courier; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 26px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Experience Jean-Luc Godard through the eyes of author Joanna Walsh as she discusses Paris, art, youth, beauty, and cinema with Summer Brennan.</h4><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span class="tribe-event-date-start" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Tuesday 6th December f</span><span face="Georgia, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #444444;">rom 7:30pm to 8:30pm</span><span class="tribe-event-time" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span class="tribe-event-time" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(assume this is Paris time)</span></b></p><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="tribe-events-cost" face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #fcfcfc; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="tribe-events-cost" face=""Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #fcfcfc; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Free (and it's a hybrid event so open to join online, but you have to register in advance here:</b></span></span></div><div><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="goog_1601508535"><br /></a></span></span></div><div><span face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/walsh22/"><b>https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/walsh2</b></a></span></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>5. On Frank Ramsey</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>For any of you who would like to know more about Frank Ramsey, the young genius who featured on last week's programme marking the centenary of the English publication of Wittgenstein's <i>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus</i> (which Ramsey translated) here is a </b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FllJfUcNM3Y">BBC radio documentary</a> </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">from 1978.</b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">I lamented the fact that there was no biography, just a memoir by his sister. Thanks to Callum McCarthy for making the very good point that few if any biographers would be up to the task of understanding Ramsey's work. So perhaps a fetschrift of some kind is overdue, one to which experts in (e.g,) economics and cognitive psychology and philosophy and statitsics etc might contribute. Any takers? </b></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>6. I Am Curious, Gialli</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>David Spittle appeared on the Glue Factory a few weeks ago, as a guest of Vik Shirley, speaking about the Italian film genre known as 'Gialli' (i.e. Yellow). A handful of directorsd and films aside this was all new to me, and to many audience members who asked for more detail</b></span></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">So David has kindly provided a filmography (below) as well as suggested further reading and notes on culktural antecedents. Too much to include in the newsletter but if you'd like to now more drop me a line and I can send you the very interesting and useful file.</b></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Gialli filmography</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Mario Bava and Luigi Bazzoni</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>The Girl Who Knew Too Much</i> (Bava, 1963)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>The Possessed</i> (Luigi Bazzoni,1965)</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Blood and Black Lace</i> (Bava, 1964)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Danger: Diabolik</i> (Bava,1968)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>The Fifth Cord</i> (Bazzoni, 1971)</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Lisa and the Devil</i> (Bava, 1974)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Footprints on the Moon</i> (Bazzoni, 1975)</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Lucio Fulci</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b><i>Lizard in a Woman’s Skin </i>(1971)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Don’t Torture a Duckling </i>(1972)</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Sergio Martino</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b><i>The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh </i>(1971)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b><i>The Case of the Scorpion’s Tale </i>(1971)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>All the Colours of the Dark </i>(1972)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key </i>(1972)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Suspicious Death of a Minor </i>(1975)</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Dario Argento</b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>The Bird with the Crystal Plumage </i>(1970)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Cat o’ Nine Tails </i>(1971)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Four Flies on Grey Velvet </i>(1972)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Deep Red </i>(1975)</span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>Tenebrae </i>(1982)</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Ricarrdo Freda</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Double Face </i>(1969)</span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Murder Obsession </i>(1981)</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Guilio Questi</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Death Laid an Egg </i>(1968)</span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Emilio Paolo Miraglia<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>The Night Evelyn Came out of the Grave </i>(1971)</span></p><p class="p7" style="background-color: white; color: #18191a; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>The Red Queen Kills Seven Times </i>(1972)</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Joe D’Amato</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Death Smiles on a Murderer </i>(1973)</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p8" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Modern Gialli / Films influenced by Giallo</b></span></p><p class="p8" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>(a select few - there are LOADS)</b></span></p><p class="p9" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"></span><br /></p><p class="p9" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none; text-decoration-line: underline;"></span><br /></p><p class="p10" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i> Irma Vep</i> (Olivier Assayas, 1996)</span></p><p class="p10" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p10" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p10" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p10" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFAsHWTs5qzTzVDbH6XWy3fZ7ILDkzUqAisj7QguvyWe6FXFjKzFX9laKbE94uyx8s8uGnZL1hxm5_Nrw__iPy9yyrlZrpgryi3ukGoHkRcFF2AeUk31kF6HShg7AgKzG3Kq_LaczThPv3cN4GxXXEk7MP7c8BxW0dA2-X_ncsgZEoOtP9VRaRnz_6ww" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="277" data-original-width="182" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgFAsHWTs5qzTzVDbH6XWy3fZ7ILDkzUqAisj7QguvyWe6FXFjKzFX9laKbE94uyx8s8uGnZL1hxm5_Nrw__iPy9yyrlZrpgryi3ukGoHkRcFF2AeUk31kF6HShg7AgKzG3Kq_LaczThPv3cN4GxXXEk7MP7c8BxW0dA2-X_ncsgZEoOtP9VRaRnz_6ww" width="158" /></a></span></div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="p11" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 54px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Brand upon the Brain </i>(Guy Maddin, 2006)</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Peter Strickland</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></span></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i> Berberian Sound Studio</i> (2012)</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Duke of Burgundy </i>(2014)</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Flux Gourmet </i>(2022)</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-indent: 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i> Knife + Heart</i> (Yann Gonzalez, 2018)</span></p><p class="p12" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><i>The Wild Boys</i> (Betrand Mandico, 2017)</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>After Blue (Betrand Mandico, 2021)</span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Helene Cattat & Bruno Forzani</b></span></p><p class="p4" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Amer</i> (2009)</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears </i>(2013)</span></p><p class="p3" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><i>Let The Corpses Tan </i>(2017)</span></p><p class="p12" style="font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36px; min-height: 15px;"><i>Red Nights</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>(Laurent Courtiaud and Julien Carbon, 2010)<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p13" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 5px; min-height: 15px; text-indent: 36px;"><i>Piercing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>(Nicolas Pesce, 2018)<span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Thanks David - something to enjoy this winter....</span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>7. 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border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@writing_ie</a></span></div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"> was open to single stories which have been published either in collections or magazines.</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"> The 2022 winner (announced last week) is Nuala O’Connor </span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/NualaNiC" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@NualaNiC</a></span></div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"> for 'This Small Giddy Life'. Glue Factory audiences will know Nuala as the author of NORA, a wonderful novel about James Joyce's other half. Congratulations Nuala!<br /></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__eeuatukk63o" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__eeuatukk63o" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__eeuatukk63o" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; 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-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-1dbjc4n r-1loqt21 r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l" href="https://twitter.com/WarwickPrizeWiT" role="link" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; 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box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">Warwick Prize for Women in Translation</span></span></span></div><span style="border-color: black; border-image: initial; display: inline-flex; font-stretch: normal;"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-xoduu5 r-18u37iz r-1q142lx r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="auto" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; 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-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1s2bzr4" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 12px 0px 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__ouxga4lmp7" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">Also announced last week, the joint winners of the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2022:</span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__ouxga4lmp7" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"> </span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__ouxga4lmp7" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><i>Osebol</i></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"> by Marit Kapla, translated from Swedish by Peter Graves </span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__ouxga4lmp7" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><i>Tomb of Sand</i></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"> by Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi by </span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><span style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Daisy Rockwell</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Times;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;">I'm very keen to read the latter. The former, of course, featured on the Glue Factory when the author joined poet Caroline Clarke for a discussion about verbatim writing. <i>Osebol</i> is among my favourite non-fiction books of the year. An immersive masterpiece<b>.</b></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>7. The Peirine Stevns Translation Prize 2023</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The Peirene Stevns Translation Prize 2023 is now open. This year the prize is aimed at emerging translators from German to English. Entrants are invited to translate a sample from <i>Ein simpler Eingriff</i> by Swiss writer Yael Inokai (Carl Hanser Verlag, 2022) – a haunting novel following a young nurse working in a psychiatric unit as she loses her faith in the medical establishment. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The prize winner receives a £3850 commission to translate <i>Ein simpler Eingriff</i> (to be published by Peirene Press in 2024), a translation retreat in an 18th century mill house in the foothills of the French Pyrenees, and a translation mentorship with acclaimed literary translator Jamie Bulloch. </span></div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Established in 2018 with the generous support of Martha Stevns to provide opportunities for emerging translators, the prize is open to any translator over the age of 18 who has not yet published a full length literary translation. For full entry instructions, prize details and eligibility guidelines click here. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Please address any queries to</span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; padding-top: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-3674747279603160157mcnTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_-3674747279603160157mcnTextContent" style="color: #757575; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 18px 9px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #3c454e; font-family: courier;"><b><a href="mailto:submissions@peirenepress.com" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank">submissions@peirenepress.com</a></b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-3674747279603160157mcnDividerBlock" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small; min-width: 100%; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td style="margin: 0px; min-width: 100%; padding: 18px;"></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">8.</span> </b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small; text-indent: 36px;">Ineluctable modality of the risible</b></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Still stumped for last-minute gift ideas? </b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Published in Dublin on (Bloomsday) this year, </b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><i>Multiple Joyce: 100 short essays about James Joyce's cultural legacy</i></b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"> is the only book about James Joyce's cultural legacy you're likely to need to give this year. Or to own.</b></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLbG40OZtfSKXGn41LkaxxR42mMyEn3_e2-H2ZgqUYk3Y7fsiDARDWj2BBJR5QCbdihGQEXtem2Y4b6J8fQnuhsOjlOjsARs0yMD6k1QiuCqUoTvw45PpMx-3u_1r63U8icHAwXHJajPtx4GVdhFW9LMKIUVZAvYLtGtQU0rTdJrbSq1_473FwtJlgvw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLbG40OZtfSKXGn41LkaxxR42mMyEn3_e2-H2ZgqUYk3Y7fsiDARDWj2BBJR5QCbdihGQEXtem2Y4b6J8fQnuhsOjlOjsARs0yMD6k1QiuCqUoTvw45PpMx-3u_1r63U8icHAwXHJajPtx4GVdhFW9LMKIUVZAvYLtGtQU0rTdJrbSq1_473FwtJlgvw" width="164" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Fill yer boots (and read some extracts):</b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="goog_1347812972"><br /></a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/">https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/</a></span></b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>10. Next week's online gathering</b></span></span></div><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></b></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; text-align: justify;">The last book-length study of Samuel Beckett's poetry appeared in 1970. After half a century the second is about to be published by Cambridge University Press. <i>Samuel Beckett’s Poetry</i> is a collection of essays edited by </b><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b>James Brophy and William Davies, and they will both be joining us to talk about the book, and the man, and the poetry</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #474747; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #474747; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">‘The editors and a distinguished team of contributors have produced a superb collection that leaves no poetic allusion</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #474747; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">unanalyzed. This book will be a classic of Beckett criticism. Here is scholarship </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">taken to a high degree, adding contexts</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">and glosses to Sean Lawlor’s and John Pilling’s pioneering work. Everyone interested in Beckett will need to read this</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: white; color: #474747; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;">engrossing book on the poetry and rediscover Beckett the poet.’</span><span class="s1" style="color: #474747; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><p class="p4" style="color: #474747; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p6" style="color: #474747; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>- </span><span class="s3" style="background-color: white; font-kerning: none;">Jean-Michel Rabaté, University of Pennsylvani</span></p><p class="p9" style="background-color: white; color: #181817; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p10" style="background-color: white; color: #181817; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: transparent;">Toby Litt will join us to discuss <i>A Writer’s Diary</i> (following his appearance on The Glue Factory in January to launch this superb long-form writing project)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></p><p class="p16" style="color: black; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></p><p class="p15" style="color: black; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b>And the launch of <i>Exacting Clam</i> issue 7. Publisher Jacob Smullyan and editor Guillermo Stitch present the latest edition of</b><b> this transatlantic quarterly featuring (among illustrious others) Glue Factory stalwarts Kevin Boniface, Jake Goldsmith, </b><b>Kurt Luchs, Melissa McCarthy Paolo Pergola and Paul Stanbridge.</b></p><p class="p16" style="color: black; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px; text-align: justify;"><b></b><br /></p><p class="p15" style="color: black; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">_____________________</b></p></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>11. Nudge</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Since we started back in March 2020 the driver behind the Glue factory (and its earlier iterations) has been to raise funds for The Trussell Trust, the UK food bank charity. They do good in these bad times. Please make a donation, in cash or in kind to your local foodbank. Details here:</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><b>https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/</b></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>And thank you!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>12. PS</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">For more than ten years Twitter has been part of my daily life and perhaps yours too. It's also supported the fragile eco-system of indie publishing. </span></b>At the time of writing it still seems likely that the platform will go belly up.</span></b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: courier;">In common with many I've set up a Mastodon account and if you're on the mailing list for this newsletter I hope you'll follow me there: </b></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://mastodon.social/invite/wdoKuQ2r" style="font-family: courier; text-align: justify; white-space: nowrap;"><b>https://mastodon.social/invite/wdoKuQ2r</b></a></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>I'll carry on using Twitter to promote The Glue Factory and be rude about the Tories until the online gatherings end </b></span></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>in December. </b></span></span></span></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>I may shut down </b></span></span><b style="font-family: courier; white-space: nowrap;">my account before then if the site becomes unendurable.</b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: nowrap;"> </b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Here's the <a href="https://medium.com/technical-excellence/how-authors-and-readers-can-prepare-for-twitterlessness-94dd6cc2058d">best thing I can find</a></b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"> </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">about the likely impact of Twitter disappearing, and the alternatives.</b></p><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: nowrap;">Mastodon is not (yet) as user-friendly, at least not for this newcomer, but -</b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: nowrap;">how best to put this? - there's a room in the elephant. See you there.</b></div><div class="date-posts" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"></div></div></div></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">13. PPS</span> </b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">I'm thinking about the future and about you, and all of the 1,000+ newsletter subscribers. I've invited a number of indie publishers to use The Glue Factory as a platform to promote new and forthcoming books and to showcase their past, current and future writers. So while the Glue Factory itself will vanish under the waves the platform will opearte as an occasional 'pop up shop' for special one-off events in 2023. So you'll get occasional invitations in the future and I hope you'll join the audience (as shall I). Some terrific things are coming.</b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><br /></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-44444053842421472682022-11-20T00:31:00.017+00:002022-11-20T10:29:25.412+00:00Newsletter 59<p> <b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">For more than ten years Twitter has been part of my daily life and perhaps yours too. It's also supported the fragile eco-system of indie publishing. </span></b>At the time of writing it seems very likely that the platform will go belly up, and may have already done so by the time you read this newsletter.</span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: courier;">In common with many, I've set up a Mastodon account and if you're on the mailing list for this newsletter I hope you'll follow me there: </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://mastodon.social/invite/wdoKuQ2r" style="font-family: courier; text-align: justify; white-space: nowrap;"><b>https://mastodon.social/invite/wdoKuQ2r</b></a></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">If you're a Twitter user and want to archive your account it's very straightforward, and takes less than a minute:</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>Go to Twitter, tap on More </span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>Then go to Settings and privacy > Your account > Download an archive of your data. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>Enter your password as needed and click Request archive. </span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>After you verify your account, the request will be processed within 24 hours.</span></b></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">(Having said which I've been waiting for three days with no response).</span></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>I'll carry on using Twitter to promote The Glue Factory until the online gatherings end </b></span></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>in December, but may shut down </b></span></span><b style="font-family: courier; white-space: nowrap;">my account before then if the site becomes unendurable.</b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: nowrap;"> </b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: nowrap;">Or it may simply disappear. </b></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Here's the <a href="https://medium.com/technical-excellence/how-authors-and-readers-can-prepare-for-twitterlessness-94dd6cc2058d">best thing I can find</a></b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"> </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">about the likely impact of Twitter disappearing, and the alternatives.</b></p><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: nowrap;">Mastodon is not (yet) as user-friendly, at least not for this newcomer, but -</b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: nowrap;">how best to put this? - there's a room in the elephant. See you there.</b></div><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p><b style="font-family: courier; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Now - to business.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Newsletter contents</b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. This week’s online gathering </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Carcanet</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> FdE Press</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Galley Beggar Press</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> Paper Visual Art (PVA)</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span><span> </span><span> Salt</span><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><b>4. </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>European Poetry Festival:Winter Camarad</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>5. Long Poem Magazine</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>6. Irish lit mag submission deadlines</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span>7. Irish Writers' Weekend at the British Library</span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>8. BBC 100 now live</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>9. Plug plug pluggity plug</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>10.</b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Jerry 'Wildseed Zen' Simcock's first novel </span></b></span><b> </b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>11. Next week's online gathering</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>12. Nudge</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Same old same old. But please don't skip to the next item.</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="s1" style="color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none;"> T</span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none;">he conflict continues, and horribly. The most far-reaching aid programme has been, and remains, the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. </span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none;">You can donate quickly and easily </span><span><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here</span></a><span style="color: #2b00fe;">, </span></span></span></b><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a;">whatever you can, whenever you can.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And, as mentioned last week, you might like to buy a copy of a new anthology compiled by Neill McGuirk and Michael Murphy in which n</span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">early 300 artists, writers and musicians discuss the records that influenced them, including our very own </span></span></span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Rónán Hession</span></span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on Billy Bragg. A</span></b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: courier;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ll proceeds go to Red Cross Ukraine. </span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"></b></span></p><div><b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">There's a full list of contributors (very impressive!), and you can order </span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://hopecollectiveireland.com/product/punks-listen/">here.</a></span></b></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;">Thank you.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">2. This week’s online gathering</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our very special guest is the poet, author, broadcaster, activist and all-round good egg Michael Rosen on editing <i>St. Pancreas Defendat Me,</i> the kenly-anticipated Johnson/Mogg correspondence. </span></b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPhndjvM3nUrMaXz8ecfFpRqnK742NOUHqHmfGR61THdXHAHrkZPqeL1vn9y9LzKnPY2DBWDzETTbMFcS9G8KdZfpv51pf0e3DzGu3hcEDQSSYHcgRuMUiT9Izix7qJo0-20kyvsWYar0kcO1elhfYJxX6G9eE5sgmz_kGU6xVtatM8bRYs6HdrtIglw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1020" data-original-width="764" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPhndjvM3nUrMaXz8ecfFpRqnK742NOUHqHmfGR61THdXHAHrkZPqeL1vn9y9LzKnPY2DBWDzETTbMFcS9G8KdZfpv51pf0e3DzGu3hcEDQSSYHcgRuMUiT9Izix7qJo0-20kyvsWYar0kcO1elhfYJxX6G9eE5sgmz_kGU6xVtatM8bRYs6HdrtIglw" width="180" /></a></div><br /><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>We'll also celebrate the centenary of the English publication of Wittgenstein's <i>Tractatus Logico-philosophicus. </i></b></span><b style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">Michael Hughes will read the disarming preamble to this great text and </b><b style="font-size: small; text-align: left;">the poet/historian Richard Barnett will share thoughts on the</b><b style="font-size: small; text-align: left;"> impact of the </b><b style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tractatus and its legacy.</span></b></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><br /></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBXszVsh47rrqVb3kYOyV2WVpT78eVK6owtcAYjQbUlpbKLKfw8VevR69tuhRksSvrdFw81-Ut7t81JYTziAq29JxLmRZC77HsiezTHqRlffwSpLakY2ThWeoCuU3yO4QPwOnka0eYmva-wctBJle4BSFbpwwvMK_YyNUmPCwe9syjqqAkqkLejgy1Yg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="474" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjBXszVsh47rrqVb3kYOyV2WVpT78eVK6owtcAYjQbUlpbKLKfw8VevR69tuhRksSvrdFw81-Ut7t81JYTziAq29JxLmRZC77HsiezTHqRlffwSpLakY2ThWeoCuU3yO4QPwOnka0eYmva-wctBJle4BSFbpwwvMK_YyNUmPCwe9syjqqAkqkLejgy1Yg" width="270" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier;">I'll talk about the tragic genius Frank Ramsey (below), who worked very closely with Wittgenstein on the translation from German to English.</b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></span></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><br /></b></span></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTdDUL7k2lkpRfYUWOYl89R3obWkgFj2ihn65Dy9mdGhGYbgbzNwzVzbaQaXdKKPJ1vdolJTtq0ogkbsP9ByYXcJQWuo6FqkeTc8M1Q7Z_z0Z14ZP11sNEB-Pvuih9o4Z6ipPr1ASQ-vWtzC9-Ngne_nA1W2LIc_4G4c7suGzKFBto1Sbn30Pn5h625Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="209" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTdDUL7k2lkpRfYUWOYl89R3obWkgFj2ihn65Dy9mdGhGYbgbzNwzVzbaQaXdKKPJ1vdolJTtq0ogkbsP9ByYXcJQWuo6FqkeTc8M1Q7Z_z0Z14ZP11sNEB-Pvuih9o4Z6ipPr1ASQ-vWtzC9-Ngne_nA1W2LIc_4G4c7suGzKFBto1Sbn30Pn5h625Q" width="208" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><br /></b></span><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>We'll visit the Wittgenstein house in Norway, and have the latest essay from </b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Melissa McCarthy, roving reporter</span></b></p><p class="p4" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 12px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>3. Indie press news </b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Carcanet</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #222222;">There's a new </span><i style="color: #222222;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product%3D9781800172906&source=gmail&ust=1667924570412000&usg=AOvVaw1mWM9L5QhDjnUnmZYX3ToS" href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800172906" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Selected Poems</a> </i><span style="color: #222222;">by </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id%3D166&source=gmail&ust=1667924570412000&usg=AOvVaw2N91UPzflYPlK6Cx3PDFjw" href="https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=166" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Donald Davie</a><span style="color: #222222;">, published to mark the centenary of his birth. The selection is made by Davie’s long-term editor and friend Michael Schmidt and introduced by award-winning poet Sinéad Morrissey. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><b><u></u><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-1dbjc4n r-1loqt21 r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l" href="https://twitter.com/FumdEstampa" role="link" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: transparent; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: nowrap; z-index: 0;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 css-1hf3ou5 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">FdE Press </span></span></span></a></b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;">@FumdEstampa</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #0f1419; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); color: #0f1419; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;">It passed me by at the time, but this indie (a noted publisher of fiction in translation) announced some months ago that they wanted to start publishing original work in English. And they've received only two submissions so far... so spread the word!</span></p></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><a href="https://www.fumdestampa.com/"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>https://www.fumdestampa.com/</b></span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>PS apparently the word has already spread and they've been inundated with submissions. Which just goes to show that (a) single messages don't make much of an impact and need to be repeated, and (b) Twitter has been central to the indie publishing sector, and will be a great loss.</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Galley Beggar Press</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><div id="m_3118486418286831157text-text-section-8" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: -webkit-center;"><table bgcolor="transparent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="m_3118486418286831157section-text-area m_3118486418286831157padding-mobile-both" style="background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 11px 44px; word-break: break-word;" valign="top"><p style="color: inherit; line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>The Beggars are launching another season of their popular Critical Reading Zoom classes in February. These are six monthly classes (held on Tuesday evenings UK time) where new and classic novels are torn apart to find out what makes them tick - and what makes them matter. Sam Jordison will fill in some of the background of the books and authors and bring his own theories to the class - but (he says) a big part of the joy comes in the discussion and shared appreciation of what writers can do. Everyone reads a different novel, after all. </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>You can find out<span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://f69e.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m%3D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.galleybeggar.co.uk%252Fschool-critical-reading-critical-writing%253Fss_source%253Dsscampaigns%2526ss_campaign_id%253D6370ffcc5803ad52c996ac86%2526ss_email_id%253D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%2526ss_campaign_name%253DHope%2526ss_campaign_sent_date%253D2022-11-14T09%25253A50%25253A54Z%26w%3D591373983a041126bc4478a6%26l%3Den-US%26s%3DCvdU_p5zosLKnWcriP5aGOF9ITE%253D&source=gmail&ust=1668505864344000&usg=AOvVaw2t011_Ey-fBPg_gXritaM5" href="https://f69e.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.galleybeggar.co.uk%2Fschool-critical-reading-critical-writing%3Fss_source%3Dsscampaigns%26ss_campaign_id%3D6370ffcc5803ad52c996ac86%26ss_email_id%3D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%26ss_campaign_name%3DHope%26ss_campaign_sent_date%3D2022-11-14T09%253A50%253A54Z&w=591373983a041126bc4478a6&l=en-US&s=CvdU_p5zosLKnWcriP5aGOF9ITE%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">more details here</span></a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">. </span>The entire six-month course costs just £125 - and GBP will be happy to arrange it as a gift if you want to buy a place for a friend or loved one as a Christmas present.</b></span></p><p style="color: inherit; line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Here are the books the group will be reading:</b></span></p><p style="color: inherit; line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><em>The Awakening by Kate Chopin </em>is a neglected (in the UK at least) early feminist classic set in New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century. It’s pioneering modernism. It’s got a lot to say and it’s fascinating.</b></span></p><p style="color: inherit; line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><em>Persuasion</em> by Jane Austen </b></span></p><p style="color: inherit; line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; font-family: courier; text-align: -webkit-center;">Beyond Black</em><span color="inherit" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: courier; text-align: -webkit-center;"> by Hilary Mantel</span></span></b></p><p style="color: inherit; line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><em style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; font-family: courier; text-align: -webkit-center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">White Noise by Don Delillo </span></b></em></p><p style="color: inherit; line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><em>White Teeth</em> by Zadie Smith</b></span></p><p style="color: inherit; line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><em>Playthings</em> by Alex Pheby </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://f69e.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m%3D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.galleybeggar.co.uk%252Fschool-critical-reading-critical-writing%253Fss_source%253Dsscampaigns%2526ss_campaign_id%253D6370ffcc5803ad52c996ac86%2526ss_email_id%253D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%2526ss_campaign_name%253DHope%2526ss_campaign_sent_date%253D2022-11-14T09%25253A50%25253A54Z%26w%3D591373983a041126bc4478a6%26l%3Den-US%26s%3DCvdU_p5zosLKnWcriP5aGOF9ITE%253D&source=gmail&ust=1668505864345000&usg=AOvVaw1pB-jcYZgDWr6KNQbDs1_G" href="https://f69e.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.galleybeggar.co.uk%2Fschool-critical-reading-critical-writing%3Fss_source%3Dsscampaigns%26ss_campaign_id%3D6370ffcc5803ad52c996ac86%26ss_email_id%3D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%26ss_campaign_name%3DHope%26ss_campaign_sent_date%3D2022-11-14T09%253A50%253A54Z&w=591373983a041126bc4478a6&l=en-US&s=CvdU_p5zosLKnWcriP5aGOF9ITE%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><b>Sign up here!</b></span></a><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="m_3118486418286831157image-image-section-below-9" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: -webkit-center;"><table bgcolor="transparent" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" role="presentation" style="width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;">(DC adds, grumpily: I had to study Persuasion at school for A Level, a premature exposure that put me off Jane Austen for the next forty years. So I might sign up for this to see what I've been missing.)</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.618em; margin: 0px 0px 1.25em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">More from Galley Beggar: they’re about to sign off two books (Meena Kandasamy’s<span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span><em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://f69e.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m%3D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.galleybeggar.co.uk%252Fpaperback-shop%252Fthe-book-of-desire%253Fss_source%253Dsscampaigns%2526ss_campaign_id%253D6370ffcc5803ad52c996ac86%2526ss_email_id%253D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%2526ss_campaign_name%253DHope%2526ss_campaign_sent_date%253D2022-11-14T09%25253A50%25253A54Z%26w%3D591373983a041126bc4478a6%26l%3Den-US%26s%3DWwBEXXO33ejl8hQM3R7iAEQ8lks%253D&source=gmail&ust=1668505864345000&usg=AOvVaw3r9GOg8WRYkh77rxOtMcP0" href="https://f69e.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.galleybeggar.co.uk%2Fpaperback-shop%2Fthe-book-of-desire%3Fss_source%3Dsscampaigns%26ss_campaign_id%3D6370ffcc5803ad52c996ac86%26ss_email_id%3D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%26ss_campaign_name%3DHope%26ss_campaign_sent_date%3D2022-11-14T09%253A50%253A54Z&w=591373983a041126bc4478a6&l=en-US&s=WwBEXXO33ejl8hQM3R7iAEQ8lks%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The Book of Desire </span></a></em>and Toby Litt’s <span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span><em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://f69e.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m%3D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.galleybeggar.co.uk%252Fpaperback-shop%252Fa-writers-diary%253Fss_source%253Dsscampaigns%2526ss_campaign_id%253D6370ffcc5803ad52c996ac86%2526ss_email_id%253D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%2526ss_campaign_name%253DHope%2526ss_campaign_sent_date%253D2022-11-14T09%25253A50%25253A54Z%26w%3D591373983a041126bc4478a6%26l%3Den-US%26s%3DN6o7GX4CgFnwobCrPZhYPd7BU44%253D&source=gmail&ust=1668505864345000&usg=AOvVaw120VhuZjxssj6mwH16Ohm8" href="https://f69e.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.galleybeggar.co.uk%2Fpaperback-shop%2Fa-writers-diary%3Fss_source%3Dsscampaigns%26ss_campaign_id%3D6370ffcc5803ad52c996ac86%26ss_email_id%3D63720f6823e4be1634d5f1f3%26ss_campaign_name%3DHope%26ss_campaign_sent_date%3D2022-11-14T09%253A50%253A54Z&w=591373983a041126bc4478a6&l=en-US&s=N6o7GX4CgFnwobCrPZhYPd7BU44%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">A Writer’s Diary</span></a></em><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">: </span>both available for pre-order here). Toby launched the Diary on The Glue Factory at the start of this year and joined us a few months ago for a catch-up midway through this extraordinary long-form project. He'll make a final appearance on the Glue Factory on<span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)"> </span><b style="color: inherit;">Sunday 4th December</b><span color="rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)">)</span></span></p></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Héloïse</b></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Press</span></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">This week the <i>Times Lit Supp</i> published its annual feature in which various luminaries choose their books of the year. Among them was Anna Katharina Schaffner, </span></b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>professor of cultural history at the University of Kent, who chose Erica Mou's debut novel <i>Thirsty Sea</i>.</b></span><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> The author, her translator Clarissa Botsford and publisher </span></b><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Aina Marti-Balcells</b></span></span><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> appeared on The Glue Factory in April.</span></b></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; margin-bottom: 32px; text-align: justify;"><b>Here's what she said:</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #292929; margin-bottom: 32px; text-align: justify;">This year I have felt myself drawn to novels that make me laugh, because, with the daily reports on the horror of the war in Ukraine and the climate crisis, little else does right now. Among the books that have helped me through the past months, two in particular stand out: Bonnie Garmus’s sharp feminist fable <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lessons in Chemistry</i> (Doubleday) and the Italian singer-songwriter Erica Mou’s moving debut novel <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Thirsty Sea</i> (Héloïse Press). Although she’s writing on heinous structural sexism and its depressing psychosocial effects, Garmus does so with wit, warmth and bone-dry irony. Mou, too, perfectly masters the art of balancing dark and light. The story of Maria, who wrestles with the psychological repercussions of a tragic accident, displays Mou’s flair for smartly subversive and musical prose, highly original characters and distinctive metaphors. In fact, it is in her imagery where her impish humour resides. At one point, for instance, Maria describes her mother’s face as one that “laughs and cries at the same time”, and that “has no direction, like her name”.</p></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Paper Visual Art</span> </b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVOOSOlx92URVNx-GDJq6ZElQdpeBaxpQ5GxvDeCDHTQUJ2tci3G3WA4i8xtepjY3aYvkhNUHEJEhnYoJ9u7rl2bEEsi3xKp2NA3zieANuarif1V78cW9qwjsWdQ8M_jeZxaFebEv58QB2qb0PJs8PFp1dXHmDaAdHsvumHxmp_yyaNOGcf7rgmmJ24g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1170" data-original-width="724" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVOOSOlx92URVNx-GDJq6ZElQdpeBaxpQ5GxvDeCDHTQUJ2tci3G3WA4i8xtepjY3aYvkhNUHEJEhnYoJ9u7rl2bEEsi3xKp2NA3zieANuarif1V78cW9qwjsWdQ8M_jeZxaFebEv58QB2qb0PJs8PFp1dXHmDaAdHsvumHxmp_yyaNOGcf7rgmmJ24g" width="149" /></a></div><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #6f7287; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><b>This week's Wendy Erskine sighting! </b></span></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0px;">She's the editor of </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0px;">well I just kind of like it,</em> a collection of writing and images about art in the home and the home as art. Through a beautifully arranged series of essays, conversations, photographs, fragments, drawings, and reflections, this publication sheds light on the stuff of the home in a vital and compelling way.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>With contributions by Latifa Akay, Mauricio Alejo, Richard Billingham, Jo Broughton, Darran Anderson, Rossa Coyle, Emily Dickinson, Susannah Dickey, Wendy Erskine, Nicole Flattery, David Hayden, David Keenan, Heather Leigh, Philip Mann, Jan McCullough, Gareth McConnell, Lara Pawson, Keith Ridgway, Joseph Scott, Frances Stark, Annelies Štrba, Maurice van Tellingen, Joanna Walsh, and Shaun Whiteside.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #6f7287; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Order direct form the publisher PVA Books <a href="https://papervisualart.com/product/well-i-just-kind-of-like-it/">here.</a></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Salt</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Published this week and edited by Nicholas Royle (The Glue Factory <i>passim</i>), the nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth year. </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Best British Short Stories</i> invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor’s brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/best-british-short-stories-2022-9781784632489"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/best-british-short-stories-2022-9781784632489</b></span></a></p></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><strong style="color: #6a6124; font-family: lora, georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 20px; letter-spacing: 5px; text-align: center;"><br /></strong></p><h2 style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="letter-spacing: 5px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>4.</b></span></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">European Poetry Festival:Winter Camarade</b></span></h2><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: courier; letter-spacing: 5px; text-align: center;"><span color="rgb(106, 97, 36) !important" style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></strong></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Wednesday 23rd November at 7.30pm - Free Entry. </b></p><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Ln, London SE1 7LG</b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Closing the EPF’s program for 2022, poets in pairs from countries </b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">across the continent present brand new collaborations of literary performance, made especially for the night. Held at the remarkable </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Iklectik Artlab in Waterloo, London with New performances and </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">commissions by </b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #434547; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><strong>Xelis de Toro & Blanca Regina<br />SJ Fowler & Benedict Taylor<br />Egidija Čiricaitė & Jules Sprake<br />Milo Thesiger-Meacham & Gianna T.<br />Daniel Kramb & Julia Rose Lewis<br />Laura Davis & Shani Cadwallender<br />Michael O’Mahony & Matt Martin<br />Aea Varfis-van Warmelo & Prudence Chamberlain-Bussey<br />Radosław Jurczak, Marta Koronkiewicz & Paweł Kaczmarski</strong></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://theenemiesproject.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfaf956113cd2a96a41681f993%26id%3Dcd9520c5f6%26e%3D4111079575&source=gmail&ust=1668688990096000&usg=AOvVaw1-UrdSMI_dc6vVKV1kkQyh" href="https://theenemiesproject.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=faf956113cd2a96a41681f993&id=cd9520c5f6&e=4111079575" target="_blank">iklectikartlab.com/european-<wbr></wbr>poetry-festival-winter-<wbr></wbr>camarade-2022/</a></span></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>5. Long Poem Magazine</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><blockquote style="background-color: white; border-left: 2px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); color: #333333; font-style: italic; margin: 14px 20px; padding-left: 20px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><em>LPM is invaluable in that it offers a unique home to poets who write at greater length but, more importantly, in that it publishes inspiring work of such high quality. What would poets do without it?</em></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px;"><em>– Mimi Khalvati</em></p></blockquote><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; margin: 0px 0px 15px; text-align: justify;">Founded in 2008 by Anna Robinson, Long Poem Magazine grew out of a long poem workshop run by Mimi Khalvati. The magazine is published bi-annually (although it's unclear to me whether that means it appears once every two years or twice annually, and if it's the latter (which seems more likely) why not say so?)</p><h4 style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #333333; line-height: 1.3; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px;">Visit the <a href="http://www.longpoemmagazine.org.uk/submissions/" style="color: #0a5794; text-decoration-line: none;">submissions page</a> to for details of how to contribute or <a href="http://www.longpoemmagazine.org.uk/shop/" style="color: #0a5794; text-decoration-line: none;">the shop to buy issues and subscribe.</a></h4></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span>6. I</span><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">rish lit mag deadlines:</span></b></span></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/ThePigsBack1" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@ThePigsBack1</a></span></div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> closes for submissions 15th Nov (fiction & non-fic)
</span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/stingingfly" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@stingingfly</a></span></div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> opens for submissions 15th-30th Nov
</span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/Bealtainemag" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@Bealtainemag</a></span></div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> closes for submissions 4th Dec
</span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/CrannogMag" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@CrannogMag</a></span></div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> closes for submissions 30th Nov (fiction & poetry)</span></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Get weaving!</b></span></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>7. Irish Writers' Weekend at the British Library</b></span></span></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"> Saturday 26th to Sunday 27th November</b></div><div><span><span><div class="text-block" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none;"><p class="standfirst" style="color: black; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0.6875rem; max-width: 960px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="standfirst" style="color: black; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0.6875rem; max-width: 960px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">A two-day festival of words and ideas featuring some of Ireland’s most exciting and accomplished writers. </span></p><p class="standfirst" style="color: black; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0.6875rem; max-width: 960px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">A collaboration between the British Library and Galway’s renowned Cúirt International Festival of Literature, the Irish Writers’ Weekend London is a chance to hear from novelists, poets, essayists and writers of all backgrounds at the top of their game. </span></p><p class="standfirst" style="color: black; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0.6875rem; max-width: 960px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Most events take place at the Shaw Theatre, 100–110 Euston Rd, London, immediately next door to the British Library. Occasional sessions are in the main British Library building. </span></p></div><div class="text-block" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-style: none;"><p style="color: black; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0.6875rem; max-width: 960px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">This will be simultaneously live streamed on the British Library platform apart from sessions marked *. Tickets may be booked either to attend in person (physical), or to watch on our platform (online) either live or within 48 hours on catch up. Viewing links will be sent out shortly before the event.</span></p><p style="color: black; margin: 0.625rem 0px 0.6875rem; max-width: 960px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Book sales and signings take place in the main Library throughout the weekend.</span></p><ul style="color: black; list-style: circle; margin: 0px; padding: 0.5rem 0px 0.5rem 2rem;"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.bl.uk/boxoffice/showdetails.aspx?shcode=125c8b6b-3f0f-ed11-8137-005056b55014" style="color: #018074; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong>Book for the Weekend Pass</strong></a><strong> (in person)</strong> £40 (£34 over 60s, £20 students, under 26, disabled)</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.bl.uk/boxoffice/showdetails.aspx?shcode=125c8b6b-3f0f-ed11-8137-005056b55014" style="color: #018074; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong>Book for the Weekend Online Pass</strong></a> (all Theatre sessions) £15</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.bl.uk/boxoffice/showdetails.aspx?shcode=fd0d33eb-490f-ed11-8137-005056b55014" style="color: #018074; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong>Book for the Saturday Pass</strong></a><strong> (in person) </strong>£26 (£22 over 60s, £13 students, under 26, disabled)</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.bl.uk/boxoffice/showdetails.aspx?shcode=fd0d33eb-490f-ed11-8137-005056b55014" style="color: #018074; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong>Book for the Saturday Online Pass</strong></a> (all Theatre sessions) £10</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.bl.uk/boxoffice/showdetails.aspx?shcode=12d5d428-4b0f-ed11-8137-005056b55014" style="color: #018074; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong>Book for the Sunday Pass</strong></a><strong> (in person) </strong>£26 (£22 over 60s, £13 students, under 26, disabled)</span></li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 1rem;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.bl.uk/boxoffice/showdetails.aspx?shcode=12d5d428-4b0f-ed11-8137-005056b55014" style="color: #018074; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong>Book for the Sunday Online Pass</strong></a> (all Theatre sessions) £10</span></li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier;">The Saturday programme begins at midday with </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">a session called 'Northern Lights' featuring Jan Carson and Wendy Erskine in conversation with Peggy Hughes.</span></div></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">(That's this week's Wendy Erskine update)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">At 4:30 'Ireland Today: A Writers’ View' with Suad Aldarra, Emma Dabiri, Emilie Pine and Wendy Erskine in conversation with Patrick Freyne.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">(That's this week's <i>other</i> Wendy Erskine update)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Full programme details here:<span style="color: red;"> </span></span></div><div><span><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.bl.uk/events/irish-writers-weekend-london-weekend-pass"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />https://www.bl.uk/events/irish-writers-weekend-london-weekend-pass</a></b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b> </b></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/FhGnTsb2dK" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">rgotten-wonder-of-felicia-glowacka</span></a><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">8. BBC 100 NOW LIVE</span></b><span style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 23px;">
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Launched on Monday 14th November (the hundredth anniversary of the day the BBC began daily broadcasting), here's an archive curated by Jeremy Noel-Todd of 100 poets who have appeared on the BBC in the past century.</span>
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Really good, this.</span>
</span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/8I1wrYJJs6" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-size: small; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">http://</span>poetryarchive.org/bbc</span></a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 23px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">9. Shocking filler</b></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Stumped for gift ideas? </b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Multiple Joyce: 100 short essays about James Joyce's cultural legacy</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Published in Dublin on 16th June (Bloomsday) this year, this is the only book about the author's cultural legacy you're likely to need.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLbG40OZtfSKXGn41LkaxxR42mMyEn3_e2-H2ZgqUYk3Y7fsiDARDWj2BBJR5QCbdihGQEXtem2Y4b6J8fQnuhsOjlOjsARs0yMD6k1QiuCqUoTvw45PpMx-3u_1r63U8icHAwXHJajPtx4GVdhFW9LMKIUVZAvYLtGtQU0rTdJrbSq1_473FwtJlgvw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLbG40OZtfSKXGn41LkaxxR42mMyEn3_e2-H2ZgqUYk3Y7fsiDARDWj2BBJR5QCbdihGQEXtem2Y4b6J8fQnuhsOjlOjsARs0yMD6k1QiuCqUoTvw45PpMx-3u_1r63U8icHAwXHJajPtx4GVdhFW9LMKIUVZAvYLtGtQU0rTdJrbSq1_473FwtJlgvw" width="164" /></a></div><br /></b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span><span> </span><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Get one here: </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="goog_1347812972"><br /></a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/">https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/</a></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>10. Jerry 'Wildseed Zen' Simcock's first novel</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixGHH6sI8xmnVKQ70tByqp9db3mxd9VO-g7rUb1WFHvkaUQcx8MxDz72BuiEAkptTIGkTR57Uk1x3SzH2cNt630WiBxIiuXOZu_omMyJORdnblFP7DVppTg1WiYqmBMs2QM3C4KX9EKSt-hOE9Wm48Msm7_2hnPprMvIEXJD7x7V1nNiOe527IQwEORg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="798" data-original-width="1288" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixGHH6sI8xmnVKQ70tByqp9db3mxd9VO-g7rUb1WFHvkaUQcx8MxDz72BuiEAkptTIGkTR57Uk1x3SzH2cNt630WiBxIiuXOZu_omMyJORdnblFP7DVppTg1WiYqmBMs2QM3C4KX9EKSt-hOE9Wm48Msm7_2hnPprMvIEXJD7x7V1nNiOe527IQwEORg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Published by Vagabond Voices (a Scottish indie) this is the debut novel by Jerry Simcock (a regular member of the Glue Factory audience who may be better known to you under his social media pen name of 'Wildseed Zen') Details <b style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/vagabonds/giselle-and-mr-memphis">here</a></b> (including a wonderful playlist).</span></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;">(Vagabond are new to me. They were founded in 2008 and are based in Glasgow as 'an independent publisher that is both Scottish and fervently European in its aims.' Sounds like a plan. It strikes me that if there's any future at all worth having, indie publishers will provide cultural conduits or portals or bridges that will enable us to re-unite with mainland Europe culturally, economically and politically. And within my lifetime, please.)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Vagabond publish in six different series: Vagabonds, Changelings, Rants, Poetry, Playwrights and Contemplations.</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Full details of these on their excellent </b></span><b><a href="https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/about">website</a>.</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>11. Next week's online gathering</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Cristina Viti on her translation of </b></span><span class="s2" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-kerning: none;"><b>Pasolini’s <i>La rabbia / Anger</i></b></span></p><p class="p3" style="font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: 14px; white-space: pre;">m</span></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">arking the centenary of the great Italian film director's birth.</span></b></span></p><p class="p4" style="color: blue; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span>Elena Addomine, President of OpLePo (the Italian equivalent to the French OuLiPo movement) reads some of her virtuosic ludic 'homographic translations' and 'Chimera' an Anglo-Italian mash-up of Dante and Shakepeare</b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> </b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Paolo Pergola introduces OpLePo author Paolo Albani who will share some of his <i>Esercizi di stile di lettura </i>based on the following two-line poem.<i> </i></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Italian version<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Translation</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Meriggiare pallido e assorto<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>To rest at noon, pale and thoughtful</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>presso un rovento muro d'orto<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>near a blazing orchard wall</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The various styles Paolo Albani uses tio deliver these lines are (in order):</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> A s</span>tandard reading</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At a fruit and vegetables market in Naples</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>During a kidnapping attempt</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Forward and backwards </b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>5.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> A</span>t a Futurist meeting</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>6.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> A</span>t a Gregorian mass</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>7.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As a verdict at a tribunal</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>8.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>During a revolutionary parade</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>9.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> W</span>hen giving directions</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>10. At an aristocratic dinner</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>11. In a silent movie</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>In the second part of the show three former members of the evangelical cult Jehovah's Witnesses - Ali Millar, Ariel Andersson and myself - share thoughts about their escape from the clutches of this weird cult, and the consolations of literature. Expect revelations.</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span></p></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>12. Nudge</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>From <i>The Guardian </i>(10th Nov 2022)</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div class="dcr-1nupfq9" data-gu-name="headline" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; grid-area: headline / headline / headline / headline; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-krkkhw" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 620px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-13a2edo" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 36px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="dcr-6rhr0p" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 4px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "GH Guardian Headline", "Guardian Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px; padding: 4px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nurses among rising numbers of workers using food banks, research shows</span></h1></div></div></div><div class="dcr-zjgnrw" data-gu-name="standfirst" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; grid-area: standfirst / standfirst / standfirst / standfirst; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="dcr-ai6lo6" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; max-width: 540px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Trussell Trust figures reveal one in five referrals to its centres were from households where someone worked</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #121212; font-family: GH Guardian Headline, Guardian Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><b>Patrick Butler </b></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #121212; font-family: GH Guardian Headline, Guardian Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><b>Social policy editor</b></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #121212; font-family: GH Guardian Headline, Guardian Egyptian Web, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p></div></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Nurses, shop assistants and youth workers are among large numbers of people in low-paid jobs forced for the first time to accept charity food parcels to stay afloat as the cost of living crisis transforms the profile of the typical UK food bank user.</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Research by the Trussell Trust, Britain’s largest food bank network, found one in in five people referred to its 1,300 food bank centres in the summer were from households where someone worked. It also reported 145,000 families had used its food banks for the first time in recent months, an increase of 40%.</span></p><div id="sign-in-gate" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><gu-island clientonly="true" data-gu-ready="true" name="SignInGateSelector" props="{"format":{"display":0,"theme":0,"design":0},"contentType":"Article","sectionName":"society","tags":[{"id":"society/food-banks","type":"Keyword","title":"Food banks"},{"id":"business/cost-of-living-crisis","type":"Keyword","title":"UK cost of living crisis"},{"id":"society/poverty","type":"Keyword","title":"Poverty"},{"id":"money/pay","type":"Keyword","title":"Pay"},{"id":"society/nursing","type":"Keyword","title":"Nursing"},{"id":"uk/uk","type":"Keyword","title":"UK news"},{"id":"campaign/email/morning-briefing","type":"Campaign","title":"First Edition (newsletter signup)"},{"id":"type/article","type":"Type","title":"Article"},{"id":"tone/news","type":"Tone","title":"News"},{"id":"profile/patrickbutler","type":"Contributor","title":"Patrick Butler","bylineImageUrl":"https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/06/05/Patrick-Butler1.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=609bb4b7d5c6c37f944f15eb16b2b083","bylineLargeImageUrl":"https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2017/10/09/Patrick_Butler,_L.png?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7e9a09f449e616061738413e937d1c45"},{"id":"publication/theguardian","type":"Publication","title":"The Guardian"},{"id":"theguardian/mainsection","type":"NewspaperBook","title":"Main section"},{"id":"theguardian/mainsection/uknews","type":"NewspaperBookSection","title":"UK news"},{"id":"tracking/commissioningdesk/uk-home-news","type":"Tracking","title":"UK Home News"}],"isPaidContent":false,"isPreview":false,"host":"https://www.theguardian.com","pageId":"society/2022/nov/10/nurses-among-rising-numbers-of-workers-using-food-banks-research-shows","idUrl":"https://profile.theguardian.com"}" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></gu-island></span></div><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Examples of people in in-work poverty referred to Trussell Trust food banks in recent months include trainee nurses, teaching assistants, factory workers, retail assistants, delivery drivers and hospitality workers.</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Trussell Trust announced on Thursday 10th November it had given out record numbers of food parcels in the six months since April as shrinking incomes and rising bills drove a “tsunami” of need to its food banks. It gave out 1.3m food parcels over the period, a third more than during the same period in 2021.</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“These new statistics show that, even in summer months, people are struggling to afford the essentials and we are expecting that this winter will be the hardest yet for food banks and the people they support. This is not right,” said Emma Revie, the Trussell Trust chief executive.</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The increasing numbers of people holding down jobs while relying on the trust’s food parcels has persuaded some food banks in its network to open at 8am to allow people referred to them to pick up a food parcel on their way to work.</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">“Although we have a large proportion of people referred to us who are on benefits, we are seeing more and more people who are working, but whose wages have not increased in line with the rise in the cost of food, fuel and other items needed for a basic living standard,” said Gill Fourie, the operational manager at Blackburn food bank.</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">She added: “We are ta</span><span style="font-size: small;">lking about anyone who is in a minimum wage job, or people on zero hours contracts. These people are often really struggling.”</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Greenwich food bank head Jamie Ginns told the Guardian “lots of new faces were coming through the doors” of food banks, adding: “Basically, anyone that is on under £25,000 a year is in danger of using a food bank.”</span></p><div class="ad-slot-container ad-slot-container-2 offset-right ad-slot--offset-right ad-slot-container--offset-right" style="-webkit-box-pack: center; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; display: flex; float: right; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; justify-content: center; line-height: inherit; margin: 12px -318px 12px auto; max-width: 300px; min-height: 937.078px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><div aria-hidden="true" class="js-ad-slot ad-slot ad-slot--inline ad-slot--inline2 ad-slot--rendered" data-google-query-id="COyT-_Cgo_sCFRpCHQkdhSAH5A" data-link-name="ad slot inline2" data-name="inline2" id="dfp-ad--inline2" style="align-self: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 624px; padding: 0px; position: sticky; top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="ad-slot__label" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: #f6f6f6; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #707070; font-family: GuardianTextSans, "Guardian Text Sans Web", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; height: 24px; line-height: 1.35; margin: 0px; max-height: 24px; padding: 0px 8px; position: relative; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Advertisement<span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div><div class="ad-slot__content" id="google_ads_iframe_/59666047/theguardian.com/society/article/ng_1__container__" style="border: 0pt none; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; height: 600px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 300px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><iframe aria-label="Advertisement" data-google-container-id="7" data-is-safeframe="true" data-load-complete="true" frameborder="0" height="600" id="google_ads_iframe_/59666047/theguardian.com/society/article/ng_1" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" name="" role="region" sandbox="allow-forms allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" scrolling="no" src="https://c6fff18d9a56781874e0ee9a040dba46.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-39/html/container.html" style="border-style: initial; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: bottom;" tabindex="0" title="3rd party ad content" width="300"></iframe></span></div></div></div><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sharron, a youth worker from London in her 30s, told the Guardian she had had to use a Trussell Trust food bank while working part time. “Your dignity and pride takes a blow. You are working, you have a flat – how can you not afford to feed yourself? It strips you of your self-esteem.”</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ironically, the youth project she now works at is to start offering emergency food packages for the parents of some of the youngsters who attend, many of whom are really struggling. She would prefer those families were helped through higher wages but “sometimes there is no time for pride, it’s about survival”.</span></p><div class="dcr-1gnfftb" id="maincontent" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="article-body-commercial-selector article-body-viewer-selector dcr-10nm96b" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Five years ago a <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2017/07/OU_Report_final_01_08_online2.pdf" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c70000; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Trussell-funded study</a> identified lone parents and single males, often on out of work benefits who experienced extreme poverty and often a disability as most likely to use food banks. While they are still heavily reliant on food banks, the new figures suggest they have been joined by an influx of low paid working families.</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The trust, which is <a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/20/uks-biggest-food-bank-network-to-spend-millions-on-parcels-this-winter" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c70000; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">spending millions of pounds this winter</a> buying food because food donations are not keeping track of rising demand for parcels, is calling on the chancellor to provide a broad package of support for low income families in next week’s budget, including raising benefits next April in line with inflation of 10.1%.</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sabine Goodwin, coordinator of the Independent Food Aid Network, said its 600 organisations including 550 non-Trussell Trust food banks, faced similarly unrelenting demand pressure from struggling families. “Relying on food charity is neither sustainable nor effective at reducing food insecurity,” she said.</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A government spokesperson said: “We are directly supporting households in need following the aftershocks from the pandemic and Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine, including sending another Cost of Living Payment this month worth £324 to over 8 million people, part of a £1,200 package for those on the lowest incomes.”</span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><span style="color: red;">Please support The Trussell Trust!</span></b></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: Courier;"><b><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/">Make a one-click donation here.</a></b></span></span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>Thank you.</b></span></span></p><p class="dcr-2v2zi4" style="--source-text-decoration-thickness: 2px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 1.0625rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-break: break-word;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">______________</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">______</b></p></div></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /><br /><br /><br /></b></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-60258661023055159382022-11-13T06:28:00.000+00:002022-11-13T06:28:41.734+00:00Newsletter 58<p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">The Glue Factory online gatherings will come to an end in a month's time, on Sunday December 11th. This, the third iteration of a series that began with <i>A Leap in the Dark</i> during the pandemic lockdown in March 2020, will be the last, and it really is the end. No more after this.</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">The newsletter will continue until the following Sunday (18th), and there will be a performance by the Carthorse Orchestra Players after Christmas, details of which will follow.</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">For reasons that won't surprise you I'm moving away from Twitter and, since I have only ever promoted The Glue Factory through that particular platform, this seems to me to be excellent timing. With a book to edit, another to complete and submit and many other commitments, I'll need all the time I can get in 2023 and beyond.</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">I've set up a Mastodon account and, at the time of writing, </b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">have around 30 followers More would be very welcome, and if you're on </b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">the mailing list for this newsletter I hope you'll be among them.</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>You can follow me here: </b><a href="https://mastodon.social/invite/QtBRrwfa" style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400; white-space: nowrap;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://mastodon.social/invite/QtBRrwfa</span></b></a></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>I'll continue to use Twitter for the time being, to share newsletter links and to promote </b></span></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">The Glue Factory until the gatherings end, but I may shut down </b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">my account before then if the site becomes unendurable.</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Mastodon is not quite as user-friendly as Twitter, at least not for this newcomer, but - </b></span></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">how best to put this? - there's a room in the elephant. </b></p><div><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;">Now, to business, and this week's newsletter...</b></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p> <b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">Newsletter contents</b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></p><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. This week’s online gathering </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Confingo</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Fitzcarraldo and the 2022 Goldsmiths Prize</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>4. </b></span><b>Street Writing Woman: A Tribute to Laura Del-Rivo </b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>5. <i>Lost in the Willows - </i>tonight!</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span>6. </span>Ghost Stories for Christmas</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>7. QUEER anthology (2nd edition)</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">8. </b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>MA/MFA in Creative Writing at City University</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>9. This week's Wendy Erskine news </b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>10. Close readings of <i>The Waste Land</i></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>11.</b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span></b></span><b style="background-color: transparent;">Shocking filler 🧦🧦🧦</b><b> </b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>12. Next week's online gathering</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>13. Nudge</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small;"><span class="s1" style="color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>It's not over yet. T</b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>he most far-reaching aid programme has been, and remains, the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. </b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>You can donate quickly and easily </b></span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here.</span></a></b></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Please</b><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> donate whatever you can, whenever you can.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">And you might like to buy a copy of a new anthology compiled by Neill McGuirk and Michael Murphy in which n</span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">early 300 artists, writers and musicians discuss the records that influenced them, including our very own </span></span></span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Rónán Hession</span></span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on Billy Bragg. A</span></b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">ll proceeds go to Red Cross Ukraine. Good work! </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"></b></span></p><div><b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>There's a full list of contributors (very impressive!), and you can pre-order </span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://hopecollectiveireland.com/product/punks-listen/">here.</a></span></b></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>Thank you.</b></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">2. This week’s online gathering</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>We welcome back Vik Shirley and her guests for an evening dedicated to horror and the grotesque.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><b>Vik will be reading from her new collection <i>Corpses </i>and from <i>Grotesquerie for the Apocalypse</i>.</b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Nicky Melville will perform poems responding to films such as <i>Salem’s Lot</i> and<i> Scanners </i>and <i>The Dead Don’t Die</i>.</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Steven Fowler offers responses to horror films including <i>The</i> <i>Silence of the Lambs</i> and <i>An American Werewolf in London</i> </b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Madelaine Culver will read ‘found’ poems using text from reviews of <i>Under the Skin</i> and share some thoughts on women in horror</b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>David Spittle will discuss Italian horror and the genre knonw as ‘Giallo’<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b>And I'll talk about Alfred Hitchcock's bizar</b><b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;">re and undervalued masterpiece <i>The Trouble with Harry</i>: a light romantic comedy ... about a corpse.</b></p><p></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 11px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>3. Indie Press news</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Confingo</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">You still have time to pre-order <i>Manchester Uncanny, </i>a collection of short stories<i> </i>by Nicholas Royle</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> at the special offer price of £12.99 with free p&p.<i> Manchester Review of Books </i></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">says: ‘Royle is a master of the uncanny. This new collection proves it.' </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/L2r1IMilWi" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>confingopublishing.uk/product-page/m</a></span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/L2r1IMilWi" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">anchester-uncanny</span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">I've read this collection with tremendous interest and admiration - it's warmly recommended! </span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">A mention in <i>Manchester Uncanny</i> of the Aaben cinema in Hulme prompts me to share this blog from 2013 - my memories of the Hulme Estate in Manchester in the late 1970s: </span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8534536753236336876/6132935008677647432">https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8534536753236336876/6132935008677647432</a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Fitzcarraldo</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Congratulations to this magnificent indie on the publication of their 100th title: </b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3D180f787ad7%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1668096162155000&usg=AOvVaw0kqy3GrBjII434AkV1alwg" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=180f787ad7&e=75c11b2d83" style="background-color: white;" target="_blank"><em>Aliss at the Fire</em> by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls</a><span style="background-color: white;">. </span></span><b style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier;">(As it happens I reviewed the very first Fitzcarraldo title - </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: courier;">Zone</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier;">, by Mathias Enard - for the </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: courier;">Times Lit Supp</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier;"> back in 2016. And many subsequent Fitzcarraldo publications carried a pull-quote from that review at the back, which caused me no end of satisfaction.) </span></b></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>And another cause for celebration at Fitzcarraldo: <span style="background-color: white;">Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams’s collaborative novel<em> </em></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;"><em><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3Dafd403dc88%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1668256876922000&usg=AOvVaw3tJ7jiPVZxkPvOVB7sqHVW" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=afd403dc88&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Diego Garcia</span></a></em></span><span style="background-color: white;"> was earlier this week awarded the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3Dbb5143ee56%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1668256876922000&usg=AOvVaw1mDbqsUHTywVGLUSbepKWx" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=bb5143ee56&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">2022 Goldsmiths Prize</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white;">. Here's a lightly-edited version of the publisher's press release, with acknowedgements:</span></b></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div style="color: #202020; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /><span style="color: black;">Chair of judges, Tim Parnell, said: ‘By turns, funny, moving, and angry, <em>Diego Garcia</em> is as compelling to read as it is intricately wrought. For Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams collaboration is both method and politics. Against the dogmatism of the single-voiced fiction that informed the British government’s expulsion of the Chagossian people from their homeland, they respond not only with rigorous critique, but also with an understanding of the relationship between voice and power which shapes the very form of <em>Diego Garcia</em>. A marvellous book which extends the scope of the novel form.’<br /><br />Ali Smith, one of this year’s judges and the winner of the prize in 2014, said that at the novel’s heart ‘is an experiment with form that asks what fiction is, what art is for, and how, against the odds, to make visible, questionable and communal the structures, personal and political, of contemporary society, philosophy, lived history’.</span><br /><br /><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3D6959c36ca7%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1668256876922000&usg=AOvVaw1Lrm2iq5DNRAWZN1vZBBW8" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=6959c36ca7&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Writing in the <em>New Statesman</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">, fellow judge Tom Gatti added: ‘Despite its singular and unrepeatable form, <em>Diego Garcia</em> is not a closed book. At every juncture connections are drawn and doors flung open. Political narratives are questioned, social structures reimagined and, in this exhilarating, generous novel, the act of storytelling is made new.’<br /><span><br />The 2022 Goldsmiths Prize judging panel consisted of Ali Smith, Natasha Brown (author of <em>Assembly</em>, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize 2021), Tom Gatti (executive editor, culture, at the <em>New Statesman</em>) and chair of judges Tim Parnell (director of the Goldsmiths Prize and senior lecturer in English at Goldsmiths). <br /><br />The Goldsmiths Prize was launched in association with the <em>New Statesman</em> in 2013 with the goal of celebrating the spirit of creative daring associated with Goldsmiths as a university, and to reward fiction that breaks the mould and extends the possibilities of the novel form. </span>Previous winners include Eimear McBride, Mike McCormack, Nicola Barker, Lucy Ellmann and M. John Harrison. </span></b></span><br /></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">4. Street Writing Woman: A Tribute to Laura Del-Rivo<u></u> </span></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">My friend the novelist Cathi Unsworth sends details of an event she's taking part in at the end of this month.</span></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The Electric Cinema, 191 Portobello Road W11 2ED<u></u> </span></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Featuring a rare screening of Michael Winner’s <i>West 11</i> (1963) adapted </span></span></b><b style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">from Laura’s first novel <i>The Furnished Room</i> (1961)</span></span></b></div><div style="background-color: white;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><u></u></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><u></u><u></u></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Plus </span></span></b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">introductory talk and Q&A with special guests, and the chance to buy Laura’s novels from Holland Park Press and Five Leaves Press<u></u> </span></span></b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></b></span></span></b></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"><b><span lang="EN-US">Sunday 27 November 2pm-4.30pm</span></b></span></span></b></b></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u></span></span></b></b></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><p style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">A true writer of the streets, Laura Del-Rivo (1934-2022) was known to most of her friends around Portobello Road as ‘the tights lady’ – a market stall purveyor of the finest, most eye-catching hosiery in West London. Though her ever-stylish appearance held clues, few people realised she had led a literary double life. <u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">That, back in 1961, the publication of her debut novel <b><i>The Furnished Room</i> </b>marked the debut of Britain’s first female beatnik author – a young, convent-educated woman who had escaped from the stockbroker belt in Surrey to pitch up at 24 Chepstow Villas W11 – where she lived alongside budding actors, fighting artists and original Angry Young Man, Colin Wilson. <u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The book – an epochal evocation of existentialist rebels, art students, conmen and petty crooks mixing it up at bottle parties in a Rachmanesque Ladbroke Grove – had scarcely hit the shelves before it was optioned by ambitious local film director Michael Winner, who turned it into his first major feature in 1963.<u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">As a tribute to Laura, who sadly packed up her barrow and left her furnished room for the last time on 30 March 2022, her family and friends invite you to join us for a screening of <b><i>West 11</i></b> and a celebration of her life at the epicentre of Portobello Road, the Electric Cinema, on 27 November 2022 at 2pm. <u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">As well as the chance to see Winner’s film on the big screen, there will be talks and a Q&A featuring special guests, author and Colin Wilson archivist Colin Stanley and local writer Cathi Unsworth. There will also be the chance to furnish your own room with Laura’s books from Holland Park Press and Five Leaves Press, including rare editions of her ’80s Grove classic <b><i>Speedy and Queen Kong</i></b>.<u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>NB THIS IS AN AFTERNOON EVENT!</span></b></div><div style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Tickets are £15, available from</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.electriccinema.co.uk/film/west-11-1963-followed-by-live-qa/film-times/all&source=gmail&ust=1666442762444000&usg=AOvVaw3zpsDOarPy70884CM6Ysv-" href="http://www.electriccinema.co.uk/film/west-11-1963-followed-by-live-qa/film-times/all" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.electriccinema.co.uk/film/<wbr></wbr>west-11-1963-followed-by-live-<wbr></wbr>qa/film-times/all</a><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">More on Laura: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.lauradelrivo.com&source=gmail&ust=1666442762444000&usg=AOvVaw0p0wIojKNFUZTxdvsxTm2V" href="http://www.lauradelrivo.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.lauradelrivo.com</a></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><u></u> <u></u></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/in-memoriam-laura-del-rivo/&source=gmail&ust=1666442762444000&usg=AOvVaw2V4SWiaQws2aeKmbW23U-C" href="http://www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/in-memoriam-laura-del-rivo/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>in-memoriam-laura-del-rivo/</a><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/books/where-is-my-mask-of-an-honest-man/&source=gmail&ust=1666442762444000&usg=AOvVaw2Vtjt6yRDbbCgpUqqHpATV" href="http://www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/books/where-is-my-mask-of-an-honest-man/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>books/where-is-my-mask-of-an-<wbr></wbr>honest-man/</a><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/authors/laura-del-rivo/&source=gmail&ust=1666442762444000&usg=AOvVaw0Zkc8jHYchX_qVDnR4RS-i" href="https://www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/authors/laura-del-rivo/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.hollandparkpress.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>authors/laura-del-rivo/</a><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/laura-del-rivo-back-in-black/&source=gmail&ust=1666442762444000&usg=AOvVaw1WIM9jHdM8-XW5U82eM8JX" href="http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/laura-del-rivo-back-in-black/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.3ammagazine.com/3am/laura-<wbr></wbr>del-rivo-back-in-black/</a><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.londonfictions.com/laura-del-rivo-the-furnished-room.html%255C&source=gmail&ust=1666442762444000&usg=AOvVaw2YlEdBu2-bLQjs2UpEMqzE" href="http://www.londonfictions.com/laura-del-rivo-the-furnished-room.html%5C" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.londonfictions.com/laura-<wbr></wbr>del-rivo-the-furnished-room.<wbr></wbr>html\</a><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fiveleaves.co.uk&source=gmail&ust=1666442762444000&usg=AOvVaw0wOG4mdMsQRcf0jDs2UWL-" href="https://fiveleaves.co.uk/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://fiveleaves.co.uk</a><u></u> <u></u></span></span></p><div class="yj6qo"></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>5. Lost in the Willows</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>I was pleased to hear this week from the actor Robert Cohen, who </b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>played Captain Ahab (and quite brilliantly) in a one-off performance of Orson Welles's drama <i>Moby Dick Rehearsed </i>which I organised to mark the bicentenary of Melville's birth<i>. </i>There's more about that on my website:<span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><a href="https://davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site/general-8-2">https://david<span style="background-color: white;">jcollard.wixsite.com/my-site/general-8-2</span></a></b></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white;"><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Robert is appearing in <i>Lost in the Willows</i> at the<span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span><b><span style="color: #0f354b; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Drayton Arms </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #0f354b; font-family: courier;">Theatre, London, SW5 0LJ on </span><span style="color: #0f354b; font-family: courier;">Sunday 13th November 2022 and that (checks notes) is tonight. Apologies for very short notice! </span></span></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span> </span><span> </span>Doors open at 7:20pm. Play starts 7:30</span></div><div><span style="background-color: #f5f4ea; color: #0f354b; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Loss and loneliness stalked Kenneth Grahame, the author of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Wind in the Willows</em>. This play is a poignant, moving and often funny examination of the life and relationships of this beloved children's author.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #777777; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lost in the Willows</em> is the second collaboration between the director Margot Jobbins and playwright Christine Foster. </span></b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Starring with Robert are <span style="background-color: transparent;">Neil James (</span><em style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">God of Carnage</em><span style="background-color: transparent;">), Abi McLoughlin (</span><em style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">Confessional</em><span style="background-color: transparent;">)</span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> and Laura Fausner (</span><em style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box;">The Railway Children</em><span style="background-color: transparent;">)</span></b></p><div><a href="https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/153-old-brompton-road/drayton-arms-theatre/lost-in-the-willows/2022-11-13/19:30/t-zzzlqrz"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/153-old-brompton-road/drayton-arms-theatre/lost-in-the-willows/2022-11-13/19:30/t-zzzlqrz</span></a></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">6. Ghosts at the Old Library</span></b><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">, </span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">an event I'm involved with here in Manchester.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Ghosts at the Old Library </b>is a Christmas ghost story project involving Glue Factory stalwart Richard V. Skinner and three other authors, who have been commissioned to write brand new festive ghost stories which they will be reading at an atmospheric performance at Levenshulme Old Library, a former Carnegie library building in South Manchester. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The building will be lit by lanterns and a separate space in the building will each be allocated to each author. The audience will then be split into small groups and led from one room to the next, hearing each story in full. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">As well as Richard you can hear stories from Adam Farrer, Melissa Wan, and the emerging writer Marie Crook.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Tickets are available here: <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ghosts-at-the-old-library-tickets-438899037837&source=gmail&ust=1666772821915000&usg=AOvVaw16pDyLqoTPOl4c9AfgHmGy" href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ghosts-at-the-old-library-tickets-438899037837" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>e/ghosts-at-the-old-library-<wbr></wbr>tickets-438899037837</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>7. </b></span><b>Queer: LGBTQ writing from ancient times to yesterday</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNxcdranEFxhHTXbg-RbZ_pwpAOBmsCHYWEalEcWqcpeGkXzCr7NT3O6sy6XCOAREa6xJ4aeWPmAGDK-t_XXmQcYYoWp_9M1uko7nfN1mSxTMgKxEQ2OtvXKEX_hThcTyuo1i9QOeubmGiQaaCrmpCacH7sFk913DYF5kWmi09KTkorElW6n3S5W5aPA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1214" data-original-width="910" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNxcdranEFxhHTXbg-RbZ_pwpAOBmsCHYWEalEcWqcpeGkXzCr7NT3O6sy6XCOAREa6xJ4aeWPmAGDK-t_XXmQcYYoWp_9M1uko7nfN1mSxTMgKxEQ2OtvXKEX_hThcTyuo1i9QOeubmGiQaaCrmpCacH7sFk913DYF5kWmi09KTkorElW6n3S5W5aPA" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>There's a new edition of this superb anthology, edited by Frank Wynne. It hasm, he says, 'a new cover, (fewer typos)' and is, he adds, 'the ideal Christmas gift for queer friends, partners and allies, or for that “ I’m not homophobic, but…” uncle/aunt/neighbour/colleague. </b></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Order from House of Zeus here: </b></span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/HoZ_Books" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>@HoZ_Books</b></span></a><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; color: #0f1419; flex-direction: row; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Fun facts: not only was this anthology launched at our online gathering Carthorse Orchestra last year, but its editor Frank Wynne was the very first guest on the very first online event, A Leap in the Dark, back in March 2020, when he talked about his translation of <i>Animalia</i>, the French novel by </b></span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Jean-Baptiste Del Amo </b></span></span><b style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;">which won the Republic of Consciousness prize that year.</b></span><span class="r-18u37iz" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; color: #0f1419; flex-direction: row; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i><br /></i></span></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>8. MA/MFA in Creative Writing at City University</b></span></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 23px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">Two upcoming events for anyone interested in studying on the MA or MFA Creative Writing at </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/CityUniLondon" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@CityUniLondon</a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Wednesday 16th Nov at the Clerkenwell campus: </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/l9ncQty1hr" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>city.ac.uk/news-and-event<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">s/events/2022/november/postgraduate-journalism-open-evening</span><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-lrvibr r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: none; white-space: inherit;">…</span></a><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Wednesday 23rd Nov online: </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/ik23n4zhb2" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>city.ac.uk/prospective-st<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">udents/open-events-and-fairs/online-chats/postgraduate-online-events</span><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-lrvibr r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: none; white-space: inherit;">…</span></a></b></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>
</b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Jonathan Gibbs (who teaches these courses) will be taking part in both!</b></span><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 23px;"><br /></span></span><div><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">9. This week's Wendy Erskine news</span></b></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>No newsletter is complete without news of Wendy Erskine, and this week's edition is no exception.</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>So. We are delighted and honoured to announce that Wendy will be taking part in our annual live online pantomime on Tuesday 27th December, along with an all-star cast. This year's production (a fund-raiser for The Trussell Trust as usual) will be PETER PAN, adapetd from the original play by J. M. Barrie.</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>You'll never guess who Wendy plays. Further details and a complete cast in next Sunday's newsletter...</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><br /></div><div><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://email.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/t/d-l-zvydiy-kuhrljkuh-jd/&source=gmail&ust=1667997977887000&usg=AOvVaw2VjUhXJrrgAONiygHEAu-T" href="https://email.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/t/d-l-zvydiy-kuhrljkuh-jd/" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>10. Close Readings at the LRB! 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margin: 0px 0px 1px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Thursday 15 December at 7 p.m.<br />In-person and online</a></span><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="m_-6635850015465024384spacer" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; height: 10pxpx; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; table-layout: fixed; vertical-align: top; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr style="padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><td height="10px" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b> </b></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="m_-6635850015465024384article-text" style="line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="color: #39524f; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://email.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/t/d-l-zvydiy-kuhrljkuh-tl/&source=gmail&ust=1667997977888000&usg=AOvVaw1SMbhUaAX0Ii4u6Ske4vLS" href="https://email.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/t/d-l-zvydiy-kuhrljkuh-tl/" style="color: #39524f; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Close Readings</a>, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry’s series of <em>LRB </em>podcasts about 20th century poets, has become a slow-burning cult hit of which the <em>Times </em>wrote, in a five-star review: ‘Two intelligent people are left alone to talk about the subject they love … revolutionary.’</span></p><p style="color: #39524f; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 1em;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">For the final episode of their second season, they’ll discuss Eliot, Pound and <em>The Waste Land</em> live on the centenary of the poem’s publication in book form. Join them in person or online for the last bookshop event of the year, the closing conversation in our 1922 series, and a live podcasting occasion that is unlikely to be repeated.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/close-readings" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Close Readings</a>, Mark Ford and Seamus Perry’s series of LRB podcasts about 20th century poets, has become a slow-burning cult hit of which the Times wrote, in a five-star review: ‘Two intelligent people are left alone to talk about the subject they love … revolutionary.’</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">For the final episode of their second season, they’ll discuss Eliot, Pound and <em style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0px;">The Waste Land</em>, live, on the centenary of the poem’s publication in book form. Join them in person or online for the last bookshop event of the year, the closing conversation in our 1922 series, and a live podcasting occasion that is unlikely to be repeated. They may also mention what they’ve got planned for season three.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; padding-top: 0px;">*PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT WILL TAKE PLACE BOTH AT THE BOOKSHOP AND ONLINE*</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/close-readings-live-mark-ford-and-seamus-perry-on-the-waste-land-tickets-430930503737?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20221108%20Bookshop%20Events%20Newsletter&utm_content=20221108%20Bookshop%20Events%20Newsletter+CID_ed3f3c7ebb46a283ef1eeb6f14525ac3&utm_source=Bookshop%20email&utm_term=Close%20Readings%20Live%20Mark%20Ford%20and%20Seamus%20Perry%20on%20The%20Waste%20Land" style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/close-readings-live-mark-ford-and-seamus-perry-on-the-waste-land-tickets-430930503737?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20221108%20Bookshop%20Events%20Newsletter&utm_content=20221108%20Bookshop%20Events%20Newsletter+CID_ed3f3c7ebb46a283ef1eeb6f14525ac3&utm_source=Bookshop%20email&utm_term=Close%20Readings%20Live%20Mark%20Ford%20and%20Seamus%20Perry%20on%20The%20Waste%20Land</a></p><div style="color: #39524f; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;"><br /></span></div></span></th></tr></tbody></table></th></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>11. Shocking filler</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Stumped for gift ideas? </b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Multiple Joyce: 100 short essays about James Joyce's cultural legacy</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Published in Dublin on 16th June (Bloomsday) this year, this is the only book about the author's cultural legacy you're likely to need.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLbG40OZtfSKXGn41LkaxxR42mMyEn3_e2-H2ZgqUYk3Y7fsiDARDWj2BBJR5QCbdihGQEXtem2Y4b6J8fQnuhsOjlOjsARs0yMD6k1QiuCqUoTvw45PpMx-3u_1r63U8icHAwXHJajPtx4GVdhFW9LMKIUVZAvYLtGtQU0rTdJrbSq1_473FwtJlgvw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLbG40OZtfSKXGn41LkaxxR42mMyEn3_e2-H2ZgqUYk3Y7fsiDARDWj2BBJR5QCbdihGQEXtem2Y4b6J8fQnuhsOjlOjsARs0yMD6k1QiuCqUoTvw45PpMx-3u_1r63U8icHAwXHJajPtx4GVdhFW9LMKIUVZAvYLtGtQU0rTdJrbSq1_473FwtJlgvw" width="164" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>The first review to appear was by Nuala O'Connor, and it's the one I find I've committed to memory. </b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">You can read it here, and I hope you do: </b></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://booksirelandmagazine.com/playfulness-punning-and-pathos-multiple-joyce-by-david-collard/">https://booksirelandmagazine.com/playfulness-punning-and-pathos-multiple-joyce-by-david-collard/</a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>And something else to enjoy over breakfast (if you're in Britain): Lori Soderlind's review in </b></span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/books/review/gary-indiana-david-collard-charles-baxter.html"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>The New York Times.</i></b></span></a></div><div><b style="color: #212529;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span><span> </span></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Get one here: </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="goog_1347812972"><br /></a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/">https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/</a></span></b></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>12. Next week's online gathering</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>On Sunday 20th November our special guest is the poet, broadcaster, academic and national treasure Michael Rosen, who will be talking about his role as editor of the recently-published Johnson/Rees-Mogg correspondence.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>And we'll be marking the centenary of the publication in English of Ludwig Wittgenstein's <i>Tractatus Logico-philosophicus</i> in the company of the philosopher Jim Hopkins and the poet and historian Richard Barnett. I'll share some thoughts on the life, work and legacy of the remarkable Frank Ramsey, translator of the original, and we'll have film and music with a Wittgensteinian theme.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>13. Nudge</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Here's a particular message from the Trussell Trust foodbank in my home town </b><b><a href="https://twitter.com/SouthendFoodBan">https://twitter.com/SouthendFoodBan</a> serving the City of Southend-on-Sea: Southchurch, Westcliff-on-Sea, Leigh-on-Sea, Rochford, Hockley, Thorpe Bay & Shoeburyness.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>I was born in Rochford and grew up in Prittlewell (Southend became a City following the murder of the local MP Sir David Amess, and a less likely place for such status I can't imagine.)</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1s2bzr4" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 12px 0px 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__z5abhbm2fr" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b>The top 5 most items the Southend food bank needs this week are:
<br /></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__z5abhbm2fr" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b><span> </span>UHT milk
<span> </span>Tinned Fruit
<span> </span>Tinned Meatballs
<span> </span>Tinned Tomatoes
<span> </span>Jam
<br /></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__z5abhbm2fr" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b>They add: "90% of all the food we give out is donated by the community, but increasingly we are needing to buy essentials, so every item donated makes a difference." </b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__z5abhbm2fr" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__z5abhbm2fr" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b>I expect every food bank has other weekly lists - check your local branch and you may wish to donate in kind, rather than in cash.</b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__z5abhbm2fr" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-1blvdjr r-16dba41 r-vrz42v r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__z5abhbm2fr" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b>Thank you!</b>
</span><br /><span class="r-18u37iz" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row; font-size: 23px;"></span></div></div></div></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><b>https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/</b></a></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-75584523619141196182022-11-06T00:03:00.007+00:002022-11-06T00:03:56.775+00:00Newsletter 57<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>Hello again.</b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>A note to start to let you know that in common with many I'm moving away from Twitter.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>I've set up a Mastodon account and, stay the time of writing have one follower. More would be very welcome and if you're on the mailing list for this newsletter I hope you'll be among them.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; white-space: nowrap;"> <a href="https://mastodon.social/invite/wdoKuQ2r"><b>https://mastodon.social/invite/wdoKuQ2r</b></a></span></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="background-color: white;"><span><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small; white-space: nowrap;"><b>I'll continue to use Twitter for the time being, to share newsletter links and to promote </b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>The Glue Factory </b></span></span></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; white-space: nowrap;">until the gatherings end in December. But I may shut down </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">my account before then if the site becomes unendurable.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mastodon is not as user friendly as Twitter, at least not for this newcomer, but - </span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">how best to put this? - there's a room in the elephant.</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small; white-space: nowrap;"><b>Now, by way of a change to the usual header here's the Brazilian flag.</b></span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: nowrap;"> </b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgk_WbD5wdsnURFOIlnp3Hr2Ghde6bYgqKlC1-4guZyBgegZAw0f8TxMOASL_wWlHD2jaqFUOlnvo2gGYU74N33dJs5yGpYX-KC0fzQfxeA5XKn0d-EyE3X4rypxOFrShmbtCqj32NkFxIbG0FunVt8zE7d2hbdzWdSbhylYX3tRajlwYGwcBkeg6yfeQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="199" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgk_WbD5wdsnURFOIlnp3Hr2Ghde6bYgqKlC1-4guZyBgegZAw0f8TxMOASL_wWlHD2jaqFUOlnvo2gGYU74N33dJs5yGpYX-KC0fzQfxeA5XKn0d-EyE3X4rypxOFrShmbtCqj32NkFxIbG0FunVt8zE7d2hbdzWdSbhylYX3tRajlwYGwcBkeg6yfeQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">It's always been a favourite flag, and only partly because it resembles the lovely </span></b><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Universal Studios logo from the 1930s...</span></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJCbTbToNo2ScKHHXiGDxEzFwuBsDp99IuV-jIfG3mYLfHWviMwgCHKcG1M1KhZsUaTvcq89SD7XrGI2ftDI-IFhh0uDWqTcYdQUVNzpnTpFzpNtZs-Qa7WQm1KkUVyjkb2TX2ifCC1AsCxk91m0q9NJMjHSyVM9ICXdmeNl4c5rSyIfJ3Xc_OJ_5_rg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="196" data-original-width="257" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiJCbTbToNo2ScKHHXiGDxEzFwuBsDp99IuV-jIfG3mYLfHWviMwgCHKcG1M1KhZsUaTvcq89SD7XrGI2ftDI-IFhh0uDWqTcYdQUVNzpnTpFzpNtZs-Qa7WQm1KkUVyjkb2TX2ifCC1AsCxk91m0q9NJMjHSyVM9ICXdmeNl4c5rSyIfJ3Xc_OJ_5_rg" width="315" /></a></div><br /></span></b><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small; white-space: nowrap;"><b>More on this in the postscript at the end of this week's newsletter.</b></span></span></span></p><div><br /></div><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"> </span><b style="color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">Newsletter contents</b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. This week’s online gathering </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Curlew Editions</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> Handheld Press</span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span><span> </span><span> Influx Press</span><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span><span><span> </span><span> Penhaligon Press</span><br /></span></span></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>4. This week's Wendy Erskine news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>5. <i> </i>This week's other Wendy Erskine news:<i> Dance Move</i> on the BBC</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span>6. <i>Dracula: the Untold Story</i></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span><i><br /></i></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span>7.<i> </i>Theatre for a quid!</span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>8. </b><b> </b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>The Observer / Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism </b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>9. <i>Punks Listen</i> - a new anthology</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>10. Shocking filler 🧦🧦🧦</b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span></b></span><b> </b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>11. Next week's online gathering</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>12. Nudge</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>13. PS</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Take a look at item 9 below - some good work going on there.</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small;"><span class="s1" style="color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>T</b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>he most far-reaching aid programme has been, and remains, the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. </b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>You can donate quickly and easily </b></span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here.</span></a></b></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Please</b><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> donate whatever you can, whenever you can.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Thank you.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">2. This week’s online gathering</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>AS second Sidekick Books showcase with publisher Jon Stone and guests</b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;">Lotte Mitchell Reford, </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;">Julia Rose Lewis, </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;">Lara Frankena, </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;">Adam Crothers, </b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;">Belle Roach and </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;">Vika Gusak<span class="Apple-converted-space"> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Plus two remarkable artists -<span style="background-color: transparent;"> Ximena Perez Grobet from Mexico on her nine-year project Reading <i>Finnegans Wake, </i>and two short lyrical films by<i> </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent;">Rose Ruane in Glasgow.</span></span></b></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Curlew Editions</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">Every year since 2015 my son has given me the latest volume of <i>The Winter Papers</i>,</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and in-conversation pieces on writing, film, theatre, photography and music. </span></b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Calluna, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Edited by Kevin Barry and Olivia Smith, this year's edition features (big breath)</b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><div>Kevin Barry Bog Cottage Jonathan Brennan Liam Cagney Cathal Coughlan </div><div>Jane Deasy Adrian Duncan Christine Dwyer Hickey Gareth Evans </div><div>Elaine Garvey David Hayden Caoilinn Hughes Dragana Jurišić</div><div>Siobhán Kane Ronan Kelly Joe Lawlor Joanne Laws Brian Leyden</div><div>Ian Maleney Louise Manifold Rosaleen McDonagh Tara McEvoy </div><div>Belinda McKeon Jess Mc Kinney Christine Molloy Peter Murphy</div><div>Philip Ó Ceallaigh and Jessica Traynor</div><div><br /></div><div>Each year the latest edition offers weeks of </div></b></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Order a copy (and back issues) <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://shop.winterpapers.com/product/volume-8">here.</a></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Handheld Press</span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><div class="event-details__main-inner" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #39364f; flex: 1 1 0%; margin: auto; padding-left: calc(3*var(--base-unit)); padding-right: calc(3*var(--base-unit));"><h1 class="event-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1e0a3c; line-height: 4rem; margin-bottom: calc(4*var(--base-unit)); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Handheld Press invites you to the book launch of the works of forgotten Welsh author and RAF pilot John Llewelyn Rhys (1906-1940). His two novels and posthumous collection of short stories will be republished in two volumes on 15th November. <em style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-top: 0px;">The Flying Shadow </em>(1936), his taut first novel about a flying instructor trying to stop his pupils killing themselves in the air, has an introduction by UCL lecturers Luke Seaber and Dan Kilburn. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">England Is My Village, and The World Owes Me a Living</em> (1939, 1941) republishes Rhys's last novel and the collection of his short stories assembled by his widow, the novelist Jane Oliver (Helen Rees), which won the Hawthornden Prize in 1942. The introduction for this volume is by Luke and Handheld's Kate Macdonald.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Join Handheld Press for drinks, snacks, short talks and an opportunity to buy the books and chat to Luke and Dan.</span></p></h1></div><section aria-labelledby="when-and-where" class="event-details__section" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: calc(6*var(--base-unit));"><div class="event-details__main-inner" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; margin: auto; padding-left: calc(3*var(--base-unit)); padding-right: calc(3*var(--base-unit));"><div class="detail-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; 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display: inline-block;"><b>Free - RSVP </b></span></time><span style="color: #6f7287;"><b>https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/handheld-press-book-launch-for-john-llewelyn-rhys-tickets-445171027527?utm_campaign=post_publish&utm_medium=email&utm_source=eventbrite&utm_content=shortLinkNewEmail</b></span></div></div></section><section aria-labelledby="location-heading" class="detail" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; display: flex; flex-basis: 50%; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 56px; position: relative;"><div class="detail__content" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: calc(2*var(--base-unit)); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p></div></section></div></div></section></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">Influx Press</span></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.34px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">Influx Press has scooped <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i>Dr No</i></span>, a new novel by Booker-shortlisted author Percival Everett and announced an indefinite hiatus on acquisitions after 2023.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.34px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">Publisher Kit Caless acquired UK rights for Dr No from Graywolf Press, for release in March 2023. </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.34px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">"<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dr No</span> is another masterwork from Everett, whose literary purple patch sees no sign of stopping," the publisher has said. "A satirical caper of supervillains, farce and pastiche, with a philosophical enquiry into the meaning of nothing, <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dr No</span> is also a commentary on race and power in the US." </p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.34px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">In 2023 Influx will also be publishing more of Everett’s backlist including<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Assumption</span>, the Pulitzer-nominated <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Telephone</span>, and <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">So Much Blue</span>. Everett was shortlisted for the Booker Prize this year with <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Trees </span>(Influx Press).</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.34px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">The Everett titles are part of a scaled back publishing programme for Influx as a planned acquisitions hiatus comes into effect from November 2022. Founder Gary Budden and Caless have decided, after 10 years, to take a step back from publishing to pursue other life and professional goals, and will not be acquiring new titles for the foreseeable future. The press will remain a publishing house with current and backlist titles kept in print.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.34px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">Everett said: “It has been and remains a great pleasure to be published by Influx. The folks at Influx are interested in art and politics in equal measures and as necessarily and inextricably bound together. Their aesthetic pleases and I feel I am in good company.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1a1a1a; letter-spacing: 0.34px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;">Caless added: “I’d be insane not to continue publishing Percival’s work.”</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.34px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: red;">Penhaligon Press</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.34px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">Penhaligon Press is about to republish the third in its series of reissues of Nigel Balchin’s novels. This outstanding but sadly under-rated author featured on the Glue Factory earlier this year curated by Balchin expert and series editor Derek Collett, in conversation with Luke Seaber (an academic with a particular interest in the period when Balchin was a critically acclaimed best-seller. Derek has single-handedly manged a revival of this once hugely polular athor who deserves and repays discovery.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; letter-spacing: 0.34px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.34px; text-align: left;">The latest release, officially launched on Monday 7th November, is </span><i style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.34px; text-align: left;">In the Absence of Mrs Petersen</i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0.34px; text-align: left;">, an exciting 1960s thriller set in Hollywood, Paris, Venice and Belgrade. Priced at £9.99, the book can be purchased online or ordered from UK bookshops. Details on Derek's website: </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.nigelmarlinbalchin.co.uk&source=gmail&ust=1667779127094000&usg=AOvVaw2evlYabuieowXvHR9XYWEg" href="http://www.nigelmarlinbalchin.co.uk/" style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;" target="_blank">www.nigelmarlinbalchin.co.uk</a></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 20px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">_____________________</b></p></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>4. </b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">This week's Wendy Erskine news</b></div><div><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;">THE WORD FACTORY NEW STORY FESTIVAL:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;">As part of their<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;"> New Story</span> autumn programming celebrating radical writing and new voices, an evening of brilliant Word Factory conversation and reading with three of the UK's most innovative short story writers and novelists: Jessie Greengrass, Courtia Newland and Wendy Erskine, hosted by Cathy Galvin, who will also announce details of our renowned mentoring award, the <a href="https://thewordfactory.tv/word-factory-apprentice-award/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Word Factory Apprentice Award (2023)</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 0px 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; padding-top: 0px;"></span></p></span></b></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><div class="event-details__main-inner" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #39364f; flex: 1 1 0%; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 400; margin: auto; padding-left: calc(3*var(--base-unit)); padding-right: calc(3*var(--base-unit));"><p class="summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: calc(4*var(--base-unit)); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; word-break: break-word;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;">THE NEW STORY: an evening with Jessie Greengrass & Courttia Newland</span></p><div class="organizer-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin-bottom: calc(4*var(--base-unit)); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="organizer-info__group" style="-webkit-box-align: start; align-items: flex-start; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-bottom: calc(0.5*var(--base-unit)); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="organizer-info__name" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin-block: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div><div class="organizer-info__follow" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin-block: auto; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3rem; padding: 0px;"><span id="listings-root__follow-organizer_hero" style="-webkit-box-direction: reverse; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: end; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: row-reverse; justify-content: flex-end;"><div class="follow-organizer__follow-count" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 8px 0px 0px;"><br /></div></span></div></div></div></div><section aria-labelledby="when-and-where" class="event-details__section" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7287; font-family: "Neue Plak", -apple-system, "system-ui", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1rem; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5rem; margin-bottom: calc(6*var(--base-unit));"><div class="event-details__main-inner" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; margin: auto; padding-left: calc(3*var(--base-unit)); padding-right: calc(3*var(--base-unit));"><div class="detail-list" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: var(--base-unit);"><section aria-labelledby="date-time-heading" class="detail" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: 50%; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-right: 56px;"><div class="detail__content" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="date-and-time" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><time style="box-sizing: border-box;">Friday 11 November 2022, <span class="date-and-time__line-break" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;">18:30 – 20:00 GMT</span></time></div></div></section><section aria-labelledby="location-heading" class="detail" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: 50%; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 56px; position: relative;"><div class="detail__content" style="-webkit-box-flex: 1; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 1 1 0%; font-size: 0.875rem; line-height: 1.25rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: calc(2*var(--base-unit)); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The Swedenborg Society</span> 20-21 Bloomsbury Way London WC1A 2TH</p></div></section></div></div></section></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="goog_75219841"><br /></a></span></b></div><div><span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-story-presents-wendy-erskine-jessie-greengrass-courttia-newland-tickets-431867747057?aff=ebdsoporgprofile">Full details and tickets here</a></b></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><div style="background-color: white;"><br /></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><br /></div><div><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">5. This week's other Wendy Erskine news: Dance Move on the BBC</b></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>All five of Wendy Erskine's short stories as featured on Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime' in October are now available here on </b></span></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m001d562">BBC iPlayer</a></b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">, all read </b></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>- quite brilliantly - by </b></span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Roisin Gallagher:</b></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Mrs Dallesandro</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Dance Move</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Bildungsroman</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Nostalgie</b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Secrets Bonita Beach Krystal Cancun</b></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">More Wendy Erskine news next week, probably...</span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>6. Dracula: the Untold Story</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Thanks to all those who joined the audience last Monday for a shared Hallowe'en screening of this award-winning stage production, designed by Laura Hopkins (who introduced the evening). </b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuNWrowcofVPLvBetf3r5dQR6jq6NvOostHhi4XdI0pD6_dcNqhhLfm15_alKNCfOfp6u7Hr3JZiVIVYMu_W09Ilc_PMNRMVYBCHER9KBa7x8Uv5gMA0a2bqn5OFZFyDAh2AJ_RgNiEj39A7-YZUyE7ZXPkQhWMdaxOgXYtTRdLrifFgEm72tXO6KCaQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1298" data-original-width="2130" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhuNWrowcofVPLvBetf3r5dQR6jq6NvOostHhi4XdI0pD6_dcNqhhLfm15_alKNCfOfp6u7Hr3JZiVIVYMu_W09Ilc_PMNRMVYBCHER9KBa7x8Uv5gMA0a2bqn5OFZFyDAh2AJ_RgNiEj39A7-YZUyE7ZXPkQhWMdaxOgXYtTRdLrifFgEm72tXO6KCaQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBNEBCGlXlradBxiyrCyqXsYkN_KGOeU_b8TeYmtAgb2EY4l8-qU0cPb78GPSs85RPFl4eo9eNydKJGRilz_wXlnAqdoLAPxYuA38EFr3poF9xvFGiuny6fUZqtgH15JfnTkwk-__-zo5iJh-QdZMWm_GLdyATaDiaKusqekPVke_JcHQhufDT3gh_lg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="420" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBNEBCGlXlradBxiyrCyqXsYkN_KGOeU_b8TeYmtAgb2EY4l8-qU0cPb78GPSs85RPFl4eo9eNydKJGRilz_wXlnAqdoLAPxYuA38EFr3poF9xvFGiuny6fUZqtgH15JfnTkwk-__-zo5iJh-QdZMWm_GLdyATaDiaKusqekPVke_JcHQhufDT3gh_lg" width="320" /></a></div></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2LPJv5ULAOTtXoVoKdNIEUX6Gu8M995rY24RAv7y-nu3OqW3y4H6ur5M1DoU7v-TlNeTUyRtVU_aekKFH-d3rnuTUVvFGizBGElqvdh0NIg6cRCw6Mgb-420iJVrDhhPv5CL3FxqJoz_eVNyWPsXbtX11dEYYgjxLgmg4Pbi7tRUwAL9gAPoNpiHE_w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="474" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh2LPJv5ULAOTtXoVoKdNIEUX6Gu8M995rY24RAv7y-nu3OqW3y4H6ur5M1DoU7v-TlNeTUyRtVU_aekKFH-d3rnuTUVvFGizBGElqvdh0NIg6cRCw6Mgb-420iJVrDhhPv5CL3FxqJoz_eVNyWPsXbtX11dEYYgjxLgmg4Pbi7tRUwAL9gAPoNpiHE_w" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>If you missed it, you can now enjoy the amazing spectacle on YouTube </b></span><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QThLKrDBQWI">here</a>. </b></span><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>And read the Guardian review </b></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #2e2e2e; font-family: courier;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/10/dracula-the-untold-story-review-imitating-the-dog-leeds-playhouse">here.</a></b></span></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Laura won the 2022 uktheatre.org award for Best Design for her work on this production. She has a website full of wonderful images of her work in theatre and ceramics: <a href="http://laura.hopkins.co.uk">laura.hopkins.co.uk</a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">And - a glimmer of hope - the production company behind Dracula: the Untold Story, Imitating the Dog, this week secured ACE funding for the next three years. </span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">7. Theatre for a quid!</span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span><span><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-zl2h9q" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px 0px 2px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-k4xj1c r-18u37iz r-1wtj0ep" style="-webkit-box-align: start; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-box-pack: justify; align-items: start; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: row; flex-shrink: 0; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1d09ksm r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2" style="-webkit-box-align: baseline; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; align-items: baseline; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: row; flex-shrink: 1; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs r-1ny4l3l" data-testid="User-Names" id="id__psf2ir23gz" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; align-items: center; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: row; flex-shrink: 1; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; outline-style: none; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1awozwy r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; align-items: center; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: row; flex-shrink: 1; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><span style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: nowrap;"><b>Glue Factory stalwart Samuel Skooog announces '</b></span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;">small scratch performance and QA of his Work in Progress </span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><i>Nige</i></span><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;"> (alongside four other amazing artists), happening at The Cockpit Theatre 7pm this Monday, November 7th. That's tomorrow. </span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Be the first to see these brand new performances, new translations, new ideas - and give your feedback in an informal Q&A with the artists.</span></span><span style="color: #0f1419;"><br /></span><span style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;">Tickets are only £1!</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__vqn6uv04bx" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__vqn6uv04bx" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="color: black; white-space: normal;"><b>A man washes ashore on a desolate island inhabited by mannequins, and begins building a love story for himself… Inspired by the myth of Pygmalion and the true story of Nigel No-Mates: “the world’s loneliest seabird”, Nige is a meditation on the things we do to find companionship in the face of isolation.</b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__vqn6uv04bx" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; color: #1d1d1b; font-weight: 100; margin: 1.5em 0px; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: normal;">THE COCKPIT Gateforth street, London NW8 8EH</h2><div class="content" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d1d1b; white-space: normal;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px;">Box Office: 020 7258 2925</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px;">(10.30am - 6pm, Monday - Friday; 12 noon - 6pm, Saturday)</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; font-weight: 100; margin: 1.5em 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/your_visit" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4ad8c4; line-height: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; transition: border 0.3s ease 0s, color 0.3s ease 0s, background 0.3s ease 0s;">SEE MAP</a></h2></div></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__vqn6uv04bx" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><p style="color: black; margin: 15px 0px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The nearest stations are <strong>Edgware Road</strong> (Hammersmith & City, District, Circle, Bakerloo) and <strong>Marylebone </strong>(Bakerloo and main line). Both are about a 7 minute walk away.</span><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span></p></span></span></div></div></div></span></span></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">8. </span></b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: red;">The Observer / Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism</span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">This annual prize is open for entries until the end of this month. Pick a new show or book or whatever you want. Then rant about it. </span></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full details: </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/ZoY6IS9jUF" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>anthonyburgess.org/observeranthon<span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">y-burgess-prize-arts-journalism/</span><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-lrvibr r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: none; white-space: inherit;">…</span></a></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">9. Punks Listen</span></b></div><div><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 23px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">A new anthology compiled by Neill McGuirk and Michael Murphy in which n</span></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">early 300 artists, writers and musicians discuss the records that influenced them, including our very own </span></span></span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Rónán Hession</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;"> on Billy Bragg.</span></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's launched in Dublin this week, and all proceeds go to Red Cross Ukraine. Good work! </span></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>Full list of contributors and pre-order </span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://hopecollectiveireland.com/product/punks-listen/">here.</a></span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/hqv55mM6RF" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-size: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">ks-listen/?s=09</span></a></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>10. Shocking filler</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Stumped for gift ideas? </b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Multiple Joyce: 100 short essays about James Joyce's cultural legacy</i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Published in Dublin on 16th June (Bloomsday) this year, this is the only book about the author's cultural legacy you're ever likely to need. Perfect for all Joyceans or anyone with a taste for reading in a dilapidated jakes surrounded by spiders and decaying plaster.</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLbG40OZtfSKXGn41LkaxxR42mMyEn3_e2-H2ZgqUYk3Y7fsiDARDWj2BBJR5QCbdihGQEXtem2Y4b6J8fQnuhsOjlOjsARs0yMD6k1QiuCqUoTvw45PpMx-3u_1r63U8icHAwXHJajPtx4GVdhFW9LMKIUVZAvYLtGtQU0rTdJrbSq1_473FwtJlgvw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLbG40OZtfSKXGn41LkaxxR42mMyEn3_e2-H2ZgqUYk3Y7fsiDARDWj2BBJR5QCbdihGQEXtem2Y4b6J8fQnuhsOjlOjsARs0yMD6k1QiuCqUoTvw45PpMx-3u_1r63U8icHAwXHJajPtx4GVdhFW9LMKIUVZAvYLtGtQU0rTdJrbSq1_473FwtJlgvw" width="164" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Here are some notices:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: xx-small;">“A rare, delicious treat for readers, and a book that would have tickled Joyce, with its vibrant potpourri of playfulness, punning, and pathos…. I defy Joycean purists not to be totally beguiled by this absorbing, upfront, funny, erudite, and charming book.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: xx-small;"><span> </span>— Nuala O’Connor, in <a href="https://booksirelandmagazine.com/playfulness-punning-and-pathos-multiple-joyce-by-david-collard/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Books Ireland Magazine</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: xx-small;">“Simply charming…. His voice and his style are infectious…. Anybody who’s even remotely interested in Joyce should own this book.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: xx-small;"><span> </span>— Chris Via, in <a href="https://youtu.be/HivwpWEm8Ms" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Leaf by Leaf (video)</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: xx-small;">“Some of the 100 essays in this rowdy exhibit hall offer intriguing trivia; others provide literary insights, and readers of all interest levels will find something unexpected to contemplate. We may already know that Joyce wrote stories, plays and novels, one of which, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ulysses</em>, is considered by many to be ‘the greatest novel of all full stop.’ But were we aware that the Italian perfumer Mirko Buffini created a fragrance collection based on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Finnegans Wake</em>? Or that Joyce favored Borsalino hats, worn today by the likes of John Malkovich and Nicole Kidman? What has <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moby-Dick</em> got to do with Joyce, and why is that hyphen in the title? Collard will fill you in. These short essays exude infectious delight for a universe of such arcana.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: xx-small;"><span> </span>— Lori Soderlind, in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/books/review/gary-indiana-david-collard-charles-baxter.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">The New York Times Book Review</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: xx-small;">“This year being the centenary of the publication of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ulysses</em>, there has been a flurry of new books and republications…. But to my mind David Collard’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Multiple Joyce</em> is the most joyful and the most Joycean…. The strategy of the book … is to take bemusement seriously…. There is a real pleasure in reading a book about Joyce that actually makes you laugh.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: xx-small;"><span> </span>— Stuart Kelly, in <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/at-last-a-book-about-james-joyce-that-makes-you-laugh" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">The Spectator</a></span><b style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span><span> </span><span> </span></span></span></b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span></span></b></p></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Get one, or get several, here: </span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="goog_1347812972"><br /></a></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/">https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/</a></span></b></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>11. Next week's online gathering</b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>On Sunday 13th November we'll have an evening </b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">devoted to horror, Guignol and the grotesque.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> Vik Shirley returns to curate and will be reading from her new collection <i>Corpses</i>; </span></b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Madelaine Culver will perform poems written in response to the sci-fi horror film <i>Under the Skin; </i></b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Nicky Melville will share poems responding to films such as <i>Salem’s Lot</i> and<i> Scanners </i>and <i>The Dead Don’t Die;</i></b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></div><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b>Stephen Fowler will perform some Day of the Dead poems and </b><b>David Spittle (TBC) on Italian Horror/Giallo.</b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space">And continuing the macabre theme I'll be sharing my thoughts on Hitchcock's under-valued masterpiece <i>The Trouble with Harry, </i>a light romantic comedy... about necrophilia.<i>. .</i></span></b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; 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font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOC2l6ojj3vM4KUyUNeLYvHgqWgcTrwQUtIsMVOf284WjuVBGapch9EIb89DQefrExOrUZyrjlUzVFKOYzbjjs-u4mNGoLF_7-EYvjS1fhfns_2nSP8UGN-2OhllM9rDZ_XANWJm34Yz-E3v8Ux5W2k0w3WQrwGQiB2BLWBbL9_-mVvt43n_SLS8ATYg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1548" data-original-width="2822" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgOC2l6ojj3vM4KUyUNeLYvHgqWgcTrwQUtIsMVOf284WjuVBGapch9EIb89DQefrExOrUZyrjlUzVFKOYzbjjs-u4mNGoLF_7-EYvjS1fhfns_2nSP8UGN-2OhllM9rDZ_XANWJm34Yz-E3v8Ux5W2k0w3WQrwGQiB2BLWBbL9_-mVvt43n_SLS8ATYg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>12. Nudge</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Or rather three nudges. Please please please donate to The Trussell trust</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; text-align: justify;"><b>https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/</b></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><b>https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/</b></a></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><b>https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/</b></a></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Thank you.</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">13. PS</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> A note from George Monbiot prompted by revelations of the disgraceful conditions in what amounts to a concentration camp at Manston housing refugees:</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span> </span>How do you make voters feel better about their circumstances, without <span> </span><span> </span>actually improving their lives? You performatively mistreat other people, <span> </span>who have no vote, to show your voters that someone sits below them in the <span> </span>pecking order.</b></span></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> That's what Manston, and Braverman, are about.</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>And, in the words of Tony Benn: '</b></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The way a government treats its refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.'</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" />The new President of Brazil's slogan is <i>'sem medo de ser feliz'</i> (literally: 'without fear of being happy').</b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>I look at the mediocrities currently in control of my country and it strikes me that one of the many things they fear is happiness. This seems to be a condition of many of those on the Right. </b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>They have failed in their life at happiness; being happy themselves and being the cause of happiness in others. What brought them to such a condition may have been something in childhood or adolescence; unskilled parenting; a reaction to education, and to others; a lack of formative cultural and social and emotional experiences. Or perhaps that's just the way some people choose to become: callous, dull, conservative.</b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>I look at some of these elderly dead-eyed men and women (most of them born after 1980 and therefore, if improbably, still in their early 40s) and wonder what went wrong in this country and in their lives. </b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>Can you imagine having to endure lunch with any of them? Braverman? Sunak? Patel? Rees-Mogg? Fabricant? Dorries? Raab? Gove? Hancock? Can you picture your intense boredom and loathing and loss of appetite as they belch and dribble their way through a meal, honking their sullen commonplaces, their dull bigotry and glib simplistic takes on complex matters? Can you imagine feeling happy in their company?</b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>They all of them share a hatred of expertise and excellence. Having wrecked the civil service, the law, the BBC, the NHS, the economy and the sea that surrounds us, they have now turned their attention to the arts.</b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>This week Arts Council England (ACE), the government organisation responsible for funding theatres and museums and galleries and other cultural institutions, announced on Friday the cutting or axing of support for </b></span></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;">leading London arts companies, including the English National Opera and the Donmar Warehouse Theatre, both of which lost all their funding. And the Glyndebourne opera lost all funding for education and outreach, so only the well-heeled toffs will get to see and hear music performed there. (I'd never go to Glyndebourne in any case because there's a serious risk of bumping into the likes of Liz Truss). </b></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;">This is all entirely political. It was the farcically shallow and inadequate former Cultural Secretary Nadine Dorries who demanded a £70m cut from London from ACE. This is her only legacy.</b></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;">The total annual budget</b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"> ACE budget is, or was, £381m for 1 year.</b></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>That might seem a lot, but Rishi Sunak's ill-fated 'Eat out to help out' initiative to encourage people to have a subsidised nosh-up in restaurants during the pandemic cost £849m. For 1 month. </b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>And it led to a spike in covid cases, and many more deaths.</b></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"></span></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>So the government cuts the money supply to organisations dedicated to the spread of human happiness. Why? For the same reason that dogs lick their willies. Because they can.</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-64260217081663804532022-10-30T07:51:00.003+00:002022-10-30T10:55:52.231+00:00Newsletter 56<p><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">A reminder that I welcome suggestions for the final Glue Factory online gathering (which will be on Sunday 11th December). The show will feature recorded highlights from the entire series - so if there's something you missed, or would like to see again, do let me know. Thanks to all those who have already made suggestions - duly noted!</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">After this week we have six more shows, of which five are now programmed. They include an indie showcase from Sidekick Books; a night of the surreal and grotesque curated by Vik Shirley; Hitchcock's <i>The Trouble with Harry; </i>the centenary of the <i>Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus; </i>Michael Rosen on the Johnson/Mogg correspondence; OPLIPO (the Italian equivalent to the French Oulipo movement); adventures in apostasy; a forgotten friend of T S Eliot (and a newsworthy archive discovery); Beckett's sucking stones and Pasolini's poetry. All this and more. Do join us.</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">Newsletter contents</b></p><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. This week’s online gatherings </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>4. Beckett at Reading</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><b>5. </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>Samuel Beckett’s Visual Imagination</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>6. </b></span></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">T S Eliot Lecture 2022</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>7. Boniface klaxon</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>8. Shocking fillers</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">9. </b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>Professor Kulpana Shankar </b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>10. Tolka issue 4 launch</b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span><b> </b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>11. Next week's online gathering</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>12. Nudge</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>250 days of misery. </b></span><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Please give as much as you can, whenever you can. </b></span><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: small;"><span class="s1" style="color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>T</b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>he most far-reaching aid programme has been, and remains, the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. </b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>You can donate quickly and easily </b></span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here.</span></a></b></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Thank you.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">2. This week’s online gatherings</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;">Our annual Hallowe'en gathering and this year we welcome back as our guest curator the Chicago-based artist and writer Riva Lehrer (author of the prize-winning memoir <i>Golem Girl</i>) with her guests </b></b></b></b></b></span></b><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b style="text-align: justify;">Hayley Campbell (author of<i> The Living and the Dead)</i>, </b></b></b></b></b></span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;">Audrey</b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b> Niffenegger </b></span></span><b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;">(author of <i>The Time Traveller's Wife </i>and<i> Her Fearful Symmetry</i>), and the artist Landis Blair. </b></b></b></b></b></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;">They'll be joined by the Glasgow-based writer and artist Rose Ruane who will produce a unique artwork which will be offered for sale to the highest bidder at the end of the evening (with proceeds to The Trussell Trust). </b></b></b></b></b></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">And there's an </b><b style="font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: red;">extra show</span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"> on Hallowe'en night itself (Monday 31st October): an exclusive screening of<i> Dracula: the Untold Story, </i>the acclaimed stage production<i> </i>introduced by Laura Hopkins, who last week won the 2022 uktheatre.org award for Best Design. </b></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">‘a technically flawless and thrillingly ingenious take on Bram Stoker’s vampire classic’ - <i>The Stage</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Read the <i>Guardian</i> review </b></span><b style="color: #2e2e2e; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/oct/10/dracula-the-untold-story-review-imitating-the-dog-leeds-playhouse">here.</a></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>I spent the past two days at Conway Hall in Holborn, home to the revived Small Publishers Fair. It's the first such event in three years thanks to the pandemic and it was a wonderful thing to be back in this lovely building and to spend time with the 70+ indie publishers taking part.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Highlights?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>- a reading by Natalia Zagorska-Thomas on her forthcoming book <i>The Camden Hoard</i>, a collaboration with Charles Boyle and featuring contributions from the likes of Will Eaves, Julian Stannard, Amy McCauley, Gavin Clarke, Kevin Boniface and illustrious others.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>- a fascinating exhibition by poet/writer/performer S J Fowler (a Glue Factory guest earlier this month), showcasing his extraordinarily productive career over the past decade.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>- an object, nine years in the making, by the Mexican artist Ximena Perez Grober, who shredded a 1965 Faber edition of <i>Finnegans Wake</i> then knitted the shreds together into a unique artwork. See her website </b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.ximenaperezgrobet.com/">here.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>- newcomers Tenement Press with a terrific display of their striking bright yellow books </b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://tenementpress.com/">https://tenementpress.com/</a> and</b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b> a very powerful reading by Cristina Viti of her forthcoming translations of Pasolini's poetry (all entirely new to me) </b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://tenementpress.com/La-rabbia">https://tenementpress.com/La-rabbia</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>- Nicholas Royle of Nightjar Press, who kindly gave me a copy of his new short story collection </b></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.confingopublishing.uk/product-page/manchester-uncanny"><i>Manchester Uncanny</i></a> (Confingo Press) and</b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><i> </i>Vik Shirley </b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">(many thanks to her for a copy of her darkly witty new collection </b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/corpses">Corpses</a></b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><i>, </i>published by Sublunary Editions, which will feature on The Glue Factory next month). </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">- David Henningham (below) of Henningham Family Press, who introduced a reading by HFP author Claire Allen from her novel<i> <a href="https://www.henninghamfamilypress.co.uk/books/the-blackbird/">The Blackbird</a>.</i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWSVh4HoHTeYIzCdCQBEaxkKHcAxC5CEGGQiHoDqsQFJzU4vmirNBW44UrgZgz34ovbZ3aImG1yiYeUhuXqHZSYSg_YfnbO5aRAzz7Hf4Af-cQiYdmzplj2ITEoWro9s3UJJhZqbj53W1fAiQ2QaN2pdAGYzOPMvDC4qDzRhfeoeFDkDwFAxD7i67dvg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="656" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhWSVh4HoHTeYIzCdCQBEaxkKHcAxC5CEGGQiHoDqsQFJzU4vmirNBW44UrgZgz34ovbZ3aImG1yiYeUhuXqHZSYSg_YfnbO5aRAzz7Hf4Af-cQiYdmzplj2ITEoWro9s3UJJhZqbj53W1fAiQ2QaN2pdAGYzOPMvDC4qDzRhfeoeFDkDwFAxD7i67dvg" width="219" /></a></div></i><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">It was good to see old friends and catch up, and to make new ones.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>The last newsletter will be on December 11th, although I'll continue to send the occasional email if something interesting comes my way that I think you'd like to know about. Discussion with some of the indie publishers at the Fair suggest an afterlife for the Glue Factory as an occasional pop-up shop - so keep watching the stars.</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>4. Beckett at Reading</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">A two-day gathering on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th November - </span><span style="font-size: small;">an event that will appeal to all Beckettians, and prompted (apparently) by the fiftieth anniversary of the trailblazing 1971 exhibition of Beckett manuscripts assembled by James Knowlson. Fifty-one years ago.</span></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">I have the original catalogue of what was then a modest collection but which has since expanded colossally. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Full details and bookings <b style="color: red;"><a href="https://www.store.reading.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-arts-humanities-social-science/english-literature-department/beckett-at-reading-%E2%80%93-50th-anniversary">here.</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">NB There's a rail strike on the Friday, so plan accordingly</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>5. Samuel Beckett’s Visual Imagination</b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Thursday 2</b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">4 Nov 2022, 5:00 PM</b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></b></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times;"><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; max-width: 660px; padding: 0px 0px 0.7rem; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">More Beckett. A presentation by Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon that will examine Samuel Beckett’s personal library, which has remained in his apartment in Paris since his death in 1989. It will discuss the reading traces and marginalia found in these books to chart Beckett’s intellectual world. Beckett was fond of ‘reading wildly all over the place’ (as he told his friend Thomas MacGreevy in 1936), collecting material from a wide range of subjects that would influence his aesthetic thinking and his creative works. In particular, the talk will examine the Irish writer’s profound engagement with the visual arts, which played a pivotal role in shaping the striking images that pervade his texts for stage and page. Drawing on his surviving library in Paris, his books on art and gallery catalogues, unpublished diaries, manuscripts and published texts, this talk will give a unique insight into Beckett’s creative, visual imagination.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; max-width: 660px; padding: 0.7rem 0px;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Dirk Van Hulle is Professor of Bibliography and Modern Book History at the </span><span style="font-family: courier; text-align: left;">University of Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Textual Editing and Theory (OCTET).</span></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: medium; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px; max-width: 660px; padding: 0.7rem 0px 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Mark Nixon is Associate Professor of Modern Literature and Co-Director of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading.</span></p></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="goog_101527597"><br /></a></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://www.dox.cz/en/whats-on/samuel-becketts-visual-imagination">Click here for more details and to book a ticket</a></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Tickets are just 120 CZK (£4.30)</b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>6. T. S. Eliot Annual Lecture 2022</b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 24px;">The Annual T S Eliot Lecture 2022 is to be given in London at 5.30pm on <b>Thursday 17th November</b> by Professor John Haffenden. Its title is <em>Vivien Eliot – Woman and Writer</em>.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 24px;">John Haffenden is the “indefatigable, exemplary editor” (Evening Standard) of <em>The Letters of TS Eliot</em>, now in its ninth volume. This has given him a unique perspective on Eliot’s life and work. He is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield, Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of English Studies, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. In a TLS review of the most recent volume of the <em>Letters</em>, John Haffenden was praised for his “expert hands” and “a manner both companionable and erudite”.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 24px;">This is the first time that the Lecture has been delivered in London – in the Bloomsbury neighbourhood where Eliot worked for most of his life - thanks to the English Department of University College, London, who will be hosting the event in the Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at UCL.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 24px;">The Lecture will be introduced by Professor Mark Ford, Head of the English Department at UCL, who has himself written and spoken widely on TS Eliot.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 24px;">Admission is free, but the audience is limited and registration is required, via <a href="http://tseliotlecture.eventbrite.co.uk/" rel="noopener" style="color: #0066cc; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;" target="_blank">tseliotlecture.eventbrite.co.uk</a></p></span></div></span></div></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>7. Boniface klaxon</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Here's our Kevin getting into the groove at the 2017 Congress of Psychogeography. Tuneful.</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="goog_82016331"><br /></a></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-157578536/kev-beeves-mlb-at-the-4th-world-congress-of-psychogeography-2017?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing">https://soundcloud.com/user-157578536/kev-beeves-mlb-at-the-4th-world-congress-of-psychogeography-2017?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing</a></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>8. Shocking fillers</b></span></div><div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><div style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>What follows is a plug. And when we say 'plug' do you think of bath plugs or electrical plugs? And why are we said to 'plug' something when we promote it?</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>None of these questions is addressed in my recent perpetration </b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><i>Multiple Joyce: 100 short essays about James Joyce's cultural legacy. </i></b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Published in Dublin on 16th June (Bloomsday) this year, this is the only book about the author's cultural legacy you're ever likely to need.</b></div><div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><br /></b></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLbG40OZtfSKXGn41LkaxxR42mMyEn3_e2-H2ZgqUYk3Y7fsiDARDWj2BBJR5QCbdihGQEXtem2Y4b6J8fQnuhsOjlOjsARs0yMD6k1QiuCqUoTvw45PpMx-3u_1r63U8icHAwXHJajPtx4GVdhFW9LMKIUVZAvYLtGtQU0rTdJrbSq1_473FwtJlgvw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhLbG40OZtfSKXGn41LkaxxR42mMyEn3_e2-H2ZgqUYk3Y7fsiDARDWj2BBJR5QCbdihGQEXtem2Y4b6J8fQnuhsOjlOjsARs0yMD6k1QiuCqUoTvw45PpMx-3u_1r63U8icHAwXHJajPtx4GVdhFW9LMKIUVZAvYLtGtQU0rTdJrbSq1_473FwtJlgvw" width="164" /></a></div><br /><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>It's not too late to order copies as Diwali gifts, and not too early to think about stocking fillers for bookish friends you're not that keen on. </b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Here are some notices (more will follow in future newsletters until you give in:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">“A rare, delicious treat for readers, and a book that would have tickled Joyce, with its vibrant potpourri of playfulness, punning, and pathos…. I defy Joycean purists not to be totally beguiled by this absorbing, upfront, funny, erudite, and charming book.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>— Nuala O’Connor, in <a href="https://booksirelandmagazine.com/playfulness-punning-and-pathos-multiple-joyce-by-david-collard/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Books Ireland Magazine</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">“Simply charming…. His voice and his style are infectious…. Anybody who’s even remotely interested in Joyce should own this book.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>— Chris Via, in <a href="https://youtu.be/HivwpWEm8Ms" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">Leaf by Leaf (video)</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">“Some of the 100 essays in this rowdy exhibit hall offer intriguing trivia; others provide literary insights, and readers of all interest levels will find something unexpected to contemplate. We may already know that Joyce wrote stories, plays and novels, one of which, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ulysses</em>, is considered by many to be ‘the greatest novel of all full stop.’ But were we aware that the Italian perfumer Mirko Buffini created a fragrance collection based on <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Finnegans Wake</em>? Or that Joyce favored Borsalino hats, worn today by the likes of John Malkovich and Nicole Kidman? What has <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Moby-Dick</em> got to do with Joyce, and why is that hyphen in the title? Collard will fill you in. These short essays exude infectious delight for a universe of such arcana.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>— Lori Soderlind, in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/books/review/gary-indiana-david-collard-charles-baxter.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">The New York Times Book Review</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">“This year being the centenary of the publication of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ulysses</em>, there has been a flurry of new books and republications…. But to my mind David Collard’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Multiple Joyce</em> is the most joyful and the most Joycean…. The strategy of the book … is to take bemusement seriously…. There is a real pleasure in reading a book about Joyce that actually makes you laugh.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>— Stuart Kelly, in <a href="https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/at-last-a-book-about-james-joyce-that-makes-you-laugh" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007bff; text-decoration-line: none;">The Spectator</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">“Collard is a wry and gifted essayist as well as an expert on Joyce. But he simply refuses to take himself—or Joyce, or indeed anything—too seriously…. [<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Multiple Joyce</em> is] frequently bloody hilarious. It’s also erudite and considered, written by a cultured soul with a highly polished proclivity for satire…. I cannot recommend this delightful, unusual work highly enough. Bravissimo.”</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span> </span>— Anne Cunningham, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Meath Chronicle</em></span><b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span> </span><span> </span></span></b></p></div><div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Buy one, buy many </span></b><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/multiple_joyce/">here</a></span></b></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">9. Professor Kulpana Shankar</span><span style="color: #01ffff;"> </span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-zl2h9q" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px 0px 2px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-k4xj1c r-18u37iz r-1wtj0ep" style="-webkit-box-align: start; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; 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-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: row; flex-shrink: 1; margin: 0px 0px 0px 4px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1d09ksm r-18u37iz r-1wbh5a2" style="-webkit-box-align: baseline; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; align-items: baseline; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: row; flex-shrink: 1; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-1wbh5a2 r-dnmrzs" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 1; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span color="inherit" style="font-size: x-small; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b>Congratulations to Professor Kalpana Shankar who was this week became the first woman of colour to become a Full Professor in Ireland. </b></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>____________________ </b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>10. Tolka issue 4 launch</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier; text-align: center;">Issue 4 of TOLKA (as featured on last Sunday's Glue Factory gathering) has gone to the printers, and copies are expected very soon! </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tolkajournal.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D677309d7dfe2174bba0c8200c%26id%3D8bc3ec32e8%26e%3D9a22e38dd4&source=gmail&ust=1666901143084000&usg=AOvVaw0OtmvwjKWP0v5Jtiy57tEe" href="https://tolkajournal.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=677309d7dfe2174bba0c8200c&id=8bc3ec32e8&e=9a22e38dd4" style="font-family: courier; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Pre-order yours now</span></a><span style="font-family: courier; text-align: center;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier; text-align: center;">Tolka Issue Four will be launched as part of </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tolkajournal.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D677309d7dfe2174bba0c8200c%26id%3Dbd3bc442b3%26e%3D9a22e38dd4&source=gmail&ust=1666901143084000&usg=AOvVaw2oQ5_VAp2RsLfwRmV6ZQKt" href="https://tolkajournal.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=677309d7dfe2174bba0c8200c&id=bd3bc442b3&e=9a22e38dd4" style="word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">Dublin Book Festival</a> </span><span style="font-family: courier; text-align: center;">on </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier; text-align: center;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tolkajournal.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D677309d7dfe2174bba0c8200c%26id%3D2a22860bfd%26e%3D9a22e38dd4&source=gmail&ust=1666901143084000&usg=AOvVaw10im11rqj2d79Vpu_0fg15" href="https://tolkajournal.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=677309d7dfe2174bba0c8200c&id=2a22860bfd&e=9a22e38dd4" style="word-break: break-word;" target="_blank"><strong>Saturday 12 November at 4.30pm</strong></a><strong> </strong>i</span><span style="font-family: courier; text-align: center;">n Dublin Castle. There will be readings readings from: </span><span style="font-family: courier; text-align: center;">Kasandra Ferguson, Sonya Gildea, Mark O’Connell and Isobel O’Donovan</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: courier; text-align: center;">Register for your free ticket</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier; text-align: center;"> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://tolkajournal.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D677309d7dfe2174bba0c8200c%26id%3Dffc8e2a770%26e%3D9a22e38dd4&source=gmail&ust=1666901143084000&usg=AOvVaw2hcqV0h8c-F4XQBZ-sA9Ph" href="https://tolkajournal.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=677309d7dfe2174bba0c8200c&id=ffc8e2a770&e=9a22e38dd4" style="word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><p class="m_-5465630037902641570last-child" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p><p class="m_-5465630037902641570last-child" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; word-break: break-word;"><br /></p></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><br /></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>11. Next week's online gathering</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>On Sunday 6th November we'll have second Sidekick Books showcase curated by publisher Jon Stone with guest writers</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span> </span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"> Adam Crothers </b></span></div><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier; font-size: small; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b> Belle Roach</b></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;"> <span> </span>Julia Rose Lewis </b></p><p class="p3" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><b> <span> </span>Lara Frankena </b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;"><span> </span>Lotte Mitchell Reford </b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left;"><span> and</span> </b></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><b><span> </span>Vika Gusak </b></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>12. Nudge</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b><b>The reason behind nearly 150 live gatherings (more than 250 hours of online broadcasting) and the reason behind this free newsletter (issued weekly for the past year) is to raise funds for The Trussell Trust, the UK's main food bank charity. That's why I do it, and why so many fine creative practitioners - more than 500 to date - have donated their time and energy and talent to the programme in its current and earlier iterations <i>A Leap in the Dark</i> and <i>carthorse orchestra.</i></b></b></b></b></b></b></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">I don't labour the fact, and you're welcome in the audience whether you donate or not. These gatherings are free and by invitation only (which gives me, as host, plenty of freedom when it comes to copyright material). But I hope all of you reading this, and all of you in the online audience past, present and future, will dig deep and support this very worthwhile charity. The Trust does a lot of good in these dark days and offers a lifeline to many of the most vulnerable in our society. </b></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/"><b>https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/</b></a></span></span></span></p></div><div><span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>___________________</b></span></p><div style="color: red;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="color: red;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>PS </b></span><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Did you remember to turn your clocks back, if you happen to be in Britain. It's now GMT, not BST, so you'll have enjoyed an extra hour in bed this morning. </b></div><div><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></b></div><div><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Don't forget the Hallowe'en screening of <i>Dracula: the Untold Story</i> tomorrow night at 7:30pm GMT, introduced by its award- winning designer Laura Hopkins.</b><b style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </b></div></span></div></span></div></span></span></span></span></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-33576162018901779592022-10-23T07:48:00.002+01:002022-10-23T07:48:37.916+01:00Newsletter 55<p><br /></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red;"><b style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><span> </span>Exiled Thucydides knew</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><span> </span>All that a speech can say</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><span> </span>About Democracy,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><span> </span>And what dictators do,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><span> </span>The elderly rubbish they talk</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><span> </span>To an apathetic grave;</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><span> </span>Analysed all in his book,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><span> </span>The enlightenment driven away,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><span> </span>The habit-forming pain,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><span> </span>Mismanagement and grief:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434;" /><span class="long-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #343434; display: inline-block; margin-left: 32px; text-indent: -32px;"><span> </span>We must suffer them all again.</span></span></b></b></p><p> <span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b> (from Auden's September 1, 1939)</b></span><br /></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">The day before Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister last week an American friend emailed me to say</b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span> </span>'Britain is learning that there is no good way to do a bad thing, no smart way to <span> </span>do a stupid thing.'</b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Truss was the shortest-serving British Prime Minister in history (44 days), yet still managed in a few weeks to wipe out the Queen, the economy and the Conservative party, which is some legacy. She grinned inanely throughout her short resignation speech outside Number 10 - as I've often observed her face doesn't know what her voice is doing - and she now has a promising future behind her. Johnson has flown back from the Dominican Republic for a second go at leading his party and the country. History (to adapt Hegel's aphorism) repeats itself: first as farce then as tragedy. We are once again exposed to his trademark blustercockery.</b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">The Tories have destroyed t</b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">he UK's unique and economically essential place in the EU, m</b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">embership of the Single Market, an until-recently</b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> strong and growing economy, a p</b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">ositive global reputation, a r</b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">espected currency, </b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">AAA credit rating and</b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> a reputation for fair play and hospitality. And now we have to grind through another leadership campaign and - Auden again - the elderly rubbish they talk.</b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">What next?</span></b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">Newsletter contents</b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></p><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. This week’s online gathering </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Spiracle</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>4. Any requests?</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>5. At Home with the Boyle Family</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">6. </b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>Irish Short Story of the Year Shortlist 2022 - Vote Now!</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>7. The Booker Prize 2022</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>8. Speaking of the Booker</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>9. Small Publishers Fair 2022</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>10.</b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span><b>Next week's online gatherings</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>11. Nudge</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>12. PS</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Every week I open with this. I wish I didn't have to.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Please give as much as you can, whenever you can. </b></span><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span class="s1" style="color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>T</b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>he most far-reaching aid programme has been, and remains, the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. </b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>You can donate quickly and easily </b></span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here.</span></a></b></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Thank you.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">2. This week’s online gathering</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">You'll get a Zoom link at 6:30 pm London time for this 90-minute show, which startsat 7:30pm and features an online premiere of the Dublin-based composer David Bremner's new opera <i>Slow Recognition. </i>David will introduce<i> </i>two scenes and be in conversation with the director/dramaturg Hélène Montague and soprano Elizabeth Hilliard</p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i><br /></i></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">The Irish theme continues with a clutch of five writers featured in the latest issue of<i> Tolka </i>journal (below), namely </span><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Mae Graber, </span></span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Kate Feld, </span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Tim MacGabhann, </span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Elizabeth Brennan and </span><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Darran Anderson. They'll be joined by </span></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Bernadette Lowry, author of <i>Sounds of Manymirth on the Night’s Ear Ringing: Percy French (1854-1920)</i></span></span><i style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> His Jarvey Years and Joyce’s Haunted Inkbottle, </i><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">who will </span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">share some thoughts about <i>Finnegans Wake.</i></span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i> </i></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6P02bWWIJapT_MBs_gkLRyVftWGFg1_lSIncWd69BVZjLNREt0hA9D_FyYqi3wfFr33jV_6Gm_zp4Y703LGBXDkgm0iXz-2J3WvhpQ2XYC4klTA1V_KS10sIOlBgz-g2wgr4q4NLn5G2YbQQFzHCKllVrSWWVpUXa-Oju1oYPIHHHZLJsXee4aqzwfw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="802" data-original-width="526" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj6P02bWWIJapT_MBs_gkLRyVftWGFg1_lSIncWd69BVZjLNREt0hA9D_FyYqi3wfFr33jV_6Gm_zp4Y703LGBXDkgm0iXz-2J3WvhpQ2XYC4klTA1V_KS10sIOlBgz-g2wgr4q4NLn5G2YbQQFzHCKllVrSWWVpUXa-Oju1oYPIHHHZLJsXee4aqzwfw" width="157" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The feature on Alfred Hitchcock's undervalued and critically-neglected 1953 film <i>The Trouble with Harry </i>is being held over until later in the series. </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">____________________</b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> </b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Spiracle Audiobooks</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b>Listen up - this is something new, and different: an indie producer of talking books publishing works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and short stories, as well as books in translation.</b></span></div><div><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Take a look at this <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v%3DZ_sCrDRGbpI&source=gmail&ust=1666254232381000&usg=AOvVaw1hRA3ppb8yTyzb4FmklRu9" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_sCrDRGbpI" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">short video introducing Spiracle</a>. It's an imopressive list and they have clevere ways or organsiing their titles and supporting your choice.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>To promote the launch of Spiracle you can set up a <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/subscription&source=gmail&ust=1666254232381000&usg=AOvVaw1hBcWBnCG1NAhVO4wh681B" href="https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/subscription" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">free month subscription</a> You can subscribe for yourself or give a subscription as a gift, and this offer applies worldwide.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Select the monthly option and you will be prompted to set up a Spiracle account in the same way as others, including card details, but importantly <i>no transaction will be made</i>. The 30 days will start from when you set up your account - we will keep this enabled until the end of this Sunday, 23 October.<br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>When 30 days have passed you can consider renewing your subscription. Or not. </b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>The current monthly editions are <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/shalimar&source=gmail&ust=1666254232381000&usg=AOvVaw354UsJsjOOGUjGwvQIPIXe" href="https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/shalimar" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><i>Shalimar </i></a>by Davina Quinlivan and<i> <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/his-bloody-project&source=gmail&ust=1666254232381000&usg=AOvVaw3YmIjxFixg3EieODrqxFKb" href="https://www.spiracleaudiobooks.com/audiobooks/his-bloody-project" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">His Bloody Project</a> </i>by Roderick Macrae.<br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>As your 30 day subscription will overlap November you might choose one of next month's editions - <i>The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing </i>by Joseph Fasano and <i>The Journey is Hom</i>e by John Sam Jones, which will be available from 1 November. Your subscription gives you two books which you can add to your library to enjoy. Simply visit the book page and select the 'add to library' option.</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">____________________</b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </b></b></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><span style="color: red;">4. Any requests?</span></b></b></p><p><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-indent: -48px;">The last Glue Factory online gathering, on </b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-indent: -48px;"><span style="color: red;">Sunday 11th December</span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-indent: -48px;">, will consist mostly of highlights from the previous 49 shows in the series and I'm open to suggestions and requests... so hit me up, as they say. What would you like to see? Or see again?</b></p><p><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-indent: -48px;">To help you choose, I've uploaded a list of programme content for the past 12 months on my website: <a href="https://davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site/general-clean">https://davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site/general-clean </a></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"></b></b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; text-align: left;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">____________________</b></span><b> </b></b></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><b><span style="color: red;">5. At Home with the Boyle Family</span></b></b></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Thanks to Glue Factory stalwart Kevin Boniface (a huge admirer of the Boyle Family) for alerting me to this intriguing London event:</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>IKLECTIK presents</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: medium;"><span> </span>AT HOME WITH THE BOYLE FAMILY – film launch</span></strong></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>Sunday 13 November 2022 | Doors: 3:30pm</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: courier;">It's described as 'our painstakingly created new art-documentary film about the postwar British origins of the psychedelic liquid light show.' </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;">Full details <a href="https://iklectikartlab.com/at-home-with-the-boyle-family-film-launch/">here</a></b><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Tickets: Pay what you feel donation basis <a href="https://bit.ly/3SFVNke" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease 0s;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">https://bit.ly/3SFVNke</span></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier;"><br /></b></div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Suggested donation: £10 Worker Supporter / £5 Budget Supporter / £1 Minimum</b></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>All proceeds go to the artists and the cost of making the event, which, like the film, is self-financed.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><div>Boyle Family is a group of London-based collaborative artists, founded by Joan Hills and Mark Boyle. Embracing a multidisciplinary approach to artmaking before the term was coined, Mark and Joan’s experiments with assemblages and fascination with material processes led them to the chance innovation of the liquid lightshow, an aspect of their multifarious practice that also includes casts of landscape. Although deeply involved since childhood, participating in home studio experiments and more, Sebastian (b.1962) and Georgia Boyle (b.1963) officially adopted the Boyle Family moniker with their parents in 1985. Although Mark passed away in 2005, they continue to exhibit globally.</div><div><a href="https://www.boylefamily.co.uk/">https://www.boylefamily.co.uk/</a></div></b></div></b></span><p></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"></b></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>I'd love to go to this but would have to slope off almost immediately in order to be</b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">back home in time to set up the show. Unless... perhaps... <i>an Outside Broadcast?</i></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">____________________</b></span><b> </b></b></b></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><b><b><span style="color: red;">6. </span></b></b></b></b><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Irish Short Story of the Year Shortlist 2022 - Vote Now!</b></span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></p><div class="elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-6aa8dbcf" data-element_type="column" data-id="6aa8dbcf" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; 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display: flex; margin: 0px; position: relative; width: 658.992px;"><div class="elementor-widget-wrap" style="align-content: flex-start; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 658.992px;"><div class="elementor-element elementor-element-6fcc1a27 elementor-widget elementor-widget-theme-post-content" data-element_type="widget" data-id="6fcc1a27" data-widget_type="theme-post-content.default" style="--align-content: initial; --align-items: initial; --align-self: initial; --flex-basis: initial; --flex-direction: initial; --flex-grow: initial; --flex-shrink: initial; --flex-wrap: initial; --gap: initial; --justify-content: initial; --order: initial; --widgets-spacing: 20px; -webkit-box-align: var(--align-items); -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-flex: var(--flex-grow); -webkit-box-ordinal-group: var(--order); -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-pack: var(--justify-content); align-content: var(--align-content); align-items: var(--align-items); align-self: var(--align-self); box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: var(--flex-basis); flex-direction: var(--flex-direction); flex-grow: var(--flex-grow); flex-shrink: var(--flex-shrink); flex-wrap: var(--flex-wrap); gap: var(--gap); justify-content: var(--justify-content); order: var(--order); position: relative; width: 658.992px;"><div class="elementor-widget-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: background 0.3s ease 0s, border 0.3s ease 0s, border-radius 0.3s ease 0s, box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s, -webkit-box-shadow 0.3s ease 0s;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #282828;">This year's </span>judges – author and short story award winner <a href="https://atlantic-books.co.uk/contributor/rachel-donohue/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Rachel Donohue</a>, bookseller <a href="https://gutterbookshop.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Bob Johnston</a> and literary agent <a href="https://www.simontrewin.co.uk/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Simon Trewin</a> – have selected the six stories for the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Writing.ie Irish Short Story of the Year shortlist.</span> Now it’s up to readers (and this includes you), to vote for their favourite on the An Post Irish Book Awards website.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The six shortlisted stories, which have been published in both literary journals and collections, are:</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Sleep Watchers by Roisín O’Donnell published in <a href="https://stingingfly.org/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Stinging Fly</a></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Red Market by Sheila Armstrong from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/how-to-gut-a-fish-9781526635778/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">How to Gut a Fish</a></em> (Bloomsbury)</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Mathematics by Wendy Erskine from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://stingingfly.org/product/dance-move/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Dance Move</a></em> (The Stingfly Press)</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The Chekhovians by Rebecca Miller from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://canongate.co.uk/books/4208-total/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Total</a> </em>(Cannongate Books)</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">This Small Giddy Life by Nuala O’Connor from <em style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.newisland.ie/fiction/a-little-unsteadily" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">A Little Unsteadily Into Light</a></em> (New Island)</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Miles of Bad Road by Neil Tully published in <a href="https://www.thewaxedlemon.com/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">The Waxed Lemon Literary Journal</a></span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>You can read all six stories by clicking on the links above, and you can <a href="https://www.writing.ie/news/irish-short-story-of-the-year-shortlist-2022-vote-now/">vote here</a> (but do read the stories first). And there are many other categories to vote in! Particular congratulations to Glue Factory favourites Wendy Erskine and Nuala O'Connor.</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">____________________ </b></p></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier;"><b>7. 2022 Booker Prize</b></span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b>Good to see the Booker won this year by an indie press - congratulations to Sortof Books and Sri Lankan author </b></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Shehan Karunatilaka </b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b>for </b></span></span></span></span></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida</i>. I haven't (yet) met anyone who's read this 'comic noir mystery' and would like to hear from you if you have. (My fiver was on Alan Garner's<i> Treacle Walker)</i>.</b></p><p><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Here's Max Liu:</b></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><i><span> </span>The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida</i> is set in the 1990s, at the height of Sri Lanka’s bloody <span> </span>civil war. It is narrated in the second person “you” voice by its eponymous protagonist <span> <span> </span></span>who, at the beginning, wakes up dead. Maali, a gay photographer who claims to have taken <span> </span>shocking photographs that have the potential to bring down Sri Lanka’s corrupt government, <span> </span>believes he has been murdered by a death squad.</b></span></span></p><p><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span>Maali exists in “the in-between” – dead but not yet in the afterlife – where he has seven <span> </span>moons to find out what happened to him. Maali watches his family grieving, coming up <span> </span><span> </span>against corrupt police, as the novel roams widely to what Karunatilaka has called “the <span> </span><span> </span>dark heart of the world.”</b></p><p><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">The chair of judges, Neil McGregor, said that the novel '</b><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>takes the reader on a rollercoaster journey through life and death, and there the reader finds, to her surprise, joy, tenderness, love and loyalty.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>When it comes to fiction (and fairgrounds) I'm really not a rollercoaster kinda guy, to be honest. And Liu said he 'found the first 50 pages overwritten and self-conscious.' If that's the case I'd have bailed long before that point (but then I wasn't one of the judges employed to read 170 novels in a year at the rate of one every day or two). Liu also says that after finishing the novel 'it haunted me for weeks' which seems to me rather faint praise, because the best novels don't fade after a few weeks, do they? I've now read <i>Treacle Walker</i> three times (it's very short) and come away more impressed each time. It's deep and rich and strange but certainly not overwrought, not self-conscious. It's as simple as breathing, though not as easy. </b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>But I could be quite wrong. Any Karunatilaka</b></span></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> advocates out there?</b></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span><span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">____________________</b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"> </b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span style="color: red; font-size: 12px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier;">8. Speaking of the Booker</b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier;">Let's assume that the Booker prize winner, like all prize winners, knows in advance that they have won (and will therefore have a witty and felicitous speech prepared in advance). This means that all the mon-winners will also know for sure that they haven't won. But they are still expected, perhaps even obliged, to turn up for the awards ceremony. </b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier;">Now this may be great fun for all, with good nosh and gargle, convivial company, a chance to dress up and<span style="color: red;"> </span>press the flesh and even - joy of joys - meet the Queen Consort. The cost of the ceremony must come close to the value of the prize (£50k). It's very grand, although it also looks to me like the type of gathering at which the honking dullard Johnson comes on as the after-dinner speaker.</b></span></span></span></span></p><p><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier;">Speaking for myself I can think of few more ghastly ways of spending a Tuesday night in central London, and few experiences more remote from the practice of writing, and the business of being a writer. Has any winner, by the way, ever failed to turn up? Come to that, has anyone ever turned down a Booker?</b></span></span></span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">____________________</b></span><b> </b></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">9.Small Publishers Fair 2022</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">A final reminder that </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96%26id%3Dad14c9aa88%26e%3D1bcb4d2ea3&source=gmail&ust=1665860441307000&usg=AOvVaw2NodiflhaXZIcchkPtOhNv" href="https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96&id=ad14c9aa88&e=1bcb4d2ea3" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">Small Publishers Fair</a><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"> returns to Conway Hall on </span><strong style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October.</strong></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">In addition to 69 publishers showing and selling their publications, and the exhibition (Bibliopoe: books by Steven J Fowler), there will be readings and talks both afternoons. This includes ther artoist Natalia Zagorska-Thomas talking about her forthcoming collaboration with Chalres Boyle (that's on Friday at 4:30pm) </span></span></b></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96%26id%3D54d7467c40%26e%3D1bcb4d2ea3&source=gmail&ust=1665860441307000&usg=AOvVaw2p9zt7OSeUMx-JE2EeQatB" href="https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96&id=54d7467c40&e=1bcb4d2ea3" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">Click here for details.</a><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><strong style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">The Programme</strong></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">The free 20-page programme includes publishers' listings and featured books plus information on readings, talks and the exhibition. Download a PDF </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96%26id%3Dfa308f1a1e%26e%3D1bcb4d2ea3&source=gmail&ust=1665860441307000&usg=AOvVaw3x1aQug3cLF-iy_XCYfKXt" href="https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96&id=fa308f1a1e&e=1bcb4d2ea3" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">here </a><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">to plan your visit or browse the Fair from afar.</span><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><strong style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">On the day</strong></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">When you arrive at Conway Hall please go to reception to pick up a free copy of the printed programme and this autumn's issue of the excellent </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96%26id%3Db018d868ae%26e%3D1bcb4d2ea3&source=gmail&ust=1665860441307000&usg=AOvVaw2wFE6LRP7ikVFlYr31NZeG" href="https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96&id=b018d868ae&e=1bcb4d2ea3" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">Brixton Review of Books</a><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">.</span><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">Conway Hall is in a lovely part of London just two minutes walk from Holborn tube. Admission to the Fair and all related events is free. Doors open at 11am and close at 7pm each day.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, </span></b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">London, WC1R 4RL</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; white-space: normal;"></span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Fair will feature some of the indies that have appeared in The Glue Factory (and in its earlier iterations). Bring cash, cards and totebags. If you see me, say hello!</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">____________________</b></span><b> </b></b></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b>10</b></b></span></b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b>. Next week's online gatherings</b></b></b></b></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Not a typo - there are </span><span style="color: red;">two</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> events next week!</span></b></b></b></b></b></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;">Next Sunday (30th October) we have our annual Hallowe'en gathering and this year our guest curator is the Chicago-based artist and writer Riva Lehrer (author of the prize-winning memoir <i>Golem Girl</i>) with her guests </b></b></b></b></b></span></b><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b style="text-align: justify;">Hayley Campbell (author of <i>The Living and the Dead</i>), </b></b></b></b></b></span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;">Audrey</b><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b> Niffenegger </b></span></span><b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: justify;">(author of <i>The Time Traveller's Wife</i>), and the artist Landis Blair. They'll be joined by the Glasgow-based writer and artist Rose Ruane who will produce a unique artwork which will be offered for sale to the highest bidder at the end of the evening (with proceeds to The Trussell Trust).</b></b></b></b></b></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b>And on Hallowe'en night (Monday 31st October) we'll have an out-of-series gathering to watch together a neglected classic of 1930s Universal Studios horror, from director James Whale (<i>The Invisible Man</i>, <i>Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein). </i>It's<i> The Old Dark House</i> (1932), based on the novel by J. B. Priestley. A wonderful cast (including the immortal Wilfred Thesiger as the stratospherically camp Horace Femm and Karloff in his first role after playing the Creature in <i>Frankenstein</i>) and Charles Laughton making his screen debut. Murder, arson, transvestism, a sexual predator, power cuts and the worst dinner ever caught on film. </b></b></b></b></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-weight: 400;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">____________________</b></span><b> </b></b></b></b></b></b></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b><b>11. Nudge</b></b></b></b></b></b></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b><b>The reason behind nearly 150 live gatherings (more than 250 hours of online broadcasting) and the reason behind this free newsletter (issued weekly for the past year) is to raise funds for The Trussell Trust, the UK's main food bank charity. That's why I do it, and why so many fine creative practitioners - more than 500 to date - have donated their time and energy and talent to the programme in its current and earlier iterations <i>A Leap in the Dark</i> and <i>carthorse orchestra.</i></b></b></b></b></b></b></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"><b><b><b><b><b>I don't labour the fact, and you're welcome in the audience whether you donate or not. These gatherings are free and by invitation only (which gives me, as host, plenty of freedom when it comes to copyright material). But I hope all of you reading this, and all of you in the online audience past, present and future, will dig deep and support this very worthwhile charity. The Trust does a lot of good in these dark days and offers a lifeline to many of the most vulnerable in our society. </b></b></b></b></b></b></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: large;"> <a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/"><b>https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/</b></a></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Thank you.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">____________________</b></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: red;">PS</span> </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span data-offset-key="15k9s-0-0" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true">Are there any wildly successful children's authors out there who would like to get involved in the celebrity telly chef/restaurant chain scene? You could get </span></span><span style="color: #1d9bf0; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-offset-key="15k9s-1-0">@jamieoliver</span></span><span data-offset-key="15k9s-2-0" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span data-text="true"> himself to work for you as a 'ghost chef', cobbling up some unoriginal meals that include offensively stereotypical ingredients, and for which you take all the credit. Then, once you're established as a top celebrity telly chef you can move back into children's publishing and earn ££££££!!!!! Everybody wins! </span></span></b></p>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-71798400319640704372022-10-16T00:10:00.003+01:002022-10-16T00:35:22.162+01:00Newsletter 54<p><br /></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">October 2022. Every day's better than the next.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Predictably, but quite misleadingly, the great Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane (who died this week) was described everywhere as 'the beloved Harry Potter actor', which is like writing off Alec Guinness as a Star Wars icon. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Coltrane was very much more than the gargantuan Hogwarts groundsman. I recall vividly his one-man show as Dr Johnson in the tiny studio theatre attached to the Lyric, Hammersmith, forty years ago. In a motheaten wig and threadbare frockcoat he spat half-eaten cold spuds over the front row, twitching and lurching and chumbling irritably ('My days were <i>NOT </i>spent saying ONE memorrable THING aftah anothah!'). A mesmerising performance, and oddly adorable.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">He had a solid film career (notable roles in <i>Mona Lisa </i>and (as Falstaff) in Branagh's<i> Henry V)</i> Best of all were two brilliant telly roles - as Danny McGlone in John Byrne's rock 'n' role drama <i>Tutti-Frutti</i> (opposite a very young Emma Thompson) and (above all) as the </span></b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>criminal psychologist and gambling addict Eddie 'Fitz' Fitzgerald</b></span><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"> in the matchless <i>Cracker</i>. They're on the internet, so look them up.</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCF5t0UTinsX1ge-5XgMW5wUruXaVR1i4ELKpn1lnIvWedGX3Ih28Yf0Mt-fQRWHWCNQw-y5Zd1Tr9O6MIU4_0yUJbCKQJTwIBxlTpIRshHw13wTsfLe7AlhaOCylRorcE44gf2AlxgkwffNky5BApf_nbqglygNAHvhjsMF4E4ml36k3MPpvVOZva2A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="474" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiCF5t0UTinsX1ge-5XgMW5wUruXaVR1i4ELKpn1lnIvWedGX3Ih28Yf0Mt-fQRWHWCNQw-y5Zd1Tr9O6MIU4_0yUJbCKQJTwIBxlTpIRshHw13wTsfLe7AlhaOCylRorcE44gf2AlxgkwffNky5BApf_nbqglygNAHvhjsMF4E4ml36k3MPpvVOZva2A" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>1950 - 2022</b></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">Newsletter contents</b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></p><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. This week’s online gathering </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Bearded Badger</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> Dodo Ink</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Scratch Books</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> Spiracle</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>4. <span> A Boogie at Bedtime</span> </b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span>5. </span>Ali Millar at The Social</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>6. One Dublin, Two Books</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>7. Small Publishers Fair 2022</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>8. The Pig's Back</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>9. Any requests?</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>10. </b></span><b><i>London Consequences 2</i> - the latest</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>11. The Gordon Burn Prize 2022</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>12. T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist </b></span><b> </b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>13. Next week's online gathering</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>14. Nudge</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Please give as much as you can, whenever you can. </b></span><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span class="s1" style="color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>T</b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>he most far-reaching aid programme has been, and remains, the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. </b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>You can donate quickly and easily </b></span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here.</span></a></b></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Thank you.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">2. This week’s online gathering</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space">Dominican poet </span>Celia Sorhaindo on her<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span><b>highly-anticipated first full-length collection </b><b><i>Radical Normalisation; </i>the English language imprint</b><span class="s2" style="font-kerning: none;"><b> V & Q Books introduced by Katy Darbyshire and Peter Freeth; </b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left; text-indent: -48px;">S J Fowler on his new novel <i>MUEUM; </i>roving reporter </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left; text-indent: -48px;">Melissa McCarthy, and </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left; text-indent: -48px;">Bernadette Gorman on <i>Finnegans Wake.</i></b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left; text-indent: -48px;"><i><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></i></b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left; text-indent: -48px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">There are<i> now </i>eight more shows to go before I pull the plug, and we have forthcoming programmes dedicated to Hitchcock, Sidekick Books, Wittgenstein's <i>Tractatus</i>, apostasy, experimental Italian poetry, grand guignol, the centenary of <i>The Waste Land</i>, the online premiere of a new opera, the best in contemporary poetry and prose, indie publishers and some very special guest appearances! </span></b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left; text-indent: -48px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; text-align: left; text-indent: -48px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space">The very last programme, on 11th December, will consist mostly of highlights from the previous 49 shows in the series and I'm open to suggestions and requests. See item 9 below.</span></b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">____________________</b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> </b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bearded Badger </span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span>Good to see the Badger is up to his old tricks. Available now to pre-order is a </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">brilliant new collection of flash fiction from Nicola Ashbrook entitled <i>The Art of Escapology</i>. It's a</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"> series of stories all woven around the theme of escape; be it physical, emotional or simply a journey around the imagination.
</span></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">It's published this week </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">on 20th October, and you can pre order a copy </span><a href="https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/online-store/The-Art-of-Escapology-by-Nicola-Ashbrook-p493306782">here.</a></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Dodo Ink</span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Dodo Ink is an indie press dedicated to publishing daring and difficult fiction. Set up by novelist Sam Mills, book reviewer Thom Cuell and marketing expert Alex Spears, Dodo authors include Monique Roffey, Neil Griffiths and Seraphina Madsen, whose</b></span></span><b style="font-family: courier;"> second novel <i>Aurora</i> is out soon and carries blurbs from Venetia Welby and Stu Henningan and Heidi James, which is recommendation enough! </b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Madsen's first novel Dodge and Burn was published by Dodo Ink in 2016 and shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness prize. </span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Aurora</i> is published in January 2023. Look out for this.</span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><b style="color: red; font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Scratch Books</span></b></p></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><i><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://scratch-books.co.uk/shop&source=gmail&ust=1665185803977000&usg=AOvVaw2Efrr2i2x8F9zjDH6BVxRw" href="http://scratch-books.co.uk/shop" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Reverse Engineering II</a></i> is available for pre-order now! </b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>It features stories from Ben Okri, Tessa Hadley, Wendy Erskine, Yiyun Li, Tom Drury, Eley Williams and Sussie Anie, each one followed by an incredible interview on how it was written.</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>You'll get a generous 15% off either (or both) of this publishers books before the publication date on 1st November. Use code "Subscribe15" at the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://scratch-books.co.uk/shop&source=gmail&ust=1665185803977000&usg=AOvVaw2Efrr2i2x8F9zjDH6BVxRw" href="http://scratch-books.co.uk/shop" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Scratch Books checkout</a> in October.</b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align: justify;">And, if you fancy buying a copy at any time, please do consider buying it directly from</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align: justify;">the publishers - it makes a huge difference.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></b></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: garamond, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">________________</div><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">4. A Boogie at Bedtime</b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">This week's Wendy Erskine news: From tomorrow (Monday 17th October) Wendy's second short story collection <i>DANCE MOVE</i> will be featured every night at 10:45pm on BBC Radio 4 in the prestigious 'Book at Bedtime' slot, starting with 'Mrs Dallesandro'. </b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________</b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">5. Ali Millar klaxon</b></p><p><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i>The Last Days: a memoir of faith, desire and freedom</i> tells the story of her journey to freedom after a life spent inside the confines of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. She will be in conversation with writer Darran Anderson.</b></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b>She’ll be joined by Matt Rowland Hill, author of Original Sins (Chatto), about his two great teenage loves: Jesus and Heroin; and Andy West, whose memoir, A Life Inside (Picador), brings into sharp focus prison life through a philosophical lens. Together they’ll discuss themes of faith, desire and freedom, and read from their work, rounded off with a special DJ set by Richard Norris.</b></span></span></p><p><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The groovy West End venue is The Social (nearest tube Oxford Circus)</span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Click here to buy a</b></span> <a href="https://thesocial.seetickets.com/event/ali-millar-the-last-days/the-social/2433366" style="border: none; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "open sans", "arial narrow"; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 2px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 150ms ease 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #2b00fe; text-decoration-line: underline;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b>TICKET</b></span></span></a></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">______________________</b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">6. One Dublin, Two Books</b></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Announced earlier this week - <i>The Coroner's Daughter</i> by Andrew Hughes is the 2023 One Dublin One Book Choice!</b></span></span></p><p><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">There will be a new edition published by @TransworldBooks and a programme of events next April.</b></p><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>And Andrew's predecessor ODOB authors </b></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Nuala O'Connor and Rónán Hession wer interviewed by David Butler</b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> at this year's Bray Literary Festival. Here's a recording:</b></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5lOhkumzao">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5lOhkumzao</a></b></span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_______________________</b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">7.Small Publishers Fair 2022</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">A reminder that </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96%26id%3Dad14c9aa88%26e%3D1bcb4d2ea3&source=gmail&ust=1665860441307000&usg=AOvVaw2NodiflhaXZIcchkPtOhNv" href="https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96&id=ad14c9aa88&e=1bcb4d2ea3" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">Small Publishers Fair</a><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;"> returns to Conway Hall on </span><strong style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October.</strong><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419;"><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">In addition to 69 publishers showing and selling their publications, and the exhibition (Bibliopoe: books by Steven J Fowler), there will be readings and talks both afternoons. </span></span></b></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96%26id%3D54d7467c40%26e%3D1bcb4d2ea3&source=gmail&ust=1665860441307000&usg=AOvVaw2p9zt7OSeUMx-JE2EeQatB" href="https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96&id=54d7467c40&e=1bcb4d2ea3" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">Click here for details.</a><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><strong style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">The Programme</strong></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">The free 20-page programme includes publishers' listings and featured books plus information on readings, talks and the exhibition. Download a PDF </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96%26id%3Dfa308f1a1e%26e%3D1bcb4d2ea3&source=gmail&ust=1665860441307000&usg=AOvVaw3x1aQug3cLF-iy_XCYfKXt" href="https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96&id=fa308f1a1e&e=1bcb4d2ea3" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">here </a><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">to plan your visit or browse the Fair from afar.</span><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><strong style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">On the day</strong></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">When you arrive at Conway Hall please go to reception to pick up a free copy of the printed programme and this autumn's issue of the excellent </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96%26id%3Db018d868ae%26e%3D1bcb4d2ea3&source=gmail&ust=1665860441307000&usg=AOvVaw2wFE6LRP7ikVFlYr31NZeG" href="https://smallpublishersfair.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=59b7649a93575d3789f4e1e96&id=b018d868ae&e=1bcb4d2ea3" style="color: #6dc6dd; font-size: 12px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">Brixton Review of Books</a><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">.</span><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;" /><span style="color: #6f6f6a; font-size: 12px; white-space: normal;">Conway Hall is in a lovely part of London just two minutes walk from Holborn tube. Admission to the Fair and all related events is free. Doors open at 11am and close at 7pm each day.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, </span></b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">London, WC1R 4RL</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Fair will feature some of the indies that have appeared in The Glue Factory (and in its earlier iterations). Bring cash, cards and totebags. If you see me, say hello!</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>____________________</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">8. The Pig's Back</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Pig’s Back</i> (named for Donegal’s Muckish mountain and for the phrase ar <i>mhuin na muice</i>, to be in luck) is a literary prose journal that aims to bring the rest of Ireland - and in turn, the world - to the northwest. Founded by the Regional Cultural Centre in Letterkenny, it publishes short fiction and essays.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Though we have a particular interest in writing from the northwest, we are eager to read work from all across Ireland, and beyond. Our main aim is to provide opportunities for those voices who have yet to be discovered, to help them define themselves and guide them in their careers. The future will bring workshops and residencies but for now we’re focused on the written word.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Pig’s Back</i> is produced by the Regional Cultural Centre in Letterkenny, in association with Donegal County Council and the Arts Council of Ireland. Design by Frontwards Design. Edited by Dean Fee and Emily Cooper.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>The Pig’s Back</i> seeks submissions of previously unpublished fiction and non-fiction. We accept work from anywhere in the world but currently can only accept English language pieces. We do not accept poetry.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The submissions window runs from 15th October to 15th November.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.thepigsback.ie/submit">https://www.thepigsback.ie/submit</a></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Courier; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">___________________</b></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; 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box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 css-1hf3ou5 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 css-1hf3ou5 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"> </span><b style="color: black; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"><b><span style="color: red;">Any requests?</span></b></b></span></div></div></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-1dbjc4n" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; 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font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-indent: -48px;">The last Glue Factory online gathering, on Sunday 11th December, will consist mostly of highlights from the previous 49 shows in the series and I'm open to suggestions and requests. So hit me up, as they say. What would you like to see? Or see again?</b></p><p style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: inherit; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-indent: -48px;">To help you choose, I've uploaded a list of programme content for the past 12 months on my website: <a href="https://davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site/general-clean">https://davidjcollard.wixsite.com/my-site/general-clean </a></b></p><p style="color: black; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><b>Email any thoughts and I'll do m'best to oblige.</b></p></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; 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box-sizing: border-box; color: red; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Courier;">10.<i> London Consequences 2</i><span style="font-style: inherit;"> - latest news</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-style: inherit;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">We've reached the half way point in this extraordinary collaborative novel. Nine of the 18 chapters have now been completed and submitted (and only the two editors know who has written each). We can't give much away apart from the fact that every contributor has smashed it. Each chapter is unique, blazingly original and very distonctive. This will be like no other fiction published in 2023. The writers involved are (alphabetically): </span></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Kevin Boniface, Marie-Elsa Bragg, Ruby Cowling, Wendy Erskine, Tim Etchells, Jonathan Gibbs, Shelley Hastings, David Hayden, Vlatka Horvat, Michael Hughes, Heidi James, Toby Litt, Linda Mannheim, Melissa McCarthy, Sam Mills, Simon Okotie, Ben Pester, Devika Ponnambalam and Eley Williams.</b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>The novel (as yet untitled) will be published in Spring 2023 by Bluemoose Books, with proceeds to The Trussell Trust. It's prompted by the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of <i>London Consequences </i>(1972), edited by Margaret Drabble and B. S. Johnson, which featured 18 anonymised authors each contributing a chapter. We've adapted the method to our digital age and have a cohort of writers that better reflects the diversity of London today. </b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">Gordon Burn Prize 2022 has been awarded to Preti Taneja </span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-14gqq1x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; 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font-size: x-small;"><b><span color="inherit" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;">that blurs genres and form to understand terror, trauma and grief.'</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-14gqq1x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span color="inherit" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-14gqq1x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; 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font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b>It's an account of what happened following the London Bridge attacks of November 29th, 2019. In a lyrical</b></span><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> anti-racist lyrical essay, Taneja explores what happened at the Fishmonger’s Hall in London when two people, Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt, were murdered by former prisoner Usman Khan, and more were injured.
The work is personal – Professor Taneja taught Khan while he was in prison. Jack Merritt, one of the people murdered during the attack, was her colleague.</b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-14gqq1x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-14gqq1x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Order <i>Aftermath</i> from the publishers here: <a href="https://www.transitbooks.org/books/aftermath">https://www.transitbooks.org/books/aftermath</a></b></span></span></div></div></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 15px;">____________________</b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 15px;"><br /></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Courier;">12. T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist</b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-size: small; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: normal;"><br /></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">Judges Jean Sprackland (Chair), Hannah Lowe and Roger Robinson this week announced the 2022 T. S. Eliot Prize shortlist</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">from a record 201 poetry collections submitted by British and Irish publishers.</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"><span> </span>Victoria Adukwei Bulley –</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">Quiet</em><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> (Faber & Faber)</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"><span> </span>Fiona Benson –</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">Ephemeron</em><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">(Cape Poetry)</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"><span> </span>Jemma Borg–</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">Wilder</em><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">(Pavilion Poetry/Liverpool University Press</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"><span> </span>Philip Gross –</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">The Thirteenth Angel</em><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">(Bloodaxe Books</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"><span> </span>Anthony Joseph –</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">Sonnets for Albert </em><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">(Bloomsbury Poetry)</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"><span> </span>Zaffar Kunial –</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">England’s Green </em><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">(Faber & Faber)</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"><span> </span>Mark Pajak –</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">Slide</em><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> (Cape Poetry)<span> </span></span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"><span> </span>James Conor Patterson –</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">bandit country</em><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> (Picador Poetry)</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"><span> </span>Denise Saul –</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">The Room Between Us</em><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">* (Pavilion Poetry/Liverpool University Press)<span> </span><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">Yomi Ṣode –</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;">Manorism</em><span style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: normal;"> (Penguin Poetry)</span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><p><b>Four of these - by Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Mark Pajak, James Conor Patterson and Yomi Sode - are debut collections. </b></p></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 15px;">____________________</b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px;"><div style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">13. Next week's online gathering</span></b></div><div style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">On Sunday 23rd October we'll share an online world premiere of the Irish composer David Bremner's brilliantly original new opera </span><span><i>Slow Recognition</i></span><span style="font-style: inherit;">.</span></span></b></div><div style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-style: inherit;">And we'll be taking a </span>close look at Alfred Hitchcock's most undervalued, critically-neglected film:<i> The Trouble with Harry</i><span style="font-style: inherit;">. It's also arguably his strangest. </span></span></b></div><div style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p class="p1" style="color: black; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify; white-space: normal;"><br /></p></span></b></div><div style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">____________________</b></div><div style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;">14. Nudge</span></b></div><div style="font-family: courier; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: x-small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></b></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">'Poor people are richer than you think' says </b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Thérèse Coffey, Deputy Prime Minister and, since last month, </b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Secretary of State for Health and Social Care.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>And Tories are far crueller than we can possibly imagine. Her words (callous, calculated, damning) remind me of Larkin's lines in 'Toads'</b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><div><span> </span><span> </span>Lots of folk live up lanes</div><div><span> </span><span> </span>With fires in a bucket,</div><div><span> </span><span> </span>Eat windfalls and tinned sardines —</div><div><span> </span><span> </span>they seem to like it.</div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span><span> </span>Their nippers have got bare feet,</div><div><span> </span><span> </span>Their unspeakable wives</div><div><span> </span><span> </span>Are skinny as whippets — and yet</div><div><span> </span><span> </span>No one actually starves.</div></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>I'd like to pin Coffey to a wall and ask her at what point, in her estimation, somebody is actually poor. When they run out of windfalls and tinned sardines? When they can't afford the medication they need to live? When they can't afford to heat and light their homes, and cook? When they <i>actually</i> starve? </b></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>To hell with Coffey and the whole blasted shower. </b></span></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> </b></span><b style="white-space: pre-wrap;">
Food Banks - one of the few growth industries in Tory Britain. In the last full year of the Labour government, 26,000 people used food banks. By 2021, it had risen to 2.56 million. In the year from April 2021 the Trussell Trust alone provided more than 2.1m emergency food parcels, 832,000 of them for children. That represents an 81% increase on the same period five years ago.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Poverty Profile 2022, around 14.5 million people are living in poverty in the UK. That’s more than one in five people. Of these, 8.1 million are working-age adults, 4.3 million are children and 2.1 million are pensioners. The energy and cost-of-living crisis are about to send those numbers soaring.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Please, <i>please</i> support The Trussell Trust.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: large;"><a href="goog_249090795"><b><br /></b></a></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/"><b>https://www.trusselltrust.org/make-a-donation/</b></a></span></span></div><div style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; white-space: inherit;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;">_______________</span></b></div></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b><span style="color: red;">PS</span><span style="color: #0f1419;"> </span></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b>A People Polling poll this week put the Tories on 19% (Nineteen per cent) with Labour on 53% - a 34-point lead. </b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b>If this actually happened at a general election, and it wouldn't, the Labour Party would secure a 430-seat majority and the Tories would be wiped out, left with four seats. (And the MPs holding those four seats would be </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>John Hayes, Matt Warman, Rebecca Harris and John Whittingdale.) This won't happen of course, but it's a thought to warm the cockles of my old red heart.</b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b>So let's have a general Election now. I want to see Jacob Rees-Mogg selling kisses for farthings on the meat racks of Piccadilly and Kwasi Kwarteng working in a Ladbrokes. As a cleaner. </b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><b>As for Liz Truss. Wouldn't it be just great if we never saw or heard a word from this insipid mediocrity ever again?</b></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__c8ftuqedd6a" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-55570559097421469722022-10-09T08:50:00.006+01:002022-10-09T09:27:40.782+01:00Newsletter 53<p><br /></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Here's a bumper number of the newsletter, with added Ernaux and extra indie press news. Fill your boots!</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">Newsletter contents</b></p><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. This week’s online gathering </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Bluemoose Books</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> CB editions</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Fitzcarraldo Editions</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Galley Beggar Press</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> Paper Visual Art</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> Tramp Press</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Unbound</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>4. Irish Literary Society</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>5. Ethiopian fiction</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><b>6. Annie Ernaux - Nobel Laureate 2022</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>7. Alex Pheby on <i>Malarkoi</i></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>8. Burgess klaxon!</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>9. <i>Multiple Joyce</i> review </b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>10. Small Publishers fair 2022</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>11. Joyce Joyce Joyce</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>12. BBC National Short Story Award 2022</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>13. Next week's online gathering</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>14. Nudge</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>The week will come when I don't have to kick off the newsletter with an appeal. This is not that week.</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-size: small;"><span class="s1" style="color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>Please give what you can, when you can. T</b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>he most far-reaching aid programme has been, and remains, the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. </b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>You can donate quickly and easily </b></span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here.</span></a></b></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: red;">2. This week’s online gathering</span><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Our 40th Glue Factory online gathering features </span></b></span><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Keiron Pim on <i>Endless Fligh</i>t, his dazzling new biography of the troubled writer Joseph Roth (1894-1939); </span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghQpTi3fHIOHDIbXuye-tu6oy5knjD3ETwueNUrvUCAy6HsYI8lPGsp5PCUTFvD-XEoYNEuI9GpOYsreyqCLFG7pjds_BaEviPTDQ9b4E-DMSgrhkWtBUAcAhEK2eeCCZUes9ARIT7Xrc3bEae76Yk-ltS-vPVI8nTFSBzlzF34xcltDSbZVeZGFfUzg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="716" data-original-width="514" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEghQpTi3fHIOHDIbXuye-tu6oy5knjD3ETwueNUrvUCAy6HsYI8lPGsp5PCUTFvD-XEoYNEuI9GpOYsreyqCLFG7pjds_BaEviPTDQ9b4E-DMSgrhkWtBUAcAhEK2eeCCZUes9ARIT7Xrc3bEae76Yk-ltS-vPVI8nTFSBzlzF34xcltDSbZVeZGFfUzg" width="172" /></a></b></div><b style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Susanna Crossman will be reading from her acclaimed essay ‘The Utopian Machine’ and sharing her thoughts on growing up in a 1970s commune; we'll see part of a theatre piece about food banks; the a</span></b><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">uthor and BDSM model Ariel Anderssen will talk us through Liz Truss and her suggestive accessories; and we'll have a tribute to the photographer Mark Gerson who this week celebrated his 101st birthday. </span></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">You'll get a live Zoom link at 6:30pm and the programme starts at 7:30. Do join us!</span></b><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>____________________</b></b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> </b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>Bluemoose Books</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
GHOST SIGNS by Stu Hennigan has been shortlisted for the </span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; color: #0f1419; flex-direction: row; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" dir="ltr" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">Books Are My Bag Readers Award (non-fiction category)</span></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
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</span></b></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-size: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">http</span><a href="http://nationalbooktokens.com/vote">nationalbooktokens.com/vote</a></b></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-size: 15px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>CB Editions</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Some good news from Charles Boyle:</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #505050;">Gert Hofmann’s </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cbeditions.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D28a9945e963c01505484df33d%26id%3D03c4dde742%26e%3Dc652d8e5e0&source=gmail&ust=1665248860834000&usg=AOvVaw3VCN7SJCFqv0ipbwlu7NZb" href="https://cbeditions.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a9945e963c01505484df33d&id=03c4dde742&e=c652d8e5e0" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><em>Veilchenfeld</em></a><span style="color: #505050;">, translated by Eric Mace-Tessler and published in 2020, had been puttering slowly along until late September, when in just two days it sold more copies out of the distributor’s warehouse (Central Books) than in the previous two years. The reason: a chance piece of product placement in Ian McEwan’s new novel, </span><em style="color: #505050;">Lessons</em><span style="color: #505050;">, in which ‘Alissa made reverential references to Gert Hofmann’s novel, </span><em style="color: #505050;">Veilchenfeld</em><span style="color: #505050;">’. Thank you, Alissa. And Mr McEwan. (Gert Hofmann’s </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cbeditions.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D28a9945e963c01505484df33d%26id%3Dfb1dab9fb3%26e%3Dc652d8e5e0&source=gmail&ust=1665248860834000&usg=AOvVaw3IWHD6_e9-r8DAjiupj3z3" href="https://cbeditions.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a9945e963c01505484df33d&id=fb1dab9fb3&e=c652d8e5e0" style="color: #336699;" target="_blank"><em>Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl</em></a><span style="color: #505050;"> is also available.)</span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #505050;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #505050;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;">And a reminder that the CB Editions Season Ticket</span> – 12 books for £75, post-free – is still available from the <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://cbeditions.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D28a9945e963c01505484df33d%26id%3Deeefe5451e%26e%3Dc652d8e5e0&source=gmail&ust=1665248860834000&usg=AOvVaw3-mV0n--BnNE7kCuwj036s" href="https://cbeditions.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=28a9945e963c01505484df33d&id=eeefe5451e&e=c652d8e5e0" target="_blank">website home page</a>. This offer has been running since the start of the first lockdown and last week was the first since March 2020 that Charles didn’t post out Season Ticket books. There must be more people out there, surely?</b></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"> If reading 12 books sounds like a big ask (but some of them are very slim), how about a shared Ticket? Charles will be happy to post to different addresses.</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>Fitzcarraldo Editions</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The French author Annie Ernaux was earlier this week awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature '</span></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory.'</b></span></span><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Congratulations to the heavy-hitting indie Fitzcarraldo, who now publish three living Nobel laureates! And congratulations to the translators, who deserve far more than a pat on the back!</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>More on this below! </b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b>Galley Beggar Press</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: red; font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>All Glue Factory regulars will be aware of Toby Litt's extraordinary year-long project <i>A Writers Diary</i> in which he shares a daily diary with followers. These will be complied and published by Galley Beggar on 1st January 2023.</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><i>A Writer's Diary</i> is a novel unlike any other. Based on Toby Litts’s successful Substack diary (which he has been updating every day this year since January)<i> A Writer’s Diary </i>has an entry for each day of a year. In these, Toby details his daily life, his thoughts on writing, the desk he is sitting at, the writers who have inspired him (including Virginia Woolf and her own Writer’s Diary.) It feels like a real record of a year in Toby’s life - but! This is also a carefully plotted and constructed novel encompassing several years of Toby’s real experiences, as well as flights of imagination and fiction. As the book progresses, we come to see that he is conveying far more than his day-to-day routine and reality. Incrementally, Toby helps us to understand the most important issues in his life, and in the experience of any human. It gives an intimate insight into Toby’s world, his creative process, and his family. It is a warm, compassionate, and generous assessment of what it means to be alive.</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span class="s1" style="font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none;"></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>It’s a lovely book - and deeply moving. It’s going to be released on 1 January and each entry will correspond to the day of the year on which it’s set. Which is to say, you’ll be able to read Toby’s entry for Thursday 12 January on Thursday 12 January. It’s going to be a reading project like no other. It’s a brave and splendid thing.</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Ordering now is a good idea. Because of the UK situation, GBP aren’t certain about how much we’ll have to charge for the book. 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font-size: 12px;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">On 5 October the Goldsmiths Prize announced its 2022 shortlist – a collection of six innovative novels that tackle matters of life, death and political resistance and span Scotland, south London, Brazil and the Indian Ocean. The £10,000 award, now in its tenth year and run in association with the New Statesman, celebrates fiction by authors living in the UK and Ireland that 'breaks the mould and extends the possibilities of the novel form.'</b></b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"></b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgrlHSXmeZq82Iu_kpA1DlgAJtt9gK84ZKALxOrGTVlfo0Ej7YcpARcYfubmuJfZbavjnmWOqn0dlpukn-Q07dtIy2mXmodeLAAsdXG-6dC0TfkThO3uZkG15GMZHU5sqcgLHq1xNHv2G5lsC63fUYC-vdVmlI2ZJNTzkKLH6PEcjx-NaRgtUMU3UNBQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="974" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgrlHSXmeZq82Iu_kpA1DlgAJtt9gK84ZKALxOrGTVlfo0Ej7YcpARcYfubmuJfZbavjnmWOqn0dlpukn-Q07dtIy2mXmodeLAAsdXG-6dC0TfkThO3uZkG15GMZHU5sqcgLHq1xNHv2G5lsC63fUYC-vdVmlI2ZJNTzkKLH6PEcjx-NaRgtUMU3UNBQ" width="164" /></a></b></b></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Congratulations to all publishers and authors, and especially to </b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b>Lisa Coen and Sarah Davis-Goff,</b></span></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> co-founders of this brilliant Dublin indie, on the shortlisting of <i>Seven Steeples</i> by Sara Baume.</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">The author has been a regular guest on The Glue Factory (and its earlier iterations) and it's wonderful to see this, her fourth book (and third novel) getting the attention it deserves. if you haven't discovered this already you can buy direct from the publishers </span></b><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><a href="https://tramppress.com/product/seven-steeples/">here.</a></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><br />Unbound</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">Are you a writer that:</span></b></p><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-6gpygo r-1fz3rvf" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px 12px 12px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-14gqq1x r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 4px 0px 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span> </span>- identifies as a writer of colour?
</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span> </span>- has written your first book?
</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><span> </span>- is previously unpublished?
Then go to </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" dir="ltr" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><a href="https://unbound.com/unbound-firsts/"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>unbound.com/unbound-firsts/</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><a href="https://unbound.com/unbound-firsts/ "> </a>to read more and submit your work</span></b></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"> </span></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">4. Irish Literary Society</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">The 2022/23 season started on 29th September (but was too late to include in the previous newsletter). Next up, at the Bloomsbury Hotel in Great Russell Street the poet James Conor Paterson will launch his debut collection<i> Bandit Country, </i>in conversation wit the writer Darran Anderson</b></span></p><header class="tribe-events-calendar-list__event-header" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #848484; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="tribe-events-calendar-list__event-datetime-wrapper tribe-common-b2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--tec-color-text-primary); font-family: var(--tec-font-family-sans-serif); font-size: var(--tec-font-size-2); font-weight: var(--tec-font-weight-regular); line-height: var(--tec-line-height-3); margin: 0 0 var(--tec-spacer-1); padding: 0px;"><time class="tribe-events-calendar-list__event-datetime" datetime="2022-10-17" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--tec-color-text-event-date); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="tribe-event-date-start" style="border: 0px; 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border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--tec-transition-border-color);" title="<i>Bandit Country</i>, James Conor Patterson – 17 October"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Bandit Country</i>, James Conor Patterson – 17 October</span></a></h3><address class="tribe-events-calendar-list__event-venue tribe-common-b2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--tec-color-text-primary); font-family: var(--tec-font-family-sans-serif); font-size: var(--tec-font-size-2); font-style: normal; font-weight: var(--tec-font-weight-regular); line-height: var(--tec-line-height-3); margin-bottom: var(--tec-spacer-3); margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span class="tribe-events-calendar-list__event-venue-title tribe-common-b2--bold" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: var(--tec-font-weight-bold); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Bloomsbury Hotel </span><span class="tribe-events-calendar-list__event-venue-address" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Bloomsbury Hotel, 16-22 Great Russell Street, London</span></span></address></header><div class="tribe-events-calendar-list__event-description tribe-common-b2 tribe-common-a11y-hidden" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--tec-color-text-primary); font-family: var(--tec-font-family-sans-serif); font-size: var(--tec-font-size-2); line-height: var(--tec-line-height-3); margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: var(--tec-spacer-3); padding: 0px; visibility: visible;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Joining us at the start of the ILS 2022-23 season are the poet James Conor Patterson and writer Darran Anderson to launch Patterson's book bandit country. bandit country is the much-anticipated debut collection from James Conor Patterson, who will be familiar to ILS regulars from our event last year launching his anthology of essays on the Irish border: The New ...</span></p><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="more-link" href="https://irishlitsoc.org/event/bandit-country-james-conor-patterson-17-october/" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-weight: 700; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Read More</span></a></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; 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Ethiopian fiction</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Last Sunday's online gathering featured translator Bethlehem Attfield on <span style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Lost Spell</i> by Yismake Worku. It's published by Henningham Family Press and available to order </span></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-weight: 400;">Bethlehem mentioned a number of books and writers during her brilliant summary of contemporary Ethiopian fiction and the long history of the country's literature. She has kindly provided the following list of essential texts for anyone interested in further reading:</span></b></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Adam Reta - <i>Requiem for Potatoes</i></span></b></div><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b></b></span></p><div style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Sebhat Gebre Egziabher - excerpts of his book narrated in English <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v%3DoUGrnqhPLMY%26t%3D2s&source=gmail&ust=1664950258060000&usg=AOvVaw2tsqWbFiNJceogma1B6wDw" href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oUGrnqhPLMY&t=2s" rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">Dawn Seems Elusive</a> </span></b></div><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Mulugeta Alebachew - <i>Heaven Without Prickly Pears</i> (Asymptote Journal and Hypocrite Readers Magazine)</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">List of Ethiopian books written in English </span></b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span> <i> </i></span><i>The Shadow King</i> by Maaza Mengiste </b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span> <i> </i></span><i>The Wife’s tale</i> by Aida Edemariam</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span> </span><i>Addis Ababa Noire:</i> <i>an Anthology</i> </b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span> </span><i>Tower in the Sky</i> by Hiwot Teffera</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b><span style="font-size: 12px;"></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span> <i> </i></span><i>The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears</i> by Dinaw Mengistu</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">6. Annie Ernaux</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: red; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUJo8cUWw_UWXVSmlCddt3yE3z9LViL6A0VFAvPwIUiDi5PCKG40xZ1Nn8FAZO5zJBidpUVCI00q285Wy5cUjkp7LtDt5ich08PcP2pWGHrFf5-T1cpbRF_FsYiJFedcwfU7V5NPINbv3FernkvnqQdVeonpv-JCmGMYz2rfNckfaF4yiN4gbpCRiCQw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="726" data-original-width="854" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUJo8cUWw_UWXVSmlCddt3yE3z9LViL6A0VFAvPwIUiDi5PCKG40xZ1Nn8FAZO5zJBidpUVCI00q285Wy5cUjkp7LtDt5ich08PcP2pWGHrFf5-T1cpbRF_FsYiJFedcwfU7V5NPINbv3FernkvnqQdVeonpv-JCmGMYz2rfNckfaF4yiN4gbpCRiCQw" width="282" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: red;"> </span>Nobel Laureate in Literature 2022</b></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Born in 1940, Annie Ernaux grew up in Normandy, studied at Rouen University, and later taught at secondary school. From 1977 to 2000, she was a professor at the Centre National d’Enseignement par Correspondance. Her books, in particular A Man’s Place and A Woman’s Story, have become contemporary classics in France. The Years won the Prix Renaudot in France in 2008, the Premio Strega in Italy in 2016, and was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2019. In 2017, Annie Ernaux was awarded the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her life’s work.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: 400;">Fitzcarraldo Editions has published eight titles by Annie Ernaux in English to date:</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br style="color: #202020; font-weight: 400;" /><span style="color: #202020; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: black;">— </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3Db3cdaf0d02%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1665146097184000&usg=AOvVaw33N6wotvvJVVlrFlLRrAYZ" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=b3cdaf0d02&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>The Years</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">, translated by Alison L. Strayer, a monumental account of twentieth-century French history as refracted through the life of one woman. <em>The Years </em>was shortlisted for the 2019 International Booker Prize.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #202020; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: black;"><br />— </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3D4f6ca2543b%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1665146097184000&usg=AOvVaw2ujZFGC_fufEqe5fij0k9V" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=4f6ca2543b&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Happening</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">, translated by Tanya Leslie, the story, written forty years later, of an abortion Ernaux had aged 23.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #202020; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: black;"><br />— </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3D2a05f499c8%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1665146097184000&usg=AOvVaw2p6H3ed-efpI2nkB237jcs" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=2a05f499c8&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>I Remain in Darkness</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">, translated by Tanya Leslie, recounting her attempts to help her mother recover from Alzheimer’s disease.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #202020; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: black;"><br />— </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3D03fa980e7f%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1665146097184000&usg=AOvVaw3vQB03_krIu3_kz1nbB3KS" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=03fa980e7f&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>A Girl’s Story</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">, translated by Alison L. Strayer, where Ernaux revisits the summer of 1958, spent working as a holiday camp instructor in Normandy, and recounts the first night she spent with a man. </span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #202020; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: black;"><br />— </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3Dc945eb263b%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1665146097184000&usg=AOvVaw0cGRNhzbkMw_GCIHRamXL1" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=c945eb263b&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>A Man’s Place</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">, translated by Tanya Leslie, scrutinizing her father and the shame that haunted him throughout his life.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #202020; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: black;"><br />— </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3D855eb73a34%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1665146097184000&usg=AOvVaw3_kbnk7IY7zmR0K-GjGeji" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=855eb73a34&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Simple Passion</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">, translated by Tanya Leslie, which plots the emotional and physical course of the two-year relationship recounted in her diary, <em>Getting Lost</em>.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #202020; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: black;"><br />— </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3Dbe3a519af1%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1665146097184000&usg=AOvVaw1hp_fFtGq8hsm-eOtQokre" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=be3a519af1&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Exteriors</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">, translated by Tanya Leslie, a collection of journal entries over the course of seven years, concentrating on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived environment.</span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #202020; font-weight: 400;"><span style="color: black;"><br />— </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3D8dd027ec81%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1665146097184000&usg=AOvVaw19gAMJ7udOeh7mieocePex" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=8dd027ec81&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;"><em>Getting Lost</em></span></a><span style="color: black;">, translated by Alison L. Strayer, the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, an attaché to the Soviet embassy in Paris.<br /><br />The </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3D5337be9695afc83be35de5125%26id%3D12657a14f4%26e%3D75c11b2d83&source=gmail&ust=1665146097184000&usg=AOvVaw2hymNIWQYf2Fi_4fPxiaQB" href="https://fitzcarraldoeditions.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5337be9695afc83be35de5125&id=12657a14f4&e=75c11b2d83" style="color: #007c89;" target="_blank"><span style="color: mediumblue;">Annie Ernaux Essentials Collection</span></a><span style="color: black;">, which includes <em>A Girl’s Story</em>, <em>Happening</em>, <em>The Years</em>, <em>A Man’s Place</em>, and <em>Simple Passion </em>is also available on our website.</span></span><br style="color: #202020; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400;" /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>7. Alex Pheby on <i>Malarkoi</i></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #313131; font-family: courier; font-weight: bold;">The great Alex Pheby will be giving a talk on ‘how to write a fantasy trilogy’ and signing copies of <i>Malarkoi </i>(the sequel to <i>Mordew</i>) in Topping in Edinburgh on Sunday 16th October. </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: courier;"><b><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://f69e.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m%3D6336a5b3ecb828135bc3cf89%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.toppingbooks.co.uk%252Fevents%252Fedinburgh%252Falex-pheby-2022%252F%26w%3D591373983a041126bc4478a6%26l%3Den-US%26s%3DReB3NBINx98ExgItNCMAckdbqPs%253D&source=gmail&ust=1664615423899000&usg=AOvVaw3-XwYGVwvZ53begmEk7ogb" href="https://f69e.engage.squarespace-mail.com/r?m=6336a5b3ecb828135bc3cf89&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.toppingbooks.co.uk%2Fevents%2Fedinburgh%2Falex-pheby-2022%2F&w=591373983a041126bc4478a6&l=en-US&s=ReB3NBINx98ExgItNCMAckdbqPs%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Details here</a>.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">8. 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This is a review writing competition with a prize fund of £4,000 and a chance to be published in </span><div class="css-1dbjc4n r-xoduu5" style="-webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; flex-direction: row;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/ObserverUK" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;">@ObserverUK</a></span></div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"> newspaper. Sharpen your quills and click here for more: </span><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1cvl2hr r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://t.co/ZoY6IRRIw5" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" role="link" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1d9bf0; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: inherit;" target="_blank"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span>anthonyburgess.org/observeranthon</a></span></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>Professor Andrew Biswell of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation sends news of t</b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: courier;">wo events coming up in Manchester this mon</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">The 2022 Anthony Burgess Lecture will be given by Robert Crawford at the Burgess Foundation in Manchester on Weds 12 October at 6:30 PM. His subject will be T.S. Eliot and the art of literary biography. Tickets £8 (or £6 for concessions). Details and booking via the link below.</span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/2022-anthony-burgess-lecture-robert-crawford-39936&source=gmail&ust=1664799412660000&usg=AOvVaw10iW9qsTz2olyh3lgW9qku" href="https://www.manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/events/2022-anthony-burgess-lecture-robert-crawford-39936" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">https://www.<wbr></wbr>manchesterliteraturefestival.<wbr></wbr>co.uk/events/2022-anthony-<wbr></wbr>burgess-lecture-robert-<wbr></wbr>crawford-39936</span></a><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: courier;">On 20 October at 6:00 PM the Burgess Foundation and Manchester University Press will be celebrating the publication of Mozart and the Wolf Gang, with a speech by Anthony Burgess and music composed by the late Alan</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Shockley, who edited the book. There will be a drinks reception and the An exhibition of Burgess's typewriters will be open. Free admission -- but please sign up in advance.<br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><br /></span></div><p style="background-color: white;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.anthonyburgess.org/event/literature-mozart-and-the-wolf-gang-book-launch/&source=gmail&ust=1664799412660000&usg=AOvVaw381m7gmk9AdOdczv584GN6" href="https://www.anthonyburgess.org/event/literature-mozart-and-the-wolf-gang-book-launch/" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: small;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: courier;">https://www.anthonyburgess.<wbr></wbr>org/event/literature-mozart-<wbr></wbr>and-the-wolf-gang-book-launch/</span></a></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b>___________________</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>9. <i>Multiple Joyce</i> reviewed by Stewart Walton</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>My book of one hundred short essays considering James Joyce's cultural legacy<span style="color: red;"> </span><span>continues to attract attention and here's a beautifully-written piece by Stewart Walton writing for the website </span></b></span></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.berfrois.com/2022/09/stuart-walton-on-eccles-street/">Berfrois</a>.</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">And the book, published in the United States by Sagging Meniscus Press, is again available to order in the UK </b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://gazellebookservices.co.uk/products/9781952386329">https://gazellebookservices.co.uk/products/9781952386329</a></b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibsMxolB1eckCFsE-NJQqdfTcDiO25sxmYiEeL6rvLsHBIdBW96LkIOdLMXE7QOES1qNLSbQQQpWVZgT205Qi9YfJ_UpBKVrpb7qZgKOX90XAw7SBW_TGB9xVe2CLF1zwnbXMzjA6rEsT2Htt7aEgzR0ximaRuRvyaZIMeT3uLuRuGUpV7rNsBclr_EA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="1688" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibsMxolB1eckCFsE-NJQqdfTcDiO25sxmYiEeL6rvLsHBIdBW96LkIOdLMXE7QOES1qNLSbQQQpWVZgT205Qi9YfJ_UpBKVrpb7qZgKOX90XAw7SBW_TGB9xVe2CLF1zwnbXMzjA6rEsT2Htt7aEgzR0ximaRuRvyaZIMeT3uLuRuGUpV7rNsBclr_EA" width="164" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">Buy as many copies as you can. There's surely no better way to celebrate the centenary this week of the day James Joyce began to write <i>Finnegans Wake</i> (13th October 1922).</span></b><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">10. Small Publishers Fair 2022</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;">A reminder!</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Small Publishers Fair returns to this much-loved venue later this month. Take cash, cards and a wheelbarrow.</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; font-weight: 400; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday 28th - Saturday 29th October 2022 11am - 7pm
Free admission to the Fair, readings and talks
Friday and Saturday 11am to 7pm
Includes entrance to Bibliopoe: an exhibition of books by Steven J Fowler
Conway Hall
Red Lion Square, London, WC1R 4RL</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Nearest tube: Holborn</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>11. Joyce Joyce Joyce</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #495057;">To celebrate the publication centenary of James Joyce's </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057;">Ulysses, </em><span style="color: #495057;">the EUF in collaboration with CAU-Kiel are hosting 11 guest lectures as part of a series entitled "21st-Century Joyce: </span><em style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057;">Ulysses </em><span style="color: #495057;">100 Years On." </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057;" /><span style="color: #495057;">Can Joyce be read today? How has his significance — i.e. literary, cultural, political, European, literary, editorial, national, international, modernist, ethical, controversial, canonical, experimental, transnational, etc. — changed from the 1920s to the 2020s? These are all questions that inform the talks. They will also consider Joyce’s cultural, literary, and national impact, through the lenses of decolonization, gender studies, narratology, intertextuality, literary theory, disability studies, geopolitics, new historicism, and cultural contextualization. </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057;" /><span style="color: #495057;">The objective of the series is to show that Joyce is as relevant today as he was in 1922 and to inspire non-specialist and specialist alike with an appreciation of Joyce’s work and Irish literature more generally. The centenary has prompted a massive surge in the field as well as deep considerations regarding Joyce’s relevance and impact 100 years on. Come join us and participate in this conversation!</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057;" /><span style="color: #495057;">These lectures are offered in hybrid form. You can join us in person or online (simultaneously). Please see below for the link and schedule. </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057;" /><span style="color: #495057;">All lectures delivered in English unless otherwise indicated. </span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhc-THMC9-F9lGmjzBzUJef2Ilo8n5P-uOaBHePr2Ul__0dOWvjz8-Ide9ENlkoOTrVSq3sOJhjfCqPAPbkyZrGYSU4mH9Am7IIwsy-msbmG_xF8Z48XRWRJK2Cy2uzJi9ESx75YqhbC4-UYqLwHR5N4rx6XRP7siRyWXU8vhX5O2CJPLU7XUH6DcrJ1A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="704" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhc-THMC9-F9lGmjzBzUJef2Ilo8n5P-uOaBHePr2Ul__0dOWvjz8-Ide9ENlkoOTrVSq3sOJhjfCqPAPbkyZrGYSU4mH9Am7IIwsy-msbmG_xF8Z48XRWRJK2Cy2uzJi9ESx75YqhbC4-UYqLwHR5N4rx6XRP7siRyWXU8vhX5O2CJPLU7XUH6DcrJ1A" width="168" /></a></b></span></div><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057; font-family: Roboto, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #495057;">Details for both </span><a class="inline-text-link page-unrestricted" href="https://www.uni-flensburg.de/?id=51941#c155183" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 153, 20); box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;">lecture series</a><span style="color: #495057;"> and associated </span><a class="inline-text-link page-unrestricted" href="https://www.uni-flensburg.de/?id=51941#c155195" style="border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(255, 153, 20); box-sizing: border-box; color: #495057; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.4s ease-in-out 0s;">reading group</a><span style="color: #495057;"> </span><a href="https://www.uni-flensburg.de/englisch/wer-wir-sind/mitarbeiterinnen-und-mitarbeiter/witen-michelle-prof-dr/21st-century-joyce-ulysses-100-years-on/james-joyce-lecture-series">here</a></b></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">12. </b></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">BBC National Short Story Award 2022</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">This years' winner is Saba Sams, for her short story 'Blue 4eva'.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">She drafted the story when she was 19 while studying creative writing at the University of Manchester, returning to it when she came to write her forthcoming debut collection <i>Send Nudes</i> a few years later.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">More details, and the full text of 'Blue 4eva' </b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/oct/04/saba-sams-wins-bbc-national-short-story-award-for-transportive-tale">here</a></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><b><span style="color: #121212; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">'Blue 4eva' is available to listen to on BBC Sounds, appears in the </span><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://guardianbookshop.com/the-bbc-national-short-story-award-2022-9781912697649" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BBC National Short Story Award 2022</a><span style="color: #121212; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;"> (Comma Press, £7.99) and in Saba Sams’ debut collection, </span><a data-link-name="in body link" href="https://guardianbookshop.com/send-nudes-9781526621771?utm_source=editoriallink&utm_medium=merch&utm_campaign=article" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #6b5840; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Send Nudes</a><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #121212; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </em><span style="color: #121212; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">(Bloomsbury, £14.99)</span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: GuardianTextEgyptian, "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">. </span></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">___________________</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: red;">13. Next week's online gathering</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Join us on Sunday 16th October for a programme featuring the acclaimed Dominican poet </b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: justify;">Celia A Sorhaindo, who will be reading from and discussing her first collection <i>Radical Normalisation</i>.</b></p><p class="p2" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space">Katy Derbyshire and Peter Freeth will introduce V & Q Books, with a fous on Identit by Mithu Sanyal and </span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a;">translator Alta L. Price. </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a;">V&Q Books is the English-language imprint of one of Germany’s most exciting independent publishing houses,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b><b>Voland & Quist.</b></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></span></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; min-height: 14px; text-indent: -48px;"><b>S J Fowler on his new novel <i>MUEUM </i>(and see the note above on this year's Small </b></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; min-height: 14px; text-indent: -48px;"><b>Publishers Fair)</b></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; min-height: 14px; text-indent: -48px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-indent: -48px;"><b>Melissa McCarthy, our roving reporter, returns.</b></p><p class="p5" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; min-height: 14px; text-indent: -48px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-indent: -48px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Bernadette Gorman on her extraordinary discovery that offers a new key to </b></span></p><p class="p6" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0px 48px; text-indent: -48px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>unlocking <i>Finnegans Wake<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></i></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">14. Nudge</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Many people in Britain are now having to choose between eating, heating, rent or mortgages. This callous government will disenfranchise benefit claimants to pay for tax rises for the rich.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">These are dark days for us all, but many suffer more than otghers and The Trussell Trust does a lot of good by running food banks throughout the country. Please support them. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Here's what Tory MP Lee Anderson (below) has to say about food banks:</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span>Every do-gooder is starting these little projects (foodbanks) to make <span> </span><span> </span>themselves feel good.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">What makes Lee feel good? Claiming </b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>£208,491 in expenses</b></span></span><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> on top of his MPs salary for one thing, and being nasty about National Treasure Jack Monroe (aka The Bootstrap Cook) for another. What a nasty piece of work. What an exemplary Tory.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNzpljcAjoJMsoCad1KVWn0PeqsBa5_7OEzcH1OeJbbUs9rZ-eloePVBsghizLYUiT5mtQ8V1HceBRKyEoyqcdWWXBzTx-TTFa3ZQcn5GVNXEQtj4aaKzQkw7Cem9UZlZfF5qQNDFxHFBMcqjnT8jc9Zwo0FA6GfV1sj7XAmy19waEkno27T_yX95MPg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjNzpljcAjoJMsoCad1KVWn0PeqsBa5_7OEzcH1OeJbbUs9rZ-eloePVBsghizLYUiT5mtQ8V1HceBRKyEoyqcdWWXBzTx-TTFa3ZQcn5GVNXEQtj4aaKzQkw7Cem9UZlZfF5qQNDFxHFBMcqjnT8jc9Zwo0FA6GfV1sj7XAmy19waEkno27T_yX95MPg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Imagine the moral and ethical depravity of anyone using 'do-gooder' as a disparaging term. Last year h</b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">e notoriously claimed that anyone could afford to eat a good home-made meal for 30p. For this reason he has been nicknamed </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">'30p Lee'. I can think of better names for this ambulant ballbag.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p></div></div></div></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-50206606058026161992022-10-02T06:22:00.008+01:002022-10-02T16:06:01.242+01:00Newsletter 52<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: courier;"><b>What do you think? What do you think about England, this country of ours where nobody is well? - W. H. Auden, <i>The Orators</i> (1932)</b></span></p><p><br /></p><p><b>___________________________________________________________________________</b></p><p><br /></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">Newsletter contents</b></p><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template" itemprop="blogPost" itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://schema.org/BlogPosting" style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; min-height: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3461160858526479778" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 570px;"><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br /></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. B. Catling</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. This week’s online gathering </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>4. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Broken Sleep Books</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Scratch Books</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> <span> </span>Tenement Press</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>5. Wendy Erskine masterclass</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><br /></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-size: 12px;"><b>6. </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b>Small Publishers Fair 2022</b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>7. Nemo's Almanac 2023</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>8. The Barbellion Prize</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>9. C. D. Rose klaxon!</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>10. This was the BBC World Service</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>11. </b><b>Fill your boots</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>12.<span> </span><span>How lo can you go? </span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span>13. NCLA forthcoming events</span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span>14. Money-saving hack</span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>15. </b><b>Next week's online gathering</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>16. Nudge</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p><span style="color: red;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">1. </b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">B. Catling (1948-2022)</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIG5fxULcZ28hhAsi6uuxS7xWUoztCxCc2oM_T4G5JS3JL9fiSVxAF-2k95GX0do8iDnvwbExEjNnjTqmhykzu3T-ZoSGNMw1Nv9iY1WU7EvndgIwaV6M7vdkOSU0vcnhS0pd6rcVbEX0Ir2P7ezT4Hkm0daPWGQPVjcU8l5MUWEvxzswucHjbwgtFWQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="474" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgIG5fxULcZ28hhAsi6uuxS7xWUoztCxCc2oM_T4G5JS3JL9fiSVxAF-2k95GX0do8iDnvwbExEjNnjTqmhykzu3T-ZoSGNMw1Nv9iY1WU7EvndgIwaV6M7vdkOSU0vcnhS0pd6rcVbEX0Ir2P7ezT4Hkm0daPWGQPVjcU8l5MUWEvxzswucHjbwgtFWQ" width="219" /></a></b></div><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b style="color: #fb0207; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></b></b></span></p><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Another great loss this week. Brian Catling was a poet, sculptor, author and performance artist of extraordinary range and depth.</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">Find time today, or soon, to watch this </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0011v76"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Where Does It All Come From?</span></a>, a compelling BBC Arena documentary</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">about his life and work. His surreal epic <i>The Vorhh Trilogy</i> - consisting of </span></b><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>The Vorrh</i> (2012) </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b><i>The Erstwhile </i>(2017)</b></span></span><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"> and <i>The Cloven</i> (2018) - is breathtakingly strange and original, a prose equivalent to Tarkovsky's <i>Stalker. </i></span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">We'll have a short tribute to Brian Catling at this week's online gathering.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">_____________________</b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">2. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><b style="color: black;"><b><span>The same message as last week, and every week, because the war drags on, and on and the news gets worse each week. </span></b></b><span class="s1" style="color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>Please give what you can, when you can. T</b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>he most far-reaching aid programme has been, and remains, the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. </b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none; font-weight: 400;"><b>You can donate quickly and easily </b></span><b style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here.</span></a></b></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">3. This week's online gathering</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>A tribute to the artist, writer and performer Brian Catling, who died earlier this week. </b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">New Ethiopian fiction - <i>The Lost Spell</i> by Yismake Worku. Publisher David Henningham will be in conversation with the translator Bethlehem Attfield).</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold;">On the 150th anniversary of Phileas Fogg's departure from the Reform Club in London to begin his journey around the world, we'll be joined by Dr Peter Urbach, the Club's archivist, for an exclusive tour of the exhibition celebrating t</span><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>he novel and its author.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Thoughts on the work of film maker and artist John Smith.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>You'll get a Zoom link at 6:30pm UK time and the programme starts at 7:30pm. Do join us!</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">4. Indie press news</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Broken Sleep Books</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><i>The Plum Review</i> collects work from a selection of brilliant contemporary writers, responding to William Carlos Williams’ poem ‘This is just to say’. Ranging from political anger, to mid-00s pop music references, this anthology promises to be an engaging, sweet, cold read<span style="color: red;">.</span></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Contributors: Hollie McNish, Ross Sutherland, Vahni (Anthony Ezekiel) Capildeo, Ian McMillan, Alice Kinsella, Gita Ralleigh, Sam Riviere, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, Jenna Clake, Aaron Kent, Will Harris, Maria Sledmere, Andrew McMillan, Taran Spalding-Jenkin, Bobby Parker, Chrissy Williams, Stuart McPherson, J. H. Prynne, John McCullough, Daniele Pantano, Jessica Mookherjee, Michael Pedersen, Rishi Dastidar, Ian Patterson, Robert Kiely, Carrie Etter, Peter Scalpello, Len Lukowski, Ed Wall, James Byrne, Jack Belloli, Chris Laoutaris, Rob Taylor, U. G. Világos, John Welson, Jeremy Noel-Tod, Charlie Baylis, Ziddy Ibn Sharam, Penelope Shuttle.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b><span style="font-size: 12px;"></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>This anthology is independently created and curated by Broken Sleep Books. 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font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https:</span>scratch-books.co.uk/shop</b></span></a></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__4hu43cd6f62" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__4hu43cd6f62" lang="en" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__4hu43cd6f62" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;">Tenement Press</span></b></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__4hu43cd6f62" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__4hu43cd6f62" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Steven J Fowler's new novella<i> MUEUM </i>is published by Tenement and he'll be appearing on the Glue Factory on to read from and discuss the book</b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__4hu43cd6f62" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__4hu43cd6f62" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #202020; white-space: normal;">In addition to the novella's launch at Brick Lane Books on Wednesday October 5th,</span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://theenemiesproject.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfaf956113cd2a96a41681f993%26id%3Df6ccb44246%26e%3D4111079575&source=gmail&ust=1664637669884000&usg=AOvVaw2iFb-aCxxT_fqKdzMBnUN8" href="https://theenemiesproject.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=faf956113cd2a96a41681f993&id=f6ccb44246&e=4111079575" style="color: #007c89; white-space: normal;" target="_blank"> https://bricklanebookshop.org/<wbr></wbr>events/#mueum</a><span style="color: #202020; white-space: normal;">, there will be additional launches as follows:</span><br style="color: #202020; white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #202020; white-space: normal;" /><span style="color: #202020; white-space: normal;">Thursday October 13th at 7pm, at Waterstones, Kingston Upon Thames </span></b></span></span></div><div class="css-901oao r-18jsvk2 r-37j5jr r-a023e6 r-16dba41 r-rjixqe r-bcqeeo r-bnwqim r-qvutc0" data-testid="tweetText" dir="auto" id="id__4hu43cd6f62" lang="en" style="border: 0px solid black; 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white-space: normal;" /><br style="color: #202020; white-space: normal;" /><span style="color: #202020; white-space: normal;">Sunday October 9th at 4pm, with Benedict Taylor, at Hundred Years Gallery </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://theenemiesproject.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u%3Dfaf956113cd2a96a41681f993%26id%3D2f5c3a5758%26e%3D4111079575&source=gmail&ust=1664637669884000&usg=AOvVaw3TEyR-L1ehmawhTEfy1xp7" href="https://theenemiesproject.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=faf956113cd2a96a41681f993&id=2f5c3a5758&e=4111079575" style="color: #007c89; white-space: normal;" target="_blank">http://<wbr></wbr>hundredyearsgallery.co.uk/<wbr></wbr>music-the-onion-boys/ </a></b></span></span></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">5. Wendy Erskine masterclass!</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaQSIS0tsYRdKINHRF7mWMQGxXyPGRsDucRL2kZRUINf7Jcn4LcuNKq6V-qhe3a0H6vC9ZpnexlNGWpixjdlIKFAGvNrGRaVJ0gkZScRFj_6364-lt9F_ePVv3QtRTorKHXu8LunmYVUtMIy4Mkt3gFPDfv5lMjr3l0PUKlX00fNUuBLT5_OmA1ht1pQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="568" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaQSIS0tsYRdKINHRF7mWMQGxXyPGRsDucRL2kZRUINf7Jcn4LcuNKq6V-qhe3a0H6vC9ZpnexlNGWpixjdlIKFAGvNrGRaVJ0gkZScRFj_6364-lt9F_ePVv3QtRTorKHXu8LunmYVUtMIy4Mkt3gFPDfv5lMjr3l0PUKlX00fNUuBLT5_OmA1ht1pQ" width="160" /></a></div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: inherit; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Wendy Erskine again! </b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: inherit; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Short and Sweet: The Art of Writing Short Stories is a one-off </b><b style="background-color: #fbfbfb; color: #222222; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Masterclass led by Wendy online</b><b style="background-color: #fbfbfb; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"> from 10am to 1pm on <span style="color: red;">Saturday 19th November 2022</span> </b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="background-color: #fbfbfb; font-family: courier; font-size: small;">Glue factory regulars will know what a wonderful writer Wendy is - now there's a chance to find out what a wonderful tutor she is also.</b></p><div class="grid-x" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; background-color: #fbfbfb; box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-flow: row wrap; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="eventMeta" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="dateTime" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/new-writing-south/short-and-sweet-the-art-of-writing-short-stories-masterclass-with-wendy-erskine/2022-11-19/10:00/t-xmmavgg"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/new-writing-south/short-and-sweet-the-art-of-writing-short-stories-masterclass-with-wendy-erskine/2022-11-19/10:00/t-xmmavgg</b></span></a></div><div class="dateTime" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></div></div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">6. Small Publishers Fair 2022</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">A welcome return after a two-year pandemic hiatus. This year<span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2022/">69 small publishers</a> </b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">will gather for two days at Conway Hall in Central London, including many that have featured on our weekly gathering: </b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday 28th and Saturday 29th October 2022, from 11am to 7pm.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">Admission is free to the Fair, to all readings and talks and to an exhibition curated by <a href="http://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/bibliopoe-books-by-steven-j-fowler-exhibition-2022/">S J Fowler</a>
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, </span></b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">London, WC1R 4RL</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nearest tube: Holborn (5 minutes away)</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Courier; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full details <a href="http://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/">here.</a></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Take cash, cards and tote bags.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">7. Nemo's Almanac 2023</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span>Among connoisseurs of literary competitions, the most coveted laurel has <span> </span><span> <span> </span></span>long gone to first-place mention in Nemo's Almanac </b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> - <i>New York Times</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPn_D2_HlXtSsv1gK5Tso0c1cbA3FRkmM9aBtySaegOMRIkGffqdGlRQXzYUDStUFs53XfAUUUonGdSRZJZwYPw_SgerhrgS_4_E9-Q4fOS6UCpWys7qjjmVLPve9OGca7O17r5Onr_drFrnMlrckB1r6fBWeqvPGk0WdOPdvNesl7cq3mvvWMYcpVqg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="355" data-original-width="474" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiPn_D2_HlXtSsv1gK5Tso0c1cbA3FRkmM9aBtySaegOMRIkGffqdGlRQXzYUDStUFs53XfAUUUonGdSRZJZwYPw_SgerhrgS_4_E9-Q4fOS6UCpWys7qjjmVLPve9OGca7O17r5Onr_drFrnMlrckB1r6fBWeqvPGk0WdOPdvNesl7cq3mvvWMYcpVqg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><p style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /> </span>A hot event in Literary Quiz Land... The longest-running and most </b></span></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">difficult literary competition in the world. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>- <i>Independent</i></b></p></b></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Appearing quietly every year since 1892 (and now in its 131st year), the latest edition of this</b></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> 'fiendish literary quotation quiz' is now available to order direct from the editor. We've featured <i>Nemo's Almanac</i> at our online gathering and it's a great if not especially well-known national asset. Its followers and competitors (two different communities that nevertheless sometimes overlap) are passionately committed to it.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span>You're an adult now, and you can take any kind of quiz you want. May I <span> </span><span> </span>recommend <i>Nemo's Almanac</i>, a very old, very pedigreed literary quiz? </b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>- <i>Paris Review</i></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">A perfect stocking-filler for all your bookish friends, and a year's reading for the price of tea and a bun. Available to order for just £4 per copy (3 for £10) plus £1 postage and packing).</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> The Editor</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span><span> </span>Nemo's Almanac</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span><span> </span>Magnolia House</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span><span> </span>High Street </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span><span> </span>Yoxford</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> Suffolk IP17 3EP</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>More about Nemo's history here: <a href="http://nemosalmanac.com">nemosalmanac.com</a></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">8. </b></span><b style="background-color: transparent; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">The Barbellion Prize</b></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The Barbellion Prize is a book prize dedicated to the furtherance of ill and disabled voices in writing. The prize is awarded annually to an author whose work has best represented the experience of chronic illness and/or disability.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The Prix Goncourt offers a symbolic €10 prize, where its prestige is the greater reward. In some way this would be interesting to pursue, book prizes always come with complex talk and discourse, and it’d certainly be easier at least to maintain the prize if some sort…</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>We can maintain our existence in finding a regular benefactor, sponsor, or by better fundraising. With all of that we still need more support in the short term. You can donate to the prize via Paypal:<span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><a href="https://www.thebarbellionprize.com/">https://www.thebarbellionprize.com/</a></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">9. </b></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">C D Rose</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">Glue Factory stalwart Chris Rose, writing about music. Very good piece.</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><a href="https://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/dancing-about-architecture/">https://www.rlf.org.uk/showcase/dancing-about-architecture/</a></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">10. This was the BBC World Service</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The BBC World Service has this week announced proposals to end radio services in</b></span></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> Arabic, Persian, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Hindi, Bengali, Chinese, Indonesian, Tamil, Urdu.</b><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> </b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Britain is closing down. As Will Eaves put it in an eloquent tweet:</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b>The diminution of the World Service cuts us off from foreign news, from the reality of life elsewhere, from a sense of cultural difference and interconnectedness. It’s hard not to see in it a sign of our authoritarian paranoid moment as an insular and failing state.</b></span></span></p><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b><br /><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>11. Fill your boots</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span>I've been writing for the </span><i>TLS</i><span> (or </span><i>Times Lit. Supp.</i><span> as we old timers still call it) since 2009 and you can find around forty of my reviews and articles </span><a href="https://www.the-tls.co.uk/authors/david-collard/">here</a>.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>My most recent review was of <i>Original Sins, </i>an addiction memoir <i>by</i> by Matt Rowland Hill, which was long listed last week for the 2022 <span color="inherit" style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; white-space: inherit;">Baillie Gifford Prize for non-fiction. </span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Full details of that BGP long list <a href="https://thebailliegiffordprize.co.uk/news/2022-baillie-gifford-prize-longlist-announced">here.</a> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;">I'm delighted to see a striking example of nominative determinism in the author of </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier;"><i>The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown. </i>Her name? Anna Keay.</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>12. How lo can you go?</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Let's all blow raspberries at everyone involved in commissioning, perpetrating and then signing-off the pisspoor new OUP logo, better suited to a type shop. How. Could. They.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5ozNAYTp8AOZOXGp42Y6VWi5UW2ojEflamAQgmX1Tnmg7hRKo3-ebX7lZBRaa9WASnYJpKWhVygXwFrUfMCWWgUjgb2hQLGE8ETlk7-FEU1yKtRnq5DidaWhzTKC9RsJnz_DRnoVZzAWNZjJx0NZPVMOWBq6LgZD_hApNBQ9MQSkzfwfSvPYp1bksgg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="604" data-original-width="1028" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5ozNAYTp8AOZOXGp42Y6VWi5UW2ojEflamAQgmX1Tnmg7hRKo3-ebX7lZBRaa9WASnYJpKWhVygXwFrUfMCWWgUjgb2hQLGE8ETlk7-FEU1yKtRnq5DidaWhzTKC9RsJnz_DRnoVZzAWNZjJx0NZPVMOWBq6LgZD_hApNBQ9MQSkzfwfSvPYp1bksgg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>It was apparently introduced a year ago, and went largely unnoticed, but is now circulating on the internet and universally derided..</b></span><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">13. NCLA forthcoming events</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Preti Taneja, </b></span></span><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Director of Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, this week announced the Autumn season of</b></span></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> free, public events featuring some of the most brilliant writers, poets, theatre makers working today, with </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">readings and discussions with outstanding talent in prose, poetry, theatre and journalism, talking climate change, fandom, refugees, disability rights and more...</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><a href="https://www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla/events/">https://www.ncl.ac.uk/ncla/events/</a></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">14.</span><span> Money-saving hack</span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Do you depend on published research for your work? 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Next week's online gathering</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><p class="p1" style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>Author Keiron Pim on <i>Endless Flight</i>, his acclaimed biography of Joseph Roth. Susanna Crossman reads from and discusses her brilliant Aeon essay about being raised in a commune. The author Ariel Anderssen, former Jehovah's Witness and now an award-winning BDSM model, will talk us through the current Prime Minister's choice of personal accessories and what they say about her. Plus some lost Auden poems, if there's time.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">16. Nudge</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25, states that "everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family". Yet in the UK, in 2022, hundreds of thousands of men, women and children are going hungry and cold.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>Former Tory MP Edwina Currie spoke in 2014 of being 'very, very troubled at the number of people who are using food banks who … never learn to cook, they never learn to manage and the moment they’ve got a bit of spare cash they’re off getting another tattoo.' </b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Read what Matthew Sweet has to say about such a perspective<span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://unherd.com/2020/07/let-food-bank-clients-eat-cake/">here.</a></b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>As for Kwas Kwarteng's wreckless budget, which takes from the poor and gives to the rich, here's what one high earner has to say about his windfall:</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>“I’ll be at least £50k better off – a gigantic pile of free money that I didn’t ask for, don’t need and which doesn’t affect my lifestyle. And incidentally, because I earn in dollars, and my pension stocks are in dollars, I have been given another pile of money because of the weak pound. It’s obscene and personally embarrassing. Give £5k to 10 poorer people instead. Imagine having to explain to someone on £30k, what I’ve just received.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>“It’s laughable. I don’t understand what I’m meant to do with this boon, to help the economy. Spend it? I don’t need more stuff. My business doesn’t need it. Put it in my pension? Surely that doesn’t help anyone. I will give it away to charities, but I don’t know how that’s an efficient routing of the money.” </b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b> - James, 48, a strategy consultant from London</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">More on that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/01/high-earners-kwasi-kwarteng-ditching-top-tax-rate">here.</a></span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p></div></div></div></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8534536753236336876.post-44563770946624442772022-09-25T00:00:00.002+01:002022-09-25T18:18:10.094+01:00Newsletter 51<p><br /></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGV4Oe9JObDQvVpIAnTc1J_CC9f-wVNb6UaUhLLW1weVqI12eO61mJfaRiaIuukSa57hGPR03J9UcdyvXo_n8zJ0nUrJfaIaHwqAMozPh3l0apyNNYSI3-taCWXo85zKdttBYBPPZISomKtVjvIiBS4zAqVu0anmzP_BfIBy_USEW76GyqsO7VIowg8A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="852" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgGV4Oe9JObDQvVpIAnTc1J_CC9f-wVNb6UaUhLLW1weVqI12eO61mJfaRiaIuukSa57hGPR03J9UcdyvXo_n8zJ0nUrJfaIaHwqAMozPh3l0apyNNYSI3-taCWXo85zKdttBYBPPZISomKtVjvIiBS4zAqVu0anmzP_BfIBy_USEW76GyqsO7VIowg8A" width="196" /></a></b></div><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /><b><br /></b></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>A terrible loss to literature. </b></b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Hilary Mantel was a formidably gifted and original novelist and if you get this newsletter you've almost certainly read some of her books. If not, don't hesitate. </b></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 13.2px;">From the LRB website:</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">Hilary Mantel was the author of nine novels and three collections </span></b></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">of short stories in addition to her prize-winning trilogy about Thomas </span></b></span></span><span style="font-family: courier;"><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">Cromwell. She began to write for the </span><em style="background-color: #fafaf7; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="caps lrb-auto-caps" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LRB</span> </em></span><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">in 1987 and contributed more</span> </span></b></span><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">than fifty pieces to the paper on subjects ranging from some of the Tudors who appear in her trilogy (</span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n08/hilary-mantel/frocks-and-shocks" style="background-color: #fafaf7; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;">Jane Boleyn</a><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">, </span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v31/n18/hilary-mantel/the-crowe-is-white" style="background-color: #fafaf7; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;">Queen Mary</a><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">, </span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n06/hilary-mantel/how-to-be-tudor" style="background-color: #fafaf7; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;" title="">Charles Brandon</a><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;"> and </span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n03/hilary-mantel/how-do-we-know-her" style="background-color: #fafaf7; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;" title="">Margaret Pole</a><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">) to some of the figures who appear in </span><em style="background-color: #fafaf7; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Place of Greater Safety</em><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">, her novel about the French Revolution: Danton, Robespierre (twice),</span></b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;"> </span></b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n10/hilary-mantel/rescued-by-marat" style="background-color: #fafaf7; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;" title="">Théroigne de</a> </b><b style="background-color: white; font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v14/n10/hilary-mantel/rescued-by-marat" style="background-color: #fafaf7; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;" title="">Méricourt</a><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;"> and </span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v21/n19/hilary-mantel/fatal-non-readers" style="background-color: #fafaf7; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;" title="">Marie Antoinette</a><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">. </span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v35/n04/hilary-mantel/royal-bodies" style="background-color: #fafaf7; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;" title="">Royal Bodies</a><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">, her Winter Lecture for the </span><em style="background-color: #fafaf7; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="caps lrb-auto-caps" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LRB</span></em><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">, considered the public perception of royal women from Anne Boleyn to Kate Middleton: ‘we don’t cut off the heads of royal ladies these days, but we do sacrifice them.’ She also published several pieces of memoir in the </span><em style="background-color: #fafaf7; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="caps lrb-auto-caps" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">LRB</span></em><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">, on her </span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v25/n01/hilary-mantel/giving-up-the-ghost" style="background-color: #fafaf7; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;">childhood</a><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">, the misdiagnosis of her </span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v25/n02/hilary-mantel/little-miss-neverwell" style="background-color: #fafaf7; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;" title="">endometriosis</a><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;"> as mental illness, and the childlessness that was its </span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v25/n03/hilary-mantel/memories-of-catriona" style="background-color: #fafaf7; border-bottom-color: rgb(216, 216, 212); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-skip-ink: auto; transition: color 0.2s ease 0s, border-color 0.2s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline; will-change: color, border-color;">result</a><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;">. </span><em style="background-color: #fafaf7; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #494746; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mantel Pieces: ‘Royal Bodies’ and Other Writing for the London Review of Books</em><span style="background-color: #fafaf7; color: #494746;"> was published by Fourth Estate in 2020.</span></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.2px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b>The LRB has removed the paywall so you can read her matchless essays<span style="color: #fb0207;"> </span><a href="https://www.lrb.co.uk/contributors/hilary-mantel"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here.</span></a></b></span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #fb0207; font-family: Courier; 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color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>1. Aid for Ukraine</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>2. This week’s online gathering </b></span></p><p class="p20" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b></b></span><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span> </span><span> Fitzcarraldo Editions</span><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> Galley Beggar Press</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><span><span> </span><span> Salt Publishing</span><br /></span></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>4. </b></span><b>Barbellion Prize</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>5. Rufo Quintavalle klaxon!</b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s1" style="font-kerning: none;"><b>6. </b></span><b>Yuri Felsen's <i>Deceit</i> - a rescheduled launch in Bloomsbury</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">7.<span> </span></b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Short Fiction/University of Essex Short Story Prize </b></span></span></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span><br /></span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span>8. </span></b><b>John Smith on MUBI</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>9. </b><b style="background-color: transparent;">Small Publishers Fair 2022</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>10. Horse attitudes</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>11.<span> </span></b><b>Hobnobbing at Boogaloo</b><b><span> </span></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>12. </b><b>Next week's online gathering</b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><br /></b></p><p class="p21" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>13. Nudge</b></p></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><span style="color: red;">1. Aid for Ukraine</span></b></b></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier;"><b><span>The same message as last week. </span></b></b><span class="s1" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>Please give what you can, when you can. T</b></span><span class="s1" style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>he most far-reaching aid programme has been, and remains, the British Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal. </b></span><span class="s1" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-kerning: none;"><b>You can donate quickly and easily </b></span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Courier;"><a href="https://donate.redcross.org.uk/appeal/ukraine-crisis-appeal" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here.</span></a></b></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>_____________________</b></b></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: 12px;"><b>2. This week's online gathering</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYPrJN_K25wSIgMCzh8k570CCTEztK2dZ2XLEn9TdTqmpjZv-Zv3ZAZlXFeP6RUypk4WRMeN1m02KFWuU4UUZjeeIoKZXyreDObqKzK1E5o5OiaiqtDYpE0J8Ie4QiWN2wba9pT1eA0Gg5HVNiawExU2CeK5TvUQZUGhTWaudrInH9zmQ0UsK1LmxLmA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="180" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYPrJN_K25wSIgMCzh8k570CCTEztK2dZ2XLEn9TdTqmpjZv-Zv3ZAZlXFeP6RUypk4WRMeN1m02KFWuU4UUZjeeIoKZXyreDObqKzK1E5o5OiaiqtDYpE0J8Ie4QiWN2wba9pT1eA0Gg5HVNiawExU2CeK5TvUQZUGhTWaudrInH9zmQ0UsK1LmxLmA" width="154" /></a></b></p><p><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small; text-align: justify;">Part of this week's programme marks T. S. Eliot's birthday (tomorrow, in fact) with a staged reading of his bizarre and very rarely-performed short play <i>Sweeney Agonistes: Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama, </i>with a cast featuring Paige Niblet and Alex Kapila as Dusty and Doris, David Henningham as Sam Wauchope), Ray Davis (Klipstein/Swarts), Tony White (Krumpacker/Snow) and myself as Sweeney. </b></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"></span></div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhabvJ50ylRJdTaYs7UYM7oHqrDvd0ICcHxKscO05NG5grkuhDvAHn5X3RGz9LctkKgcovCYArcvYA3ettATwGsttjElblQMCDBLoZGcUbBoeXHDV5CLAe5sHLLvrdlBN9e34QQrYTsutV3rGNo6_lBVTzuewXf7P7EpfkhyLa1SYiykzmmdBSQR9mUmA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="2494" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhabvJ50ylRJdTaYs7UYM7oHqrDvd0ICcHxKscO05NG5grkuhDvAHn5X3RGz9LctkKgcovCYArcvYA3ettATwGsttjElblQMCDBLoZGcUbBoeXHDV5CLAe5sHLLvrdlBN9e34QQrYTsutV3rGNo6_lBVTzuewXf7P7EpfkhyLa1SYiykzmmdBSQR9mUmA" width="320" /></a></div><br /></b></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Kevin Davey will introduce the play and afterwards talk about his novel <i>Playing Possum,</i> which took <i>Sweeney Agonistes</i> as a starting-point. We'll welcome back our roving reporter Melissa McCarthy, who will share some thoughts about 'wobbly photographs'. And I'll be looking at the promotion of British values overseas in 1933 (the year Eliot's play was first performed). What we<i>re</i> those values? And what are they now?</b></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>_____________________</b></b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>3. Indie press news</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Fitzcarraldo Editions</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span><b>The mighty Fitzcarraldo this week released their Spring 2023 catalogue - and it's simply breathtaking!</b></span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">January</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>The Birthday Party</i> by Laurent Mauvignier, tr. Daniel Levin Becker </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>February</b> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>The Private Lives of Trees</i> by Alejandro Zambra, tr. Megan McDowell </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>Affinities</i> by Brian Dillon </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>Owlish</i> by Dorothy Tse, tr. Natascha Bruce </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>March</b> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>Melancholy I-II</i> by Jon Fosse, tr. Damion Searls with Grethe Kvernes </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>Porn: An Oral History</i> by Polly Barton </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>While We Were Dreaming</i> by Clemens Meyer, tr. Katy Derbyshire </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>April</b> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>The Long Form</i> by Kate Briggs
Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Penman </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>Macunaíma</i> by Mário de Andrade, tr. Katrina Dodson </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>May</b> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>This is Not Miami</i> by Fernanda Melchor, tr. Sophie Hughes
Brian by Jeremy Cooper </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>June</b> </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>The Plague</i> by Jacqueline Rose </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>A Very Easy Death</i> by Simone de Beauvoir, tr. tbc </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i><span> </span>Mild Vertigo</i> by Mieko Kanai, tr. Polly Barton</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>Full details of all these and other Fitzcarraldo publications<span style="color: red;"> </span><a href="https://fitzcarraldo-editions.s3.amazonaws.com/files/Spring-2023-catalogue-1663770735566.pdf"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">here.</span></a></b></span></span></p><div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span></span></div><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Galley Beggar Press</b></span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Many of you will be following Glue Factory favourite Toby Litt's absorbing year-long project <i>A Writer's Diary</i> - daily entries of which he shares to online subscribers.</b></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span><b>This diary will be published in book form by Galley Beggar Press on 1st January 2023 and </b></span></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>you can now pre-order. All pre-orders will be signed first editions, and come with a limited edition set of three especially designed bookmarks.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>Pre-order (and read an extract)<span style="color: #2b00fe;"> <a href="https://www.galleybeggar.co.uk/paperback-shop/a-writers-diary">here.</a></span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span style="color: red;"><b>Salt Publishing</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="vendor" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #161515; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: -15px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: 700;">Best British Short Stories 2022</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #161515; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth year.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #161515; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor is the author Nicholas Royle (well known to Glue Factory audiences) and his brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, collections, magazines, newspapers and web sites, looking for the best of the bunch to reprint all in one volume.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #161515; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">This year the authors include Glue Factory contributors <b>Ben Pester</b> and <b>Tony White</b> (whose brilliant and hilarious story 'Plain Speaking' was written for The Glue Factory and featured on the show in March). </span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #161515; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">There is also a story by the late <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/03/uschi-gatward-obituary"><b>Uschi Gatward</b></a> author of <i>English Magic,</i> who sadly died last year.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Courier;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"></span></span></p><div class="description" itemprop="description" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><h3 style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px auto 15px 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #161515; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Published by Salt on 14th October. Pre-order</span><span style="color: #161515; font-family: courier; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://www.saltpublishing.com/collections/new-books-2022/products/best-british-short-stories-2022-9781784632489" style="font-family: courier;">here.</a></span></h3></div><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>_</b></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b>____________________</b></b></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">4. </b><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">The Barbellion Prize</b></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The Barbellion Prize is a book prize dedicated to the furtherance of ill and disabled voices in writing. The prize is awarded annually to an author whose work has best represented the experience of chronic illness and/or disability.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The Prix Goncourt offers a symbolic €10 prize, where its prestige is the greater reward. In some way this would be interesting to pursue, book prizes always come with complex talk and discourse, and it’d certainly be easier at least to maintain the prize if some sort…</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>We can maintain our existence in finding a regular benefactor, sponsor, or by better fundraising. With all of that we still need more support in the short term. You can donate to the prize via Paypal:<span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><a href="https://www.thebarbellionprize.com/">https://www.thebarbellionprize.com/</a></b></span></span></p><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">5. Rufo Quintavalle klaxon!</span></b></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Paris-based poet and actor Rufo has sent advance warning about a couple of happenings coming up either side of the Channel in the first week in October.</div></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">On Monday October 3rd he will be the featured guest at <i>Spoken Word Paris</i> reading from his new book, <i>Shelf</i>, which is a line-by-line rewrite of Walt Whitman's <i>Song of Myself</i>. This featured on Carthorse Orchetsra last year, as I'm sure many of you will recall. <i>Shelf </i> was published last year by awesome New Jersey publisher Sagging Meniscus Press but because of Covid Rufo never really had a launch party - so consider this a belated launch! You are all cordially invited to Au Chat Noir, 76 rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud, 75011 Paris from 20h onwards. Details below:</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://spokenwordparis.org/&source=gmail&ust=1663577499030000&usg=AOvVaw0-Z9B2GuAVUnIMsQgf0ruh" href="https://spokenwordparis.org/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">https://spokenwordparis.org</span></a></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/shelf/&source=gmail&ust=1663577499030000&usg=AOvVaw3GlNJkv4AFf-Pq-PQpzx5Y" href="https://www.saggingmeniscus.com/catalog/shelf/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.saggingmeniscus.<wbr></wbr>com/catalog/shelf/</a><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">And for readers in the UK <i>The Passengers of the Night</i> will be having three special screenings on the 5th and 6th October in London's West End as part of the BFI London Film Festival. Rufo acted in this film last year - again during those strange days of Covid and confinement - and (he says) is very proud that it will be screening in his home town. </span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink%3Dpassengersofthenight&source=gmail&ust=1663577499030000&usg=AOvVaw2nQPez0KHWFkIbhJQtUPui" href="https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/lff/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=passengersofthenight" rel="nofollow" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/<wbr></wbr>lff/Online/default.asp?<wbr></wbr>BOparam::WScontent::<wbr></wbr>loadArticle::permalink=<wbr></wbr>passengersofthenight</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="description" itemprop="description" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">6. </span></b><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i>Deceit</i> in Bloomsbury</b></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The rescheduled launch of Yuri Felsen's <i>Deceit</i>, featuring the book's translator Bryan Karetnyk </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Josephine von Zitzewitz and Toby Lichtig is at Pushkin House in Bloomsbury at 7pm on Wednesday 5th October</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;"><br /></span></span></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><a href="https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/felsen-deceit-prototype-publishing">https://www.pushkinhouse.org/events/felsen-deceit-prototype-publishing</a></b></span></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /><br /></b></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">7. SHORT FICTION/UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY PRIZE </span></b></span><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The winner of this year's prize is 'AOIFE'</span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Trahearne Falvey. </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Read it here, brilliantly illustrated by Rebecca Cottrell: </span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span aria-hidden="true" class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-hiw28u r-qvk6io r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" color="inherit" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 0px; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: inherit;">https://</span><a href="http://buff.ly/3S8LxQS">buff.ly/3S8LxQS</a></span></b></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0f1419; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>He has a website: <a href="https://trahearnejf.wordpress.com/">https://trahearnejf.wordpress.com/</a></b></span></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center; white-space: normal;"></div></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: red; display: inline; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>8. An Post Irish Book Award</b></span></div><div><p></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The 2023 longlist was announced this week.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The judging panel of Bob Johnston of the Gutter Bookshop and literary agent Simon Trewin, was joined by Rachel Donohue whose short stories were shortlisted for the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award in 2013 and 2014 and who won New Irish Writer of the Year in 2017. Her critically acclaimed novels, <i>The Temple House Vanishing</i> and <i>The Beauty of Impossible Things</i> are published by Corvus. </b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Our judges have the unenviable task of choosing a shortlist from the longlisted authors listed below. The shortlisted stories will then be published here at Writing.ie later in October so that you, the readers, can decide on the winner of the Writing.ie Short Story of the Year 2023.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>The shortlist will be announced in October, when those stories will appear in print.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>Congratulations to the following authors, listed in no particular order:</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span> </span></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span> </span><span> </span>Roisín O’Donnell </b></span></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Eamon McGuinness </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Wendy Erskine</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span><span> </span>Nuala O’Connor<span> </span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Tim MacGabhann<span> </span><span> </span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Sheila Armstrong</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span><span> </span>David Butler<span> </span><span> <span> </span></span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Neil Tully<span> </span><span> </span><span> </span></b><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Danielle McLaughlin</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span><span> </span>Colin Barrett<span> </span><span> </span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Twist Phelan<span> </span><span> </span></b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Rebecca Miller</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">(Particular congratulations to Glue Factory favourites Wendy Erskine and Nuala O';Connor!)</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">8. </b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">John Smith on MUBI</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Here's a thing - you can get MUBI free online for seven days and currently available are the films of John Smith. If you don't already know his work you have a treat in store.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><a href="https://mubi.com/specials/john-smith">https://mubi.com/specials/john-smith</a></b></span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2em; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;">In the 1970s, Smith was an active member of the London Filmmakers’ Cooperative, an artist-run organization dedicated to the moving image, and largely associated at this time with the formalist rigor of so-called structural or materialist film. Alongside these influences, the Walthamstow-born artist was also interested in the potential of narrative and the power of humor. Taking to the streets of London (as well as looking, often, to its skylines), he observes the world with unwavering wit. On top of this, Smith captures a certain kind of East End Englishness that takes pleasure in pubs, puns, and rhymes. Smith ends up finding poetry in all sorts of unexpected places: even in the label on a bottle of laundry liquid.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2em; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Girl Chewing Gum</em><span style="font-family: courier;"> (1976) rightly remains a classic of experimental film: like the later </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Shepherd’s Delight</em><span style="font-family: courier;"> (1986) and </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Black Tower</em><span style="font-family: courier;"> (1987), it playfully and surprisingly undermines the assumed power of the director and the first-person voiceover. Smith’s irreverence toward authority extends to British bureaucracy, as seen in </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blight</em><span style="font-family: courier;"> (1996) and </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Citadel</em><span style="font-family: courier;"> (2021), two takes on the city symphony genre that are heavy not with awe, but with protest. Both rally community spirit. If Smith meddles with our perception, then it is to sharpen our collective critical eye. When </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Om</em><span style="font-family: courier;"> (1986) and </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: courier; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Dad’s Stick</em><span style="font-family: courier;"> (2012) ask us to look and then to look again, Smith is reminding us, ultimately, that what we’re being told might not always be the whole picture.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">9.Small Publishers Fair 2022</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">A welcome return to this highlight of the publishing year following the pandemic. This year<span style="color: red;"> </span></b></span><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/publishers-2022/">69 small publishers</a> </b><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">will gather for two days at Conway Hall in Central London, including many that have featured on our weekly gathering: </b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">Friday 28th and Saturday 29th October 2022, from 11am to 7pm.</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">Admission is free to the Fair, to all readings and talks and to an exhibition curated by <a href="http://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/bibliopoe-books-by-steven-j-fowler-exhibition-2022/">S J Fowler</a>
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, </span></b></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">London, WC1R 4RL</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span face="TwitterChirp, -apple-system, "system-ui", "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #0f1419; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nearest tube: Holborn (5 minutes away)</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #0f1419; font-family: Courier; font-size: small; white-space: pre-wrap;">Full details <a href="http://smallpublishersfair.co.uk/">here.</a></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Take cash, cards and tote bags.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">10. Horse attitudes</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">It's a happy coincidence that two of the very best novels published this year, by two of my favourite authors, both happen to share an interest in the White Horse of Uffington, an ancient chalk figure carved into chalk on an Oxfordshire hillside. Here it is. But can you name the novels (answer at the foot of the newsletter).</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiaxJWOf_MzYh7zdQ0NMcgmPo9UiOgWNgPxCDStDW-2uIgl3l4WyJecG4UYTED7eJ8Hv9vvampyyadWbS2suxXP62skWyMgdMoqvBojLqLnDBNMEsc2DG8y5LIdqw27pyAJCWmnrEEx-pYm0Hyj2-QxIroYAN6GQT8C1erRpSYIduB_hxsMfXVVjDofw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="143" data-original-width="352" height="130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhiaxJWOf_MzYh7zdQ0NMcgmPo9UiOgWNgPxCDStDW-2uIgl3l4WyJecG4UYTED7eJ8Hv9vvampyyadWbS2suxXP62skWyMgdMoqvBojLqLnDBNMEsc2DG8y5LIdqw27pyAJCWmnrEEx-pYm0Hyj2-QxIroYAN6GQT8C1erRpSYIduB_hxsMfXVVjDofw" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /><br /></b></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">11. Hobnobbing at Boogaloo</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Your newlsetter editor (left) on his second pint of Guinness seen here with Undone publisher John Mitchinson (centre) and author Patrick McCabe at the London launch (in the Boogaloo pub, Highgate) of Patrick's astonishing novel-in-verse (sort of) <i>Poguemahone</i>.</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiesVM5499iFL9f2saxdC9dq3_RSpZ9PefcQ8Ywo_f8aqsB7j773iqeNzmEsPlm3ueiCtacRDkHYWxbQPV4CGt5-lV7ZFEQC5mkMX07G-i9D1cXdhQ-Zlf_ybmECCvxlKTiAmHKTkofamgE689nsH1_IRNo2p3m7XzoPvt8AJ5hy90sy64MSNzmxbhWcw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1112" data-original-width="1490" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiesVM5499iFL9f2saxdC9dq3_RSpZ9PefcQ8Ywo_f8aqsB7j773iqeNzmEsPlm3ueiCtacRDkHYWxbQPV4CGt5-lV7ZFEQC5mkMX07G-i9D1cXdhQ-Zlf_ybmECCvxlKTiAmHKTkofamgE689nsH1_IRNo2p3m7XzoPvt8AJ5hy90sy64MSNzmxbhWcw" width="320" /></a></b></div><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;"> Seen here not sharing a joke<br /><br /></b><p></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: courier; font-size: small;">It was a perfect venue - the Pogue's Shane McGowan lived for some years above the pub and many legendary nights have unravelled there. The launch was among the very best I've ever been to, because as well as exemplary hosting by John and his lovely team, and superb readings by the author (and I mean really superb, absolutely monumental) we had lovely music from Louis Beau followed an open mic with a roster of singers, musicians and comedians.</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b>Among these was a stand-up comic called Johnny White Really-Really. he was new to me, and a revelation. I've rarely heard such brilliantly crafted comic monologues so beautifully delivered. He has a </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="https://twitter.com/lunchwatch">podcast</a>.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a;">_____________________</b></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">12. Next week's online gathering</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Next Sunday marks the 150th anniversary of the day Phileas Fogg set out to win a wager by circumnavigating the globe in eighty days. So we'll celebrate that.</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>We'll explore contemporary Ethiopian fiction in the shape of </b></span></span><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><i>The Lost Spell</i> by Yismake Worku with its translator Bethlehem Attfield, and publishers Henningham Family Press. </b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">There's a feature on the brilliant British film-maker John Smith, and other guests to be confirmed.</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">13. Nudge</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">In the week that Kwasi Kwarteng, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced reckless changes to the tax system that favour the super-rich and discriminate cruelly against the poor, a chap on Twitter called </b></span><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b>James Cook summed up the impact of his policies thus:</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span> <span> </span> <span> </span></span>I saw a homeless guy and I felt bad for him.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><b><span> </span><span> </span>So I did what I think any of us would do - drove to a nearby affluent area, found the <span> </span><span> </span>biggest, nicest house and put a tenner through their letter box.</b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><span> </span><span> </span>You mark my words, before long that money will trickle down to the homeless guy.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">If you enjoy this weekly newsletter and the live gatherings please donate (generously and regularly) to</b></span><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"> The Trussell Trust (or your local equivalent outside the UK). A tenner does good.</b></p><p style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Courier;"><b><a href="https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-involved/ways-to-give/">DONATE HERE</a></b></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">And thank you.</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">_____________________</b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="color: red; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">Horse attitudes (answer)</b><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;">. It's The White Horse of Uffington and features prominently in two of this year's very best novels: <i>Treacle Walker</i> by Alan Garner (shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize) and <i>My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is</i>' by Paul Stanbridge. </b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red; font-family: courier; font-size: x-small;"><b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Courier; font-size: 12px;"><br /></b></span></p></div>David J Collardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01353517349363925633noreply@blogger.com0