Literature. That was some good shit. So said the character of ‘God’ in John Niven’s The Second Coming, a book I read recently. Literature is good shit, one of the best kinds of shit in this shit-filled world. Literature is one of the most important and breath-taking things in my […]
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I’ve been a big Prince fan ever since my father introduced me to his 1984 movie, Purple Rain. Before that I didn’t quite understand the musical sophistication of his work, although I did enjoy a few songs from the lovely ‘For You’, his first album which was not so well […]
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Oh Theon. He is one difficult character within the Game of Thrones universe and a character that stirs up a lot of debate among fans. Is he a treacherous arsehole who deserved what he got? Has he managed to repent his sins? Is he a tragic character that was wrongly […]
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The NHS website describes a person with a personality disorder as ‘someone who thinks, feels and behaves differently to the average person.’ However, I have a few issues with this. Firstly, what is ‘the average person’? Don’t we all have problems and difficulties? Is there any such thing as one […]
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Life is a series of disappointments with a few glimmers of hope and joy sprinkled in. When I was younger I remember being told the story of Pandora’s box. The gods left her a box and told her not to open it. She did, and out flew war, poverty, sickness, […]
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This poem ‘A Writer’ is included in my 2019 poetry collection Single Broke Female. A writer observesshe watches the world and writes every leafevery sigh of a tree blowing in the windshe listens. Men tell her their woesfrom tomcats to toadsthey weave their weeps into her earsshe listens. Fathers hang, […]
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