“He drew a deep breath. ‘Well, I’m back,’ he said.” – The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Home: a small rural village an hour or so outside of York, North Yorkshire. Roughly 60 or so houses, what I guess is at least over 100 acres of pastoral…
Travel
Norwich: The Queer Capital of the East
“Norwich is a fine city.” This often remarked and equally mocked slogan, which you first encountered driving down the A11 towards the outer limits of the city, has become just as iconic and intertwined with the city’s DNA as UEA’s Ziggurats or Cathedral Close. You take a walk around the city streets, visit some of…
Lifestyle
Women travellers throughout history
Let me address the mammoth in the room: it is perhaps unusual, one may say improper, for one such as I to write on the topic of women’s history. Men have frequently been much responsible for the current predicament we find ourselves in – and I include history as an aside in this regard. From…
Music
Something Else: Wet Leg/Inhaler at the Waterfront, 7th October
7:30pm, The Adrian Flux Waterfront… You suspect most of the big British bands had their start in places like this. With the space too tight to fit this many people, where the lights – blue then purple – hang heavy in the air and mix with the smoke haze coating the room. In a seven-song…
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We Want to be Radicals
“Not Gay as in happy but Queer as in Fuck You.” – Anon Pride was founded on a brick or a shot or kick and the colours of the rainbow thereafter. For many LGBT+ people, a medium sized rectangular cloth, 90 by 150, dyed with the vanishing afternoon, means above all one thing: Pride. Since…
News
Obituary for Richard Deswarte
The last paper was always reserved, even if no one said so. Between six-thirty and seven o’clock, under the occasional cover of darkness, a thin, smallish man with a rising forehead would walk across UEA’s square to the SU shop it complete what would be for any other person, afternoon tasks. He would go in,…
US Election: Comment
It’s not who wins, it’s who loses that counts
He did it. Cries of a joyful revolution against the suits of Washington D. C., or abject horror at the state of American democracy? Depends on who you ask. November 8th, 2016. He did it. And the reality is what unfolded that faithful night could repeat itself this November 3rd and in spite of what…
Books
Is poetry inaccessible?
I think that poetry is the freest form of writing of them all. It doesn’t have to be bound by rules and it doesn’t have to do anything but what the writer wants it to. Alongside this, poetry can also be entirely up to interpretation, with the meaning set by the reader. For me, that…
Creative Writing
A Pier Outstretched into an Ocean
Reached through the ocean, ran through the reef – stopped where the waters turned dark, into the unknowable. We were just kids then: five-, ten-, twelve-year-olds; fingers grasped around the chilled silver railings in front. The wind brought clouds of tortuous form inwards, with full bellies and colours that cracked this spurious visage. We could…
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