One half of the most successful songwriting partnership in history (Lennon/McCartney), writer of a whopping 32 songs that have topped the Billboard Hot 100, recipient of an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, eighteen Grammy Awards, and appointments as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1965 and a knighthood in 1997 for services to music, Sir Paul McCartney needs no introduction. Songwriter extraordinaire, proud Scouser and all-round good egg, Macca has made chart topping music for over six decades and recently played a career defining three hour headline slot at Glastonbury, aged 80. He’s made some of our most enduring, heartfelt and treasured contemporary recordings, and this playlist focuses on his post-Beatles career in Wings and as a solo artist, covering amazing albums such as McCartney, Ram, Band On The Run, Flaming Pie and Chaos And Creation In The Back Yard.
Neil Hannon doesn’t do things by halves. The man who gave us satirical serenades about office life and Eurovision dreams is back—older,
Peter J. Donnelly’s Solving the Puzzle (Alien Buddha Press) doesn’t try to dazzle you with syntactic fireworks or metaphysical gamesmanship. Instead, it
For Peter Devonald, poetry is a vivid act of attention. Not simply a way to reflect the world, but a way to
The Broken Spine is a poetry and arts collective proudly published on the coastal edge of North-West England. Founded in 2019 by Alan Parry and Paul Robert Mullen – two school friends reunited after twenty years through a mutual love of poetry.
