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Preview: The Divine Comedy Bring Their Baroque Pop Balm to Liverpool’s Philharmonic – and It Might Just Be NHS-Grade Medicine
Neil Hannon doesn’t do things by halves. The man who gave us satirical serenades about office life and Eurovision dreams is back—older, moodier, and still

Book Review: Solving the Puzzle by Peter Donnelly – A Contemporary Poetry Collection
Peter J. Donnelly’s Solving the Puzzle (Alien Buddha Press) doesn’t try to dazzle you with syntactic fireworks or metaphysical gamesmanship. Instead, it walks straight into

The Cut with Peter Devonald
For Peter Devonald, poetry is a vivid act of attention. Not simply a way to reflect the world, but a way to intervene in it.

Submission Call for Haze: Counterculture Poetry
The Broken Spine invites submissions for Haze: Counterculture Poetry, the sixth instalment in our critically acclaimed slimline anthology series, following After Hours: Beat Culture Made

No More Cold Pitches: Building a Free Indie Publishing Network That Actually Works
The indie lit scene is full of passion. Full of people doing it for the love — writing, publishing, reviewing, shouting into the void just

Little Women at the Lowry Theatre, 8.4.2025 – No Gimmicks, Just Grace
There is a challenge inherent in adapting any much-loved novel for the stage, in that you have to give the book’s aficionados something they recognise
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