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Book Review: Postmarked — Quarantine Distils Pandemic into Dreamlike Dread and Domestic Apocalypse
Kushal Poddar’s Postmarked, Quarantine is a modern poetry collection, but it’s also a lived fever dream, bottled and postmarked from the darkest months of lockdown.

Death of a Salesman at The Lowry, 29.4.2025
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman tells the story of travelling salesman Willy Loman, chewed up and spat out by the way the American dream

Seussical the Musical at the Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight 18th April 2025
One of the best things about writing theatre reviews is that I get to see a far wider range of productions than I might otherwise

Systema Solar @ Future Yard Birkenhead 19th June 2025 – preview
I didn’t know any of Systema Solar’s music before hearing they were due to play at Future Yard, so thought I’d listen to a few

Book Review: The Whiskey Mule Diner Anthology Swerves Through the Gutter and the Divine
This modern poetry collection doesn’t walk, it staggers, bleeds, and sometimes howls like a late-night preacher with whiskey breath. The Whiskey Mule Diner Anthology (Fevers

Call for Submissions: Poetry That Crushes Silence and Breaks Systems
Dove Cry: Anti‑War Poetry – The Final Volume in The Broken Spine’s Thematic Slimlines Poetry Anthology Series Submissions Open Throughout May 2026 | Publication Later
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