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Faith Healer Review: Thacker’s Hauntingly Brilliant Production at The Kings Arms, Salford
The performance space at The Kings Arms is a relatively modest venue, essentially a large-ish room above a pub that’s well worth a visit in
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A Glutton’s Guide to Tulsa – Exploring Tulsa’s Food Scene in a Poem by Jay Rafferty
Tulsa is a city that feeds the soul as much as the stomach, and Irish poet Jay Rafferty has captured its essence in this sumptuous
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Nature Fights Back: Ecopoetry That Mauls, Screams, and Survives
Let’s drop the Hallmark card fantasies. Nature isn’t serene. It’s not here to cradle you while you write love letters to daffodils. Nature is carnivorous.
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Submission Guidelines for Beautiful Little Fools: Poetry of Glamour, Obsession, and the Gilded Age
Beautiful Little Fools will be a stunning hardcover anthology celebrating and interrogating the glamour, obsession, and decadence of the Gilded Age, inspired by the centenary
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Call for Submissions: Festive Short Stories & Flash Fiction for a Bold Winter Anthology!
Are you a writer with a winter-themed story waiting to shine? The Broken Spine is seeking submissions for its 2025 Festive Short Story Anthology. This
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Exploring Change and Resilience in Contemporary Poetry: A Close Reading of Claudia Rankine’s ‘What if’
Poetry, Protest, and Resilience: A Close Reading of Claudia Rankine’s What if In Claudia Rankine’s What if, the poet addresses the complex intersections of change,
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