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Fred Voss, 8th July 1952 to 27th January 2025 Peter Raynard pays tribute to a great American poet The poet Fred Voss, who has died at the…
Emancipating Ancestors by Jenny Mitchell I’ll free them allby digging deep enoughto haul their battered bodiesfrom the years of disturbed soil. As they emerge – some dark,…
Jon Baldwin reviews Hybrid Images and the Vanishing Point of Digital Visual Effects by Tom Livingstone, Edinburgh University Press, 2024 This is a fascinating book which examines…
Mark Perryman celebrates the meaning of Bob Marley, whose birthday would have been Thursday 6th February As self-styled ‘sporting outfitters of intellectual distinction’ at Philosophy Football we’ve…
Scott Alsworth reviews Everything to Play For: How Videogames are Changing the World, by Marijam Did, Verso, 2024 Can videogames be a force for good in the…
by Nick Moss When I began writing poetry in jail, there were a core group of writers who influenced me – Bertolt Brecht, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Pablo…
(Photo credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers) by Alan McCormick You heard his speech, right? So-called President. Not good. Not good at his job. Not a good person, as…