I Am Here by Laila Alj (Are We Where We Are Yet? Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 7 June 2017)
reviewed by Stella Backhouse In the wake of a general election whose main outcome has been to heap yet more
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Live Literature
May Utang by Jules Orcullo (Are We Where We Are?, Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 11 May 2017)
reviewed by Stella Backhouse Are We Where We Are? is a series of nine performance pieces to be premièred
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Disappear Here Project Launch (The Box, Fargo, Coventry, 16 March 2017)
reviewed by Stella Backhouse Known for his ambivalence towards the city of his birth, Philip Larkin’s best known work about
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Matt Watts: Playlist (Attenborough Arts, Leicester, 26 February 2017)
reviewed by Sally Jack Matt Watts’s Playlist considers the role music plays in our lives, particularly now we are set
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The Venus Papers Stage Show (Attenborough Arts, Leicester, 4 February 2017)
– Reviewed by Sally Jack– Writer and performer Lydia Towsey Paintings and artwork Scott Bridgwood Co-directors Rachel Mars and
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McGregor Poetry (Festival): Voices on Fire 26-28th August 2016
-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– This isn’t going to be much of a review. I don’t think someone running three events
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Alice: Ekphrasis at the British Library
– Reviewed by Jenna Clake – Alice is an anthology celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Lewis Carroll’s
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Meet the artist: Sophie Fenella
Sophie Fenella was the winner of our inaugural Dynamite commission and will be performing her poetry installation ‘The Archive’ at
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Jon Compliant at Voicebox (UnDegUn, Wrexham,14/12/15)
-Reviewed by Sophie McKeand– It’s Monday evening and, to quote an old Welsh language idiom, it’s raining old wives and
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Launch of Rock Life: 17 Poems from the Welsh Valleys by Gemma June Howell (Nos Da, Cardiff, 20/11/15)
-Reviewed by Renn Hubbuck-Melly– As I stepped down into the basement venue of Nos Da, a broken floorboard bounced
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