Richard Scott can make what was considered seedy into a thing of beauty, he can take violence and spin it into verse that both hurts and stuns. His poetry captures the essence of what it means to be gay, and to be an artist, and how those things work in conjunction. It shows what it [...]
In his first ‘memoir’, T Cooper explores his life from every angle. His own, his wife’s, his brother's, his friend’s parents, his parents, societies, the town he lives in, the police, the media, and so on. This is a genre-bending ‘memoir’ that compiles together essays, lists, interviews, transcripts, and images to create a cross-examination of [...]
The End of Eddy begins with an opening that could rival Anna Karenina: ‘From my childhood I have no happy memories.’ A reader might find that odd, and be inclined to believe that this novel will go on to prove this first line is a lie. It does not. What follows that line, and fills the first chapter, is [...]
Jon Paul Roberts 