In my Uber to Battersea Park, the driver asked me: ‘why do you run?’ The question stumped me at first, perhaps because so much of the training I do is unconscious – a part of my daily routine, one of my non-negotiables. That’s not to say that running is a thoughtless activity – I often […]
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The last night of the fair… (15/05/2023) I imagine my route as two snakes intertwining, hesitant to cross over unless they have to. I came across a proverb today (from the Don’s insta): ‘Ne’er cast a clout till May is out’. Turns out a clout, in this sense, is not something to do with power […]
Returning to your secondary school is always a strange experience. Driving up the leafy avenue of Goddington lane, walking under that many-sided chapel, through the white reception gates – such mundanities are charged with an unexpected significance […]
‘I don’t know what’s going on in your mind But I know you don’t like what you find When you’re moving through solid air, solid air’ …So sung the British singer-songwriter, John Martyn, in reference to his close friend and labelmate, Nick Drake. The words ‘solid air’ served as a metaphor for Drake’s depression […]
In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates recounts Diotima’s bizarre assertion that ‘all men are pregnant’ and ‘yearn to beget’ upon the beautiful. This yearning stems from a primordial desire for immortality; men sacrifice themselves in battle to win ‘a deathless memory for valour’, parents acquire immortality through their children […]
I sat with spoken word artist and Durham student Fahad Al-Amoudi to discuss spoken word in the mainstream, slam poetry and the importance of poetry in a divided world. Do you make a distinction between spoken word artists and poets in the more general sense? Not necessarily […]
Αrchy Marshall’s latest release is a bold and expansive artistic statement, yet strangely elusive. Recording under the pseudonym King Krule, Marshall deftly blends genres of free jazz, brutal punk riffs and smooth hip-hop beats to form a cohesive album. Explored within the seventeen tracks are meditations on unrequited love, isolation […]
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