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Lucia Wu
Feb 21, 20234 min read
The Hound
The master left home for five days. Five days ago, several men came to the mountain. They were all clad in tin, and their faces were...
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Owen Thomas Webb
Feb 11, 20236 min read
‘Shen Yun, 5,000 Years of Chinese Civilization Reborn’ - A Review
Edinburgh Playhouse, 12th January 2023 Rating: * Shen Yun, the dance troupe of the Chinese American Falun Gong organization, tour the...
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Grace Baird
Feb 8, 20232 min read
The Auld Ways, Maukit Tongue
The Auld Ways There’s mair value than yous could ever imagine in the auld ways. And they're crumbling awa Gui tricky to catch, But ye’ve...
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Erin Aitken
Feb 4, 20233 min read
Jesus Christ Superstar: A Review
Closing night at one of the most talked about shows in town. Rating: ***** I took my seat at the closing night of The Edinburgh...
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Hermione Byron
Jan 28, 20231 min read
Thirst
I like to plant seeds in the barren lands of the Sierra, where I walk with a bucket and watch the shining eyes of the buckles on my...
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Alistair Kevan
Dec 22, 20221 min read
Move better
Your petrol powered boast is trumped by the muscle moved machine, its mechanical cleverness is humble and sporting. It does not growl nor...
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Hermione Byron
Dec 1, 20221 min read
Bud
I can't bear to throw out the dead flowers: When I dropped the bunch in the compost this morning, the one still alive fell from the group...
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Flora Leask
Nov 24, 20223 min read
Hangmen: A Review
Rating: **** Passers-by would have heard laughter coming from the Wee Red Bar mid-November, along with sounds of fighting, drunken...
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Jasmine Owen-Moulding
Nov 17, 20223 min read
Posh: A review
Rating - ***** Upon hearing that a play called Posh was being put on by Edinburgh students I was apprehensive, thinking Edinburgh —...
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Pablo Lacalle Castillo
Nov 6, 20226 min read
A Song for Laika
A while ago, in the back of a bar in Madrid, a friend once asked me which, out of all of God’s creatures who ever walked this earth, I...
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Pablo Lacalle Castillo
Sep 28, 202211 min read
Can’t You Hear Me Knocking
The vans travelled alone, materializing in back alleys and underneath streetlamps, when the funeral shroud of night had been drawn over...
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Kailasha Wagemans
Sep 28, 20221 min read
2 Poems
A poem— even with the prettiest words i couldn’t describe you the way you should be. Feeling Blue— I want words to come out of my mouth...
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Priya Basra
Sep 14, 20221 min read
Breakfast at Nine & If I saw her with the ginger man I'd remember
Breakfast at Nine Saliva dominates, Her salt washed skin brushes the beads of bubbles Glistening between my hairs, She moans — the type...
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Hermione Byron
Jul 9, 20221 min read
Portrait in Pain
Portrait paintings were Frida Kahlo's pain-things. Her labours of love hang as trophies of control and mocking devotion: desperate...
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Flora Leask
Jun 27, 20223 min read
New Brighton (2022): A Review
Image permissions from Helen Trevorrow and Red Dog Press We are grateful to Red Dog Press for giving us the opportunity to review New...
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Flora Leask
Jun 27, 20226 min read
In conversation with Helen Trevorrow, author of 'New Brighton'
We are grateful to Red Dog Press for giving us the opportunity to review New Brighton and putting us in touch with Helen Trevorrow. Thank...
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Flora Leask
Jun 26, 20223 min read
Encanto: Columbia gets the Disney Treatment.
Illustrations by Megan Le Brocq When Disney’s Encanto was released in 2021, I was deeply curious to watch it. Having witnessed first-hand...
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Carlotta Riechmann
May 22, 20221 min read
Starfishing
Ah, a day to myself. This morning, I spread To the sides of my bed With fingers and toes Like a starfish. I made pancakes, just three:...
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Natasha Hemraze
Mar 21, 20221 min read
Identity.
Fragility Is Not knowing Who I am. I don’t know who I am. I don’t know where the cement was mixed and Who formed the Bricks That were...
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Devki Panchmatia
Mar 16, 20221 min read
The School Orchard & Hieroglyphic Tablet from the Drought
THE SCHOOL ORCHARD In 1897, eighty clergy orphans moved into this school building. They sat on these grounds in September, surrounded by...
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