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The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)Spoils by Clare Pollard & ruminations on poetryEditorial Note by Max WallisIn Pollard’s second poem in Issue One, Spoils, she returns to one of her most quietly devastating territories: the sweetness we’re taught to accept but can’t quite swallow. The poem begins in honey, golden, excessive, a substance that feels both earned and unearned at once, and moves quickly into the wider question of what we inherit, materially and emotionally, without ever having asked for it.Here, sweetness is labour: the hive, the blooms, the careful work of other lives. And yet it is also something the speaker can ha...
2025-11-1301 min
eat.READ.sleep. Bücher für dichBuchladen: Tipps für Reisen in ferne LänderJan und Daniel machen mit bei der Woche der unabhängigen Buchhandlungen und öffnen den eat.READ.sleep.-Buchladen Mails an eatreadsleep@ndr.dePodcast-Tipp: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/battle-of-the-nerds/urn:ard:show:77786bd1816994bc/Tipps für …Eine Reise nach Costa Rica: Fernando Contrera Castro: Der Mönch, die Stadt und das Kind. Anna Paredes: Das Land zwischen den Meeren. Costa-Rica-Saga. Bücher zu spanischer Geschichte Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Alle Bücher. Almudena Grandes: Das gefrorene Herz. Ildefonso Falcones: Die Kathedrale des Meeres. Fernando Aramburu: Patri...
2025-11-081h 22
The Daily Aftershock (Writing Prompt)The Craving by Clare PollardEditorial Note by Max WallisWhat does it mean to be resilient when what you crave most is permission to stop pretending? In The Craving, Clare Pollard writes from the quiet exhaustion of motherhood: the need to hold everything together, the refusal to be seen breaking. Her humour is wry and deliberate: rejection emails, locked bathrooms, the polished insistence of I’m fine.Then the poem tilts from the domestic to the mythical. Toward “an enchanted castle” and its golden fruit, shimmering with the forbidden relief of letting go. That fruit becomes the impossible bargain betwee...
2025-11-0700 min
Front RowMarina Abramović on her dream creation - Balkan Erotic EpicArtist Marina Abramović on the world premiere of her largest-scale performance artwork - Balkan Erotic Epic - at Aviva Studios in Manchester. BBC Culture reporter Noor Nanji on the Riyadh Comedy Festival which has divided the comedy world.Poets Max Wallis and Dr Anna Percy on poetry and mental health as their new poetry magazine, The Aftershock Review, makes an impressive debut.Clare Wood, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of the British Ceramics Biennial on the festival's new international selection of artists' films centred on clay.Presenter: Nick Ahad
Producer: Ekene A...
2025-10-0742 min
Last WordJavier Pérez de Cuéllar, Max von Sydow, Professor Hannah Steinberg, Charles PortisPictured: Javier Pérez de CuéllarMatthew Bannister on The United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. The Peruvian diplomat faced major challenges including the Iran-Iraq war and the Falklands War. Max von Sydow the Swedish-born actor whose film roles ranged from Ingmar Bergman to James Bond and, more recently, Game of Thrones.Professor Hannah Steinberg - a pioneer of psychopharmacology - the study of the effects of drugs on the human mind. Charles Portis, the American writer best known for his novel "True Grit" which was...
2020-03-1328 min