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In the Smoking Area Cristina Rizzo “You ok?” He scares me. His voice is hugged by the cushioned music from inside the club. My ears feel...
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Hermione Byron
- Mar 23
- 1 min
Be The Moon
To be the moon is what he wanted me to be. round serene A face...
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Lauren Galligan
- Mar 18
- 1 min
Nan's garden
At the bottom of the garden the little girl plays. It is spring and the sun is warm in this spot, Filtered through the gaps in the blue...
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Tala M.L. Davidson
- Mar 16
- 3 min
Nothing Beautiful & Something Beautiful
Nothing Beautiful There is nothing beautiful to say by it, About it, there is nothing gold. The source of my heart, and yet The black...
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Julián Camilo Corzo Ochoa
- Mar 7
- 4 min
The Human Voice, Pedro Almodóvar: A Review
‘I’d get nervous whenever I’d see a knife… It scared me to imagine I might be sticking a knife in your chest’. This quote is one of the...
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Lucia Wu
- Feb 21
- 4 min
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
- 6 min
‘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
- 2 min
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
- 3 min
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
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 11 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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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