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Featuring the five short-listed stories for the BBC National Short Story Award, this collection brings together a high-caliber group of new and established British authors exploring human relationships at their most dysfunctional and yet sustaining. Splintered families, the persistence of love, the public versus the private, and the plight of the outsider provide recurring themes in this 2010 selection of works. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Review: "Every sentence is both unpredictable and exactly what it should be. Reading them is a series of short shocks of (agree...

45 Years is among the barest, most harrowing films any pair of lovers can see. Kicking off the events of the film is the 45th anniversary of married couple Kate and Geoff Mercer, and what occurs on the eve of that celebration. Geoff, played by Tom Courtenay in his career-best, is shocked by an unsettling news—the body of Katya, an ex-lover, has been discovered in a melted glacier in the Swiss Alps, where she had fallen in over five decades ago when on a trip with the young Mercer. Playing his wife, Kate, is cinema-great Charlotte Rampling, who firms the film in her hands. Constantine's orig...

ACCORDING to critic and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, abjection involves either a confrontation with our sense of physical being or a separation between the self and a rejected “other.” Objects of revulsion can be tangible, such as faeces and bodily fluids, but some forms of dread are abstract and ambiguous.   The New Abject collection of horror stories draws on the broad nature of Kristeva’s definition, which has inspired a loosely related set of tales that deal with the things that make us shudder and retch.   There are science-fictional dystopias, traditional hauntings, tales of bo...

Artwork by Whooli Chen L to r: National Poetry Competition judges Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long (photo: Amaal Said) Fiona Benson, David Constantine and Rachel Long are the judges of the National Poetry Competition 2021, which is now open for entries The National Poetry Competition, run by The Poetry Society, is one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for a single unpublished poem. The three judges this year are outstanding and award-winning writers. Fiona Benson has won the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for a First Full Collection, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the...

A symposium on inclusive collaboration and commitment to change will also be held on May 21. Keynote speaker Vanley Burke will be joined by speakers including Joy Gregrory, Dexter McLean, David Constantine, Joanne Coates, Kirsty MacKay and Dr Shawn Sobers. A photo of Mike Feingold in his greenhouse, part of the  He is well known within the Bristol growing community, particularly because of the role he has played in promoting the philosophy of Permaculture and running an orchard with 50 different varieties of apple, May 2020. Exhibitions will continue to open throughout the summer months. Th...