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Fighting Talk: September 2013
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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Friday, 20 September 2013. The boy sits at the kitchen table, huddled over a book. I circle the room slowly, slippers klitter-klattering on the cold tile. I pass the sink, again, scrubbed clean this morning with bleach and a metal scourer. A glass of water on the next lap. Definitely on the next lap. 8220;Sir. What about the conflict between Collins and…”. 8220;Stuart. For the last time, this isn’t school. You don’t have to call me Sir.”. 8220;John.”. 8220;It’s true...
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Fighting Talk: January 2014
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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Friday, 31 January 2014. In conversation with. Julian Gough. This is a old interview with Julian Gough, first published just before the release of 'Jude: Level 1'. Julian was at his lively best and he even made some interesting comments, considering what he has said in recent times, about the future of the novel. Enjoy. WHAT would Charles Darwin have made of Julian Gough? The only question left is one of genetics, dominant or regressive. 8220;People began to look at the b...
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Fighting Talk: In conversation with... Donal Ryan
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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Friday, 8 August 2014. In conversation with. Donal Ryan. One of the first things that strikes a readers about the work of Donal Ryan is the simple confidence of his prose. The language is direct and unforgiving, flowing easily from a page that appears to have been crafted by the character itself, and not during late night labours over a script. But Ryan, like so many of us, struggles desperately with his confidence. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Promote your Page too.
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Fighting Talk: August 2014
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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Friday, 8 August 2014. In conversation with. Donal Ryan. One of the first things that strikes a readers about the work of Donal Ryan is the simple confidence of his prose. The language is direct and unforgiving, flowing easily from a page that appears to have been crafted by the character itself, and not during late night labours over a script. But Ryan, like so many of us, struggles desperately with his confidence. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Promote your Page too. Galwa...
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Fighting Talk: Nasturtium
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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Sunday, 8 February 2015. He walks to the window slowly, dragging polished shoes across the cold tile floor. 8220;It’s been so…” he offers, working the blinds with his knotted fingers, “unexpected. More like April than November really. Not a bad day for it, as days go.”. A shaft of white light enters the room. He turns slowly, opens his mouth and closes it again. 8220;I miss you,” he whispers. 8220;You would have loved those nasturtiums.”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Fighting Talk: In Purgs
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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Friday, 1 May 2015. The blind man hurls a lopsided stone into the lake, unsettling the one legged heron in the grey shallows. Beside him on the wooden mooring, the man-on-the-street sits cross-legged, head bowed, enveloped by his dark trench coat. 8220;You can see it? 8221; spits the man-on-the-street. “You? 8220;I can see the light changing. And I feel the warmth going from the air.”. 8220;What did you write? 8221; he asks, wafting wet air into the blind man’s ear. 8220;...
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CPI - The Archive: The Julian Gough Podcast [June 2007]
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Wednesday, 22 January 2014. The Julian Gough Podcast [June 2007]. WHAT would Charles Darwin have made of Julian Gough? The great thinker, master of evolution and natural selection. Would he have found a room, a paragraph or even a foot note, in the Origin of the Species for the likes of Gough? The only question left is one of genetics, dominant or regressive. 8220;People began to look at the book in a different way, all of it’s vices suddenly became virtues - the little grey fella turns out to be a...
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CPI - The Archive: December 2013
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Tuesday, 3 December 2013. The Rick Buckler Podcast. DECEMBER 11, 1982. The Brighton Arena heaves with heavy expectation as a typically exuberant Jam gig closes in a haze of guitar and distortion. But this was no typical gig. After 10 years, an amazing decade in which they picked up the shreds of punk and twisted them into something still vibrant, The Jam were through. Pieces. It was a bitter pill to take. After a couple of years, you just stop trying, you stop sending the Christmas card, don’t ya? At the...
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CPI - The Archive: May 2014
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Thursday, 1 May 2014. The Dave Geraghty Podcast [July 2007]. In mid-2007, Dave Geraghty took his first steps out from behind the Bell X1 shadow and onto centre stage in his own right. Andy Hamilton spokes to him days after the release of his debut solo album Kill Your Darlings. As Dave Geraghty emerges from under the shadow of Bell X1, this is an idiom which he has grasped with both hands. To hear the interview in full listen to the podcast below. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). At the core of the CPI was a ...
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Fighting Talk: May 2014
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One Hour Story Challenge [OHST]. Monday, 19 May 2014. Blow It Open. Seamus Heaney and the black lake of the Burren. The swans may be gone, but Seamus Heaney still has the power to catch the heart and blow it open. Writes Andy Hamilton. Sometimes art and nature seem to melt together. It happened in 'Postscript', Seamus Heaney's love-letter to the Flaggy Shore and the North Clare Burren. And, in a strange reversal of symmetries, it seems to be happened again. The blackening of the lake and departure of Hea...
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