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		<title>The Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday 20th to Sunday 28th March 2010
 
With over 250 events taking place over eight days at Christ Church, Corpus Christi, the Sheldonian Theatre, The Bodleian Library, and other venues, the 2010 festival promises to be one of the best ever.  Debates, discussions, talks, readings, literary lunches and dinners, as well as programmes in creative writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen OToole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3 Benalder Street
 
My bedroom’s tiny. It’s three bicycles in length and one and a half bicycles in width. I don&#8217;t own a bicycle. I don&#8217;t have the space for it.
 
The bedroom isn’t big enough for another person to stand in, unless I&#8217;m being intimate with that person. But I can’t be intimate with that person, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inner-City Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norman Samuda-Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inner-City Blues is based within the back-drop of inner-city Small Heath Birmingham during the mid 1970’s and is the long-awaited sequel to Norman Samuda-Smith’s ground breaking first novel Bad Friday. 
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When Peter is brutally assaulted after leaving a ‘blues party’ in the early hours of Sunday morning, robbed of his hustling money, face down, bleeding and motionless, the attack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackheath Books edition of Beat the Dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The uber trendy BTD has hooked up with Blackheath Books this month for a special collaborative issue of the litzine.  In the October edition they have the latest work from a selection of Blackheath&#8217;s authors &#8211; poetry from Billy Childish, Adelle Stripe, Ben Myers, Darran Anderson, Miles J Bell and Garrie Fletcher, plus fiction from Joseph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urchin Belle by Jenni Fagan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I was sent a copy of “Urchin Belle by Jenni Fagan” the book blurb goes something like this “…a debut collection that combines a genuine poetic originality with a startling no bullshit clarity. This is a voice born out of a life lived on the extreme peripheries of society”.
Jenni Fagan
To be honest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>spiral out&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am often left disappointed by new contemporary American writers. For modern fiction I have found the new breed of British offbeat writers to be more consistently satisfying, and often very extraordinary.
 spiral out an excerpt from the novel by uv ray
This leads me to an extraordinary U.V. Ray a relatively unknown writer who has appeared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAST DAYS of the CROSS by JOSEPH RIDGWELL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 

Whilst I’m waiting for my copy of Ridgwell’s new book, I can’t help but wonder “&#8230;will this book be any good?” Is this another attempt by someone trying to be offbeat, neo-prophetic, voice of the common man and brutally satirical? Will the transition from online to print work? Reading Ridgwell&#8217;s work online works because it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A poetry book… but not as we know it</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
baby, i’m ready to go is a break-the-rules collection of poems that’s not afraid to mess with convention. it’s a poetry book that mixes the radical with the traditional &#8211; the anarchy of dialect and free verse, with the conformity of rhyme and traditional poetic forms. and that’s not the only thing that sets this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Load the Guns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:46:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is more than just another new offbeat generation &#8220;reinvigorating contemporary poetry&#8221; book from Joe Ridgwell. This is for the developing illicit offbeat generation. If you&#8217;re reading this then you NEED this book!
http://www.blackheathbooks.org.uk/37.html
The BBC dared to ask if today&#8217;s poets affect social change, test the boundaries of form and take poetry forward with the times&#8230;.YES THEY BLOODY [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clean Sheets and a View of the Hudson</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ewan Morrison</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘I can’t believe we’re doing this for real,’ she said.

He didn’t want her to change her mind so he changed the subject. ‘Did you buy something special for the occasion?’ He gently ran the back of his hand over her thigh, searching for the line of her garter belt. She looked up at the taxi [...]]]></description>
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