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		<title>Century of Sundays</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 10:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Warrington</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I saw you last
the trade routes have all changed.
Rivers have changed course.
Silt has covered the sunken boat.
Empires have been built and fallen.
Rain has stopped falling on the desert citadel.
 
Since you hopped off the bus
like a cat with a shoulder bag,
generations of pilgrims have worn a groove
in the steps of the shrine
and generations of their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Road Trip and Other Poems.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 14:49:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>U.V.Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My long awaited new Chapbook, Road Trip and Other Poems.
Available now from Erbacce Press!
 
Price is £5.00 ($8.20) and postage is FREE! Please be aware Erbacce are a small indie publishers and if you are overseas if you could bung just a couple of dollars extra to help postage it would be hugely helpful. But it&#8217;s NOT [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Burroughs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Burroughs &#38; Brion Gysin &#8211; The Third Mind &#8211; a reinterpretation Bradley the buyer by William S. Burroughs 
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		<title>The Migrant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>U.V.Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in the public toilets at the station. When in the bright strip-lighting I saw the mirror image of myself. It stopped me in my tracks. At first I didn’t recognise it as me. Not exactly. I stood, momentarily, and studied it. It was a cold looking image. A pale unfeeling face with still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dead Beat, by Cody James</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Holloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dead Beat, by Cody James
Available as an ebook for £2 NOW
Available as a paperback for £6 NOW
 
Visit: http://eightcuts.wordpress.com/
 
Available in a one-off hand-numbered edition with extra material for £6 from 1 November 2010. This will also entitle you to free entry to all eight cuts live events. For life. E-mail eightcutsgallery@googlemail.com to reserve a copy.
 
Read the Reviews!
 
“the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8217;sole&#8217; by David E. Oprava</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 14:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8217;sole&#8217; is a book of poetry that explores his childhood growing up in rural America. Each of the poems aims to express a solitary emotion, a universal whole, and the peculiar holes in which we find ourselves.
 
It&#8217;s available in two editions, a hardback and our traditional cardback. It&#8217;s our first foray into the world of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bird Which is Flightless Must Have Found its Perfect Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Wright</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who stabbed other people’s thumbs with shopping trolleys but did not apologise for doing so reminded Jackson that he was better than most people. If he thought he had his flaws, then at least he knew he would have the respect and courtesy to apologise for such an offence.
 
As it was, the lady who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beautiful Things that Happen to Ugly People</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Holloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An evening that brings together readings, music, and art, looking at those oases of beauty that spring up like unkillable weeds in even the most arid of lives. And hoping to be such a moment for everyone there. That stunning poster art is by Sarah E Melville, whose extraordinary moedern illuminated manuscript Beautiful Things that Happen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOTEL PENNSYLVANIA FACES DESTRUCTION &#8211; AGAIN</title>
		<link>http://the-beat.co.uk/hotel-pennsylvania-faces-destruction-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[this was posted 31 May 2010 15:02:59 UTC &#8211; http://www.2600.com
 
There has been very little in the way of media coverage, but quietly and steadily the forces that want to demolish the Hotel Pennsylvania, site of the HOPE conferences, have been working to get their way and sidestep all of the opposition. 
 
Meetings and hearings on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THIS FUCKING LIFE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Keenaghan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SIX WEEKS AFTER the accident, I phone Murphy. I&#8217;ve been in the house too long, I need to get back out there. I need money.
 
&#8220;Are you sure you&#8217;re up for it?&#8221; he says.
 
&#8220;More than ever,&#8221; I tell him.
 
He tells me to sit tight, he&#8217;ll see what he can do.
 
Three days later I get a call. [...]]]></description>
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