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		<title>catcher in the eye</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olly Bryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a puppet on the pier
clinching the clown of motion
   threading the destitute hair    
clothing the muse with accordion flat cap blues
   seeking revelations as quick fire traditions
consecrated by warped footstep shots
  
   what kind of art?
the kindness of art  
   the vomit on the judge
the shit on the wig
   the bottle at the hip
the instinctive tip at the [...]]]></description>
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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>Write to decline</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Watson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Write to decline
against the grain
future of
you were
deja vu dream
will be seen
translated into
possess an image
also beauty almost
hopeless of his work
high back given time
be dead break out or
happened inertia
through
as interesting
intended but never
put down
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		<title>ma ma</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 09:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>KJ Hays</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[your voice sounds as soft
as my mother&#8217;s was when
her soft womb dampened
all of the coarse weariness
pressing on her heavy lips.
god i wish you&#8217;d come over
&#38; read me bedtime stories.
your voice sounds as soft as
my mother&#8217;s was when her
soft womb dampened all of
the coarse wiriness pressing
on her heavy crimson mouth.
god i wish you would look at
me [...]]]></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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		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Story]]></category>
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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>Social-networking</title>
		<link>http://the-beat.co.uk/social-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julian Baker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;d been pretending to be a girl in internet chatrooms.
 
Mutual masturbation online with someone who has a really dirty turn of phrase. Getting to know them, learning just what pushed their button.
 
Staying at work late to be left undisturbed. He knew he was good at the pretense, convincing, his unseen male confidant having long expressed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rag &amp; Bone Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>U.V.Ray</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The neighbour’s dog was whining in the night again. Its melancholy dog-song echoed around the houses. It woke Joe Fuegi up. He hadn’t made it into bed. Throughout the evening he’d consumed a whole bottle of Johnny Walker Red Label in front of the TV, and when he woke up the TV channel was on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BAD ROCK AND ROLL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Silva</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The magic grows cold
&#8230;the heart and heat
of voices day and night
skips a beat
here and there
&#8230;the threads of such a universe
of ghost
go thin
in syncopation with anomalies
of sin
which no longer keep upright
flames of flowering transcendental grace
like new years everywhere
 
&#8230;like new years everywhere
just a ball game on TV
and beer and pretzels and their farts
when music fails the arts
 
in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Acid Burn No Face Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jenni Fagan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve stopped feeling strange about the artist watching me through the keyhole of his bedroom door.  The keyhole is huge, an old victorian thing.  He watches all the time now.  He doesn’t even paint anymore.  Last week I woke and he was stood at the crack of his door, writing something down. 
 
            ‘What the fuck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HACKNEY NIGHTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:08:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Keenaghan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ryder slammed the door behind him and took the lift down to the street, his mum&#8217;s voice still ringing in his head&#8230; Place was a fucking madhouse, serious. His mum, his sisters, crazy the lot of them.
 
He walked through the estate up towards the shops on Well Street. The sky was darkening, lights coming on [...]]]></description>
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