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		<title>THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ME</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Thornton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jessica leaves the bar at midnight, proud of herself for not closing the place down.  She’s so drunk she can barely walk.  Knows to put one face, no wait, one foot, in front of the other, pace, pace, pace. Keep that rhythm going.  Home home home.  Don’t look up.  Don’t listen to the guys hollering [...]]]></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>Legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Silas Gorin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The clock’s now gone from the mantelpiece
Dad’s gone out for a long time too
But not the night shift, different work
 
Mum said. I listened, being a good boy
So I could get some answers later
With my questions – “Driving me ‘round the bend!”
 
Dad’s normal job was driving ‘round
Takes years of care and knowledge stored
Up inside the head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dissonance</title>
		<link>http://the-beat.co.uk/dissonance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Trevor Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I spit lightening
 
I will burn down the sky
&#38; grind it into dust;
blown away in the rage
of a nuclear winter
 
the embers of love are
pissed on
by the cancerous dregs
of this mediocre age when
 
loneliness is a
whispered dissonance
heard down the years,
 
a flaccid cock that
will no longer rise,
an infection of the heart
 
that is measured in tears
to be jettisoned, finally,
like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ART OF THE CANNIBOL</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Silva</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1049</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That rooted kind of egoism
&#8230;whitmanesque
in lineage
with which the modern poets dig.
 
Without any hint of courage
he digs himself a grave.
 
In the triumph of the city
whose prophet is a pig
who the masses long to eat.
 
With a nearly sexual leer
&#8230;the faith of each blind fool
where religion is a knave
without tragedy
or pity
 
&#8230;a Eucharist of meat
chased down by a beer
in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Length of Her Skirt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Warrington</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poetry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1047</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The length of her skirt seems to be the issue
and her alleged flirtation at some recent party.
The details are unclear but I get the jealous gist.
Glancing through the window
I can see the legs he&#8217;s worried about.
I get the feeling she&#8217;s not used to this,
that it&#8217;s a shock to find herself
under the hostile microscope
of suspicious-minded scrutiny.
I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hearing voices</title>
		<link>http://the-beat.co.uk/hearing-voices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Si Philbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[i was in the park when michael jackson told me not to bet on west ham staying up next year. odd, &#8216;cos with blackpool a shoe-in for relegation and avram grant being no mug i thought the hammers stood a good chance. still, i didn&#8217;t want to argue with the king of pop.
 
i was in [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1043</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://the-beat.co.uk/hotel-pennsylvania-faces-destruction-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 08:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1040</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://the-beat.co.uk/this-fucking-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 14:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Keenaghan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1036</guid>
		<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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