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Apartheid: my part in its downfall

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Review of BBC Four’s The World Against Apartheid (1/5).

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For theartsdesk

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Things, in retrospect, I probably shouldn’t have said to my girlfriend

Monday, January 23, 2012

# 34
I’m just saying, I kind of need a better offer if I’m not going to carry on reading my book…

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Saturday night

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Saturday night at
the local Premier Inn.
‘Coffee: FREE refills’

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Dialogue

Friday, January 20, 2012

– If you seriously expect me to stand here and listen while you say the things I know you’re going to say and you say the things you know I disagree with… well, then, you’re going to be gutted.

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Poetry

Thursday, January 19, 2012

emboldens the life that is already there

like a glass of red wine

but also sometimes
like the hangover the morning after.

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Hades

Thursday, January 12, 2012

In H&M
a black shop-assistant
carts flaxen-haired dummies
downstairs.

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Middle-distant memory

Thursday, January 12, 2012

of queuing outside the toilets
with Roger McGough,
talking about why we hate rap.

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Same, same

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

I buy books on Africa the same way my mother buys books on Ireland.

(I don’t read them the same way.)

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The euphoria of turning 18

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

is now more than 12 years behind me.

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Hierarchy

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The taxi-drivers down the gym 
talk of twenty-grand watches.

Mine is a Casio –
five bucks, from Cambodia.

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