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15 October 2014 Regular marvels / The Light Ships

The Light Ships: First Words

The fourth Regular Marvel is called The Light Ships: Church, art and community in the Lincolnshire Fens. It will be

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3 June 2014 Regular marvels

Speaking in tongues

Words captivated me first: then stories. As a small child, I didn’t always follow the story or care if I

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2 March 2014 From My Life

Restless meanings

Classical music is as important as photography in Terence Davies’ elegiac film about the people and city of Liverpool in

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19 November 2013 Regular marvels

Lying for truth

The Bush Theatre invited me to give a talk tonight in their RADAR Festival of new writing. It was a

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26 October 2013 A Wider Horizon

Art is not a zero-sum game

‘If you love it here, you love the bleakness and the vast flat sky and landscape.’ A few weeks ago,

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1 June 2013 Bread and Salt

Against Frankenstein

‘Hope today is a contraband passed from hand to hand and from story to story.’ John Berger, Bento’s Sketchbook, 2011

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8 February 2013 A Wider Horizon

A Wider Horizon

A Regular Marvel about tastes in art Did you fall for drama in your first primary school play or learn

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6 February 2013 Bread and Salt

45 years of hope

Be Like Water – Hetain Patel The ruler has already been a language teacher’s cane and a samurai sword dancing

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1 February 2013 Winter fires

‘The Crystal Quilt’, Suzanne Lacy

On Sunday, the American artist Suzanne Lacy will create a new performance piece called Silver Action at Tate Modern in London. She has invited

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24 November 2012 Winter fires

Mik Godley’s portraits of older artists

Here are Mik Godley’s final portraits, which are reproduced in Winter Fires. They start with photographs I made, in discussion with the

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