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It’s a scary list. Whitney Houston, Dave Brubeck, Davy Jones, Andy Williams, Etta James, Dory Previn, Donna Summer, Robin Gibb, Bert Weedon, and even the man who made the Marshall amp, to name but a few. Suddenly an entire generation of our greatest musical artists starts slipping away. As a childhood fan of Hollywood movies […]

Here’s a short poem I wrote. 2B Or Not 2B 2B or not 2BThat is the pencilWhether it is Nobblier in the line toScuff the springs and marrowsOf outmoded pictorial representation,Or to take snaps upon the digital?To sketch up the dawn of a rosy hueOr to take lines of sea and rubbleAnd by Photoshopping them,

Here’s a short poem I wrote. 2B Or Not 2B 2B or not 2BThat is the pencilWhether it is Nobblier in the line toScuff the springs and marrowsOf outmoded pictorial representation,Or to take snaps upon the digital?To sketch up the dawn of a rosy hueOr to take lines of sea and rubbleAnd by Photoshopping them,

The UK Slam Championships last night was one of the best Farrago Poetry events I’ve been to. It was an honour and a pleasure to have been asked to judge, along with Charles Shaar Murray, by Farrago founder John Paul O’Neill. The Slam contest is interspersed with guest feature poets. I read from Reaching for

Dr Broderick Chow, lecturing in theatre studies at Brunel University and a performer in his own right, was an early commentator on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s casting fiasco for The Orphan of Zhao. Here is his article — Two dogs and a maid — which he posted on Friday 19th October at his Dangerology website.

Statement released by AAPAC today on Facebook. Wonderful solidarity from our American bredren. This is so fantastically moving. I feel I am learning so much about these issues — a very fruitful time for all of us. AAPAC PROTESTS THE RSC. ACTION NEEDED! AAPAC (Asian American Performers Action Coalition) stands in support of our British