"Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman is a daring and endlessly inventive portrait of the iconoclastic composer. Penman's skill lies in his total disregard for tired cliches and tropes of music criticism, while perfectly combining the highbrow and the lowbrow a digression on Les Dawson shows why he might just be our greatest writer on music. The Book of Bogs, edited by Anna Chilvers and Clare Shaw, draws together many environmental writers and poets Amy Liptrot, Robert Macfarlane, Horatio Clare"
"in response to threats against the Walshaw Moor peatlands of West Yorkshire that inspired writers such as Emily Bronte and Ted Hughes (and yours truly). Most here agree windfarms are a good thing; Saudi companies indiscriminately plundering richly biodiverse landscapes less so. It's an essential celebration of something that once gone can never be recovered. Silliness is important in life, too, and the 1956 novel The Ascent of Rum Doodle by WE Bowman is very silly indeed."
A daring, endlessly inventive portrait of composer Erik Satie rejects tired cliches and tropes of music criticism, blending highbrow and lowbrow references and even digressing into Les Dawson. An anthology gathers environmental writers and poets in response to threats to the Walshaw Moor peatlands in West Yorkshire, supports windfarms for many contributors, condemns indiscriminate plundering of biodiverse landscapes, and celebrates an irreplaceable habitat. A 1956 comic novel, The Ascent of Rum Doodle, lampoons mountaineering machismo and colonial arrogance with sustained silliness. A survey of London rooming-house fiction highlights several 20th-century writers, with Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont combining humour, ageing and urban loneliness.
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