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31st December 2015
Astra, Blindness, Disability, Environmentalism, Equality and Diversity, Green Party, Israel-Palestine, Novels, Poetry, Politics, Rook Song, Travels

2015: The Year of Listing Wildly

Dec 31st and not only do I realise I haven’t blogged since July, but I find myself unable to post the traditional list of the year’s top ten books, films, or significant events. Far from this being the year of living listlessly, I am afraid the only tallies I can provide right now are a sad roll call of friends…

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Bart Moore Gilbert Irving Weinman Middle East Children's Alliance Migrant Offshore Aid Station Monique Wittig Octavia Butler Russell Hoban The White Helmets Yuri Drobyshev

Riita Lahtinen and Russ Palmer, communicating by touch
6th July 2015
Astra, Blindness, Disability, Mental Health, Novels, Politics, Rook Song, Uncategorized

Blind Creations: Lighting the Grow/volution!

  As the Greeks vote a resounding NO to austerity, here in the UK disabled activists prepare again to storm Westminster on Wednesday to protest the abolishment of the Independent Living Fund. Everywhere the war on the poor is cutting deep, and people are fighting back. We living in desperate times, and yet also there’s an exciting spirit of defiance…

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Aaron McPeake Aravinda Bhat David Johnson Georgina Kleege Hannah Thompson Hemachandran Karah Piet Devos Riitta Lahtinen Russ Palmer Ryan Knighton Sejal Sutaria Vanessa Warne

a cat lying in the shadow of a palm frond on a corrogated roof
20th June 2015
Greece, Politics, Travels, Uncategorized

Greece: Anti-Austerity in Action!

Home from ten days in Greece, a defiant indulgence in the face of my own turbulent finances, and my fourth trip to the country, the first I ever visited in continental Europe. For me the blue waters of Greece run deeper, even, than an emotional reservoir and creative wellspring. A three month stay during the first Gulf War resulted in…

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Corfu Grexit Paxos Syriza Tsipras Zorba the Greek

Green and Red yin yang symbol
12th May 2015
Green Party, Politics

Post-Election Blues: Seeing Red & Voting Green

  So. Here I am, a Kemp Town resident, bleating at the gates of the newly declared Green Socialist People’s Republic of Brighton and Hove to be let in. Not that a change of post code would make much difference. I could move to Liverpool or Glasgow and still be a lost goat chewing down on a rusty old banger…

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Bart Moore Gilbert Caroline Lucas Davy Jones Green Party Labour Party Nancy Platts People's Republic of Brighton and Hove Simon Kirby

21st April 2015
Czech Republic, Novels, Poetry, Travels

Post-Prague Reveries

Ahoj! Here I am back from Prague, where esoteric author Cyril Simsa arranged for me to bring The Gaia Chronicles to the Renaissance bower of the Anglo-American University, and troubadours John McKeown and Lucien Zell invited me to read poetry at Pracovna, an ultra-chic café and ‘co-working space’ built from repurposed factory palettes and hub caps. There’s no pic of…

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Anastasiya Shishkina At the Lennon Wall Cyril Simsa Eva Hauserova Jan Weiss John McKeown Josef Nesvadba Kafka Karel Capek Lucien Zell Madame de Thebes Mary Shelley Prague Slavenka Drakulic The Golem

Secret Cords - Poetry Poster
6th April 2015
Astra, Czech Republic, Novels, Poetry, Rook Song, Travels, Uncategorized

My Prague Spring

I head to Prague tomorrow, on a trip I’m starting to think of as a pilgrimage – a chance to pay homage to the silvery Czech spores that seeded my science fiction fate . . . I’m recalling here my best friend in Canada in grade eight, a Czechoslovakian girl called Nora, with whom I collaborated on a ‘space opera’…

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Cyril Simsa Czech SF Invocations Press John McKeown Karel Capek Lucien Zell Prague R.U.R

Cover of Rook Song by Naomi Foyle
15th January 2015
Novels, Rook Song

Rook Song Flies the Nest!

Rook Song: Book Two of The Gaia Chronicles my Science Fantasy epic from Jo Fletcher Books launches in Brighton Feb 6th – please come & help it fly the nest in style! Continuing Astra’s adventures, Rook Song opens her world up to many people’s stories – it’s eco-dystopia meets radical resistance, a polyphonic hymn to human diversity. To celebrate accordingly,…

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Jo Fletcher Books Red Roaster Rook Song The Gaia Chronicles

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