Siglio Press’s anthology of text-based art, It is Almost That, is a rare gem: a book of pivotal works that have received little critical attention. Because of its attention to the obscure, It is ...

As you read this 750-word essay, I’ll be taking a nap. Or relaxing on my sofa, eating bonbons and reading Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories. I’ll feel that I deserve these luxuries because, ...

I think everyone agrees that words are powerful, but I'm not sure that everyone adheres to the importance of our words. I remember once when I was on vacation in Florida, visiting Cape Canaveral.

As the end of each year looms, there’s a fun tradition amongst news organisations of publishing lists of “new words” coined during the preceding twelve months. The only slight problem with the lists ...

The English language is a beautiful thing if you hear it spoken correctly by native English speakers. Most will use Cambridge and Oxford educated individuals as prime examples of well-spoken words.

You think more words than you speak – perhaps because language really does shape the way we navigate the world THERE I go again, talking to myself. Wherever I am, and whatever I’m doing, words bounce ...

With poetry, plays, short stories and his popular radio programme The Verb, Ian McMillan always has plenty to do. Christian Lisseman catches up with the Poet Laureate of Derby, Leicester and ...

What if life’s most meaningful moments don’t arrive by design, but drift in through the quiet spaces we tend to miss? What follows isn’t just a blog post — it’s a whisper from that stillness. These ...

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