Tal al-Mallouhi

Last year, at twenty years of age, this Syrian poet and student was sentenced in a closed court to five years in prison. No evidence of her guilt was divulged and PEN believes she was imprisoned for online writing and poems about Syrian and Palestinian politics. According to Al Jazeera she is the youngest known

Here comes the new wave!

Well what do I know? The Indie writing scene that I postulated might be on its way is here already. Rather a lot of it. If one checked all the websites that have a bearing on one’s own writing these days one would have no time to write at all (chorus of ‘oh, it all

Back scratching with Leighton Buzzard Music Club

I see LBMC have put on their website some of the reviews I’ve done for them over the past 3 years. Here’s the link : http://www.lbmusic.co.uk/. Their season has now finished until September 2012. I’ll liaise with them and get a full set of reviews available here and on their website too. Some of the