For as long as I can remember I’ve had this incessant, almost unhealthy obsession with photographs. Whenever I feel like there’s a meeting, a moment, a memory that I never want to forget this overpowering need to capture it in a 6x4 frame takes over my emotions. Emotions that don’t settle until I know I’ve …
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Without a doubt Cyrus Parker's Coffee Days Whiskey Nights is a significant poetry book to be reviewing during Mental Health Awareness Week. They cover so many topics in such a delicately beautiful way that it's hard to decide where to even start in discussing it but I must start by saying it's a realistic piece of …
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Modern day women can feel a pressure to detach themselves entirely from everything they admired about fairytales when they grow up; to feel that striving for a happy ever after is unrealistic and just a product of the world they were brought up in. Andrea Blythe's 'Twelve' is an accessible, enjoyable read that brings to …
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Watching as a female majority poured out of the cinema screen (bar Conor who I had swayed to watch through it being my date night choice), my head feels full of inspiration watching as Jo Marsh and her sisters filled my heart just as they did the first time I read Little Women. Anyone who …
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Like An Open Book 