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sunday best #23: Emergency Kit

Emergency Kit

Emergency Kit Edited by Matthew Sweeney and Jo Shapcott Published in 1996 by Faber and Faber John McCullough says: “This Faber anthology from 1996 focuses on twentieth century poetry. Specifically, it isolates individual poems that take surprising angles on their subjects, valuing strangeness and imagination. More than any other single…

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Kona Macphee 3rd July 2011 3rd July 2011sunday best book, sundaybest

sunday best #22: The White Hotel

The White Hotel

The White Hotel D.M. Thomas First published in 1981 “Loosely inspired by the case histories of some of Sigmund Freud’s female patients, “The White Hotel” is an idiosyncratic and erudite piece of fiction. I read it many years ago, and will almost certainly never do so again, because the book’s…

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Kona Macphee 19th June 2011 19th June 2011sunday best book, sundaybest

sunday best #21: The Burial

The Burial

The Burial Jennifer Lash First published in 1961 John Wetherell says: “I can’t remember the plot at all. There was a woman who loved geraniums. But the atmosphere is with me vividly, and the personality of the narrator (1st person). One of the author’s poems (Seventh Song from her Suffolk…

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Kona Macphee 12th June 2011 12th June 2011sunday best book, sundaybest

sunday best #20: Bing Bang Boing

Bing Bang Boing

Bing Bang Boing Ideal Inc. Released in 1972 Kona Macphee says: “When I was aged 3 or 4, Andrew who lived next door was given the classic 70s game Bing Bang Boing. One of my most vivid early childhood memories is sitting in his living room and watching the balls…

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Kona Macphee 5th June 2011 5th June 2011sunday best game, sundaybest

sunday best #19: Jan Owen

Poems by Jan Owen

Poems 1980-2008 Jan Owen John Leonard Press, 2008 Tony Linde says: “My recommendation is the poetry of Jan Owen. I’d not come across her before a trip to Australia and New Zealand last winter. Whenever I’m there, I look out for literature, especially poetry, published there that we don’t get…

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Kona Macphee 29th May 2011 29th May 2011sunday best book, sundaybest

sunday best #18: Life After Birth

Life After Birth

Life After Birth Kate Figes First published in 1998 Polly Clark says: “This honest, fulsome, generous and rigorous examination of what happens when a woman becomes a mother was a life-changing document for me when I had a baby. I seemed to enter a world of half-truths, compromises and downright…

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Kona Macphee 22nd May 2011 22nd May 2011sunday best book, sundaybest

sunday best #17: Dogs In Space

Dogs In Space

Dogs In Space Directed by Richard Lowenstein First released in 1986 Kona Macphee says: “Probably best known for featuring the late Michael Hutchence of INXS, Richard Lowenstein’s apparently semi-autobiographical film “Dogs In Space” is an ensemble piece set in a chaotic Melbourne share-house / squat in 1979. It’s by no…

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Kona Macphee 15th May 2011 15th May 2011sunday best movie, sundaybest

sunday best #16: Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman

Surely' You're Joking Mr Feynman

Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman As told to Ralph Leighton First published in 1985 Patrick Andrews says: “A flatmate of mine once handed me his copy of this book, two days before my second-year exams. He was studying International Relations, so he had plenty of time to read whatever the…

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Kona Macphee 8th May 2011 8th May 2011sunday best book, sundaybest

sunday best #15: “They Were Better Live”

They Were Better Live Weddings Parties Anything Recorded live at the Central Club, 1998 Kona Macphee says: “It’s been a long time since I lived in Australia, but one thing that never fails to transport me back there is the music of Weddings Parties Anything – rocky, folky, raucous, political,…

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Kona Macphee 1st May 2011 1st May 2011sunday best album, sundaybest

sunday best #14: The Wilton Diptych

The Wilton Diptych

The Wilton Diptych Unknown artist c. 1395–99 Douglas Robertson says: “As a maker, in whatever discipline you practice, one thing you need to do every now and again is to feed your creative soul. One of my favourite places for this type of artistic nourishment is The National Gallery, in…

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Kona Macphee 24th April 2011 24th April 2011sunday best artwork, sundaybest
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