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SGBCC Day 3 – Aquaria

This is day three of my Lent 2013 Steam Game Back Catalogue Challenge. Aquaria is the first game so far that I have voluntarily and enthusiastically played beyond the hour I promised as part of this challenge. This is particularly … Continue reading

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SGBCC Day Two: Anna

This is day two of my Lent 2013 Steam Game Back Catalogue Challenge. I probably won’t be giving Anna a full hour, as it is already after midnight as I boot it up. I have been unable to play it … Continue reading

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SGBCC – Day One: A.R.E.S. – Extinction Agenda

This is day one of my Lent 2013 Steam Game Back Catalogue Challenge. A.R.E.S. – Extinction Agenda is a side-scrolling shooter – you play Ares, a robot immune to a weird gas that has troubled at least two expeditions to … Continue reading

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Lent 2013 – The Steam Game Back Catalogue Challenge

Last year, for Lent, rather than give up something negative (chocolate, alcohol, swearing, cake), I decided to do something positive each day instead. I read, and shared, a poem every day. This year I wanted to do something similar, so … Continue reading

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Lent 40: Sonnet

My sister tells me, on reading the selections I’ve made over the past 40 days, that statistically I like sonnets. This was news to me. In all honesty, I probably only recognise that a sonnet is indeed a sonnet about … Continue reading

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Lent 39: Mother-love

This poem, by Christine Coleman, is the second one in Bluebeard’s Wives, an anthology edited by Julie Boden and Zoe Brigley, with a foreword by Sophie Hannah. As you can imagine, it’s a collection of poems inspired by the tale … Continue reading

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Lent 38: Eunoia

I utterly adore this book. Christian Bök’s Eunoia is a playful example of what you can do with and without each of our five vowels. Each vowel has its own chapter, in which it has a starring role – in … Continue reading

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Lent 37: Answering Back

Answering Back, an anthology edited by Carol Ann Duffy, is a fantastic idea for a varied collection of poetry. It is subtitled as “Living poets reply to the poetry of the past” – where a range of poets are invited … Continue reading

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Lent 36: Four Women Poets – on schools and poetry

I got this book, Four Women Poets as someone’s unwanted cast-off. It features Liz Lochhead, Carol Ann Duffy, Jackie Kay and Fleur Adcock. I don’t like it. It feels like poetry for school kids. It probably is. I love Duffy, … Continue reading

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Lent 35: Man and Boy

After yesterday’s Mrs Noah, I promised another bible-inspired story. This one is by Patience Agbabi, from her collection Bloodshot Monochrome, and is based around two bible stories – that of Abraham being prepared to kill his only son Isaac on … Continue reading

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