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A Future Head of Augustus Looms down Baby faced leader Acquisition of colonialism Castles stand proud Once battlements Survived invasions Safeguard our shores Across the beaches Horseback troops thrust galloping to battlement Faster and Faster Classic novels align Our past, our heritage The Empire, British supremacy Victories acclaimed, territory conquered Trains travel coastal bound Frontiers…

  The top 10 reasons why Barbie must die and be with us no longer. 10 Goes out with Ken. 9 Drives very slow cars. 8 A bit too fond of Pink! 7 Delicate and brakes easily. 6 Does nothing other than leisure activities. 5 Injection moulded, resulting in her looking like every other injection…

Seventy years on from when the girls annual of the 1950’s were being read in the  pink bedrooms of the post-second world war generation we look back at there content. Where they looking to inspire the girls who would grow up to lead second-wave feminism through the seventies, or were they looking to indoctrinate the…

Sinister Smiles Folded over Strapped down Sectioned off Cajoled, centrally Dropped down from a disheveled Heaven Tossed out of Godliness Rejected from comfort provision for the afterlife No longer good enough, surplus to requirements Perhaps pushed out of a boot Uphill reversing, then shoveled out the back way Redundant of domestic interior requirements Rendering green space urban…

Arched: the Mural was a design submitted for Leeds Kirkgate Market, proposed by Alison Little. The Mural draws inspiration from the cast iron Victorian arches which adorn the interior of Kirkgate Market. The central notion of a triangular structure frame is core to the composition. This is to be painted in gold acrylics to echo…

Last month a part of Heritage Week, Friends of Williamson Tunnels took us deep down into the hollows of Edge Hill to view the latest of their excavation work and forever new findings. The Williamson’s Tunnels were created over four decades starting from the early 1800s. Joseph Williamson, the man behind the labyrinth of passageways…

Graphic Art: Leeds was a banner design proposal put forward for North Street in Leeds city centre. A graphic art piece which will excite and reflect the modern, dynamic, newly cosmopolitan city of Leeds. The backing tones and the image of greenery reflect the cities status as the unofficial capital of Yorkshire. An image of…

A Respectable Woman is the latest poem penned by Alison Little around the theme of Truth for National Poetry Day 2019. It was performed by Alison at the Life Rooms in Walton and for Sefton Slams at Crosby Library.   A Respectable Woman Respectable, woman I am Married, my working man Toddler hand, baby in…

A year ago this week David Hockney’ stained glass window design to mark the reign of Queen Elizabeth the Second was revealed. The window received many reviews, many positive, many negative. The Queen was claimed by Hockney to Say: ‘An amazing brightness and clarity, it is a simple, utterly recognisable, direct scene. From Hockney’ birthplace,…