Tag: poetry
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June Newsletter – alisonlittle.blog | Running, Lifestyle, Liverpool & Culture
Catch up with June on Alison Little Blog, featuring summer running gear, wedding gift ideas, Liverpool community news, David Hockney’s legacy, powerful poetry, and a preview of July’s adventures.
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Schoolyard Promise to Street Survival: The Story Behind Spliced to Vices
Spliced to Vices is a powerful poem about a childhood friend whose bright future became consumed by addiction, exploitation, and life on society’s margins. Through personal memories and stark social commentary, it reflects on lost potential, fractured communities, and the enduring hope that redemption remains possible.
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Iron Men, not Snow Men
Set on Crosby Beach, this flash fiction gives voice to one of Antony Gormley’s Iron Men, blending humour and reflection on public art, tourism, and cultural legacy.
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Emma Jane Unsworth Opens Liverpool Literary Festival 2025 with “Slags” – A Bold, Bittersweet Dive into Sisterhood and Self-Discovery
Award-winning novelist Emma Jane Unsworth opened the Liverpool Literary Festival 2025 with a lively discussion of her new book Slags — a darkly funny, deeply moving story of sisterhood, growing up in 1990s Manchester, and rediscovering yourself at forty. Inspired by Unsworth’s own teenage diaries and Take That fandom, Slags blends humour and heartbreak across…