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Alex Niven

Alex Niven is lecturer in English Literature at Newcastle University. His pamphlet Newcastle Sonnets is forthcoming in autumn 2018.

“Writing the Unwritten”: The Poetry of Tom Pickard

Alex Niven reviews Tom Pickard’s “Fiends Fell.”...

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POETRY

Heroic Age Post-Modernism

IN SPITE of their now relatively modest reputation, Welsh pop band Super Furry Animals were among the great countercultural heroes of the trans-millennium era. Perhaps the last truly worthwhile Creation Records signing, SFA emerged in 1996 at the tail end of ...

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MUSIC

Daughters of D.I.Y.: Girl Bands from Motown to Modern

FOR A CERTAIN KIND of 21st century liberal, the fight for gender equality in pop has already been won. Adele is the world’s best-selling singer-songwriter. Amy Winehouse is, according to broadsheet lore, the tragically posthumous Voice of a Generation. ...

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