Adrian Slatcher Online
Adrian Slatcher writes poetry, fiction and criticism, and lives in Manchester.
New Poems at All the Sins
It’s been too long since I’ve had any poems published so I was particularly pleased that the online magazine All The Sins has chosen two of my poems “Artist Pop” and “Joni” for their 3rd issue which asked for work inspired by other artists – which these two do – respectively Andy Warhol and Joni Mitchell. Both on the playful side I think.
You can read my poems and other work here at All The Sins Issue 3.
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Art of Fiction – Blogging About Literature
- Farewell, my Lovely by Raymond ChandlerRaymond Chandler's novel "Farewell, my Lovely" is a 1940s noir classic, and rightly so; but its also, like a number of other older books I've read recently - "The Man in the High Castle", "The Day of the Locust" - a very strange novel. I'm not sure whether it is it's strangeness or its familiarity - those noi […]
- Madonna at 60Madonna has tnrned 60, and if you should never mention a lady's age, I guess this has been hailed as a milestone as much because with her reaching (what once was) pensionable age, so much of our own youth goes with her; but also because of all the massive superstars, few embody youth like Madonna. Where did the years go? And more importantly, what' […]
- 10 Good Things In the quest for recognition as a writer it can sometimes seem that life is full of disappointment and rejection. (Don't worry, life IS full of disappointment of rejection...just not all the time!) So I was thinking of some of the tangibly good things that have happened to me as a writer. Here are a few from over the years.1. First PublicationI didn […]
- Art in JulyJuly used to be the month that the art world went into slumber - or at least on its holidays. I've not been over to the Liverpool Biennial which opened a week ago, but I have been catching a bit of art, both local and otherwise.At Castlefield Gallery, the current show is a selection of recent graduates from the MMU School of Art. Recent graduates are al […]
- A Horse Walks into a Bar by David GrossmanIn David Grossman's award winning (it won the International Booker for novels in translation) novel "A Horse Walks into a Bar", a 57-year old comedian comes on stage at a supper club in the Israeli town of Netanya. In the audience is a man who he has invited, to bear witness, a retired judge, who the comedian, Dovaleh G, was at school with. Th […]
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