The Madrid Review under Manchester Skies So delighted to have two poems in this awesome cultural icon #madridreview

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The Rutland Panther and the Blair government's abandoned plan to build an eco-town in the Harborough District both feature in a new novel, Stalling an Ambush. In a guest post for Liberal England, its author, Emma Lee, introduces the book.

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Although the Pennbury eco-town is now back in all but name (and without closing Leicester aerodrome), with all the previous valid objections to it now apparently counting for nothing.

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Clear and still, the yard silvery with frost. Each morning the woods are more open, the patches of sky more numerous. The sun-flooded forest of winter doesn't seem so far away now.

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This feels like a big deal! A big thank you to @ianrankin1.bsky.social for recommending LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK in @theguardian.com. Ian also recommends @franapunk.bsky.social’s excellent A BAD, BAD PLACE, which I bloody loved - read it, if you haven’t already!

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