The planting of an imaginative seed

Dir Dean Puckett, UK 2025 On digital platforms Folk horror has been a thing for a long time, but it’s an over-used term these days. In film terms it appears to mean something heavily influenced by Wit

ONE OF THE MOST GRIMLY FUNNY POEMS OF the past century is Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse,” with its opening salvo about how our parents invariably mess us up. Larkin used a saltier word for “mess,

Spooky tales that resurrect the mythological past

Tales of the uncanny from a master of ambiguity

Actor, presenter and now author Larry Lamb reveals why the written word – particularly verse – has always meant so much to him

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