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Bastille Day, Barbecue Smoke, and the Weight of History

By Caldwell on Mon, 14 Jul 2025

It’s Bastille Day. All across France, sausages sizzle on supermarket grills, fireworks crack like toy guns in the evening sky, and municipal...
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Froggy Came A-Courting (And So Did I)

By Caldwell on Sun, 13 Jul 2025

There’s an old English folk song I half-remember from childhood — “A Froggy Went A-Courting.” It drifts in with its lilting tune and strange courtly...
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And Yet I Still Watch

By Caldwell on Sun, 13 Jul 2025

I scroll through YouTube’s endless thumbnails and I am bored. Bored of the screaming, the sensationalism, the world set permanently to crisis pitch...
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The Flying Brick

By Caldwell on Sun, 13 Jul 2025

I’d been scouring AutoTrader for weeks — every spare moment, even before I passed my full motorcycle test. What I really wanted was one of those...
Autobiography
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Jaws (1988)

By Caldwell on Sat, 12 Jul 2025

I first saw Jaws when I was about eleven, maybe twelve. It was late, a school night, and I couldn’t sleep. I got out of bed, in the bedroom I shared...
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22 of my comments have received 22 Great Feedback votes

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Thank you for your high

Posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2024

Thank you for your high praise.

I was actually drawing on Andrew Marvell's style. Crossed with a question from Steven Wright "Ok, so what's the speed of dark?". He has some good leftfield oneliners that leave you thinking such as "Why isn’...

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Woman of the hour

Posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2024

I watched a 2023 film the other night called Woman of the Hour set in 70s LA. Though it's about a serial killer targeting women, it's actually a study on outdated attitudes towards women in general and unfortunately, there is evidence that these...

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A stark and painful image of

Posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2024

A stark and painful image of womanhood. You capture the cyclical nature of violence, loss, and survival with visceral language—“hollow-eyed blossoms of rape,” “orphans, widowers,” and the repeated “begetting” convey a history of suffering passed...

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Wonderful. Seamus Heaney's

Posted on Mon, 21 Oct 2024

Wonderful. Seamus Heaney's earthy textures, but sparser and more sensual and questioning. "through truffled scurf" and "saltmist warped the wood" are just fantastic.

There's a songwriter I used to listen to called Joanna Newsom who had a...

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Yes, fireworks were a key

Posted on Tue, 24 Sep 2024

Yes, fireworks were a key highlight for me too. And running around with sparklers but so scared of that hot metal. I was a '70s kid so a bit later - we had indoor fireworks too as a pre-show before the big ones outside. My dad more than anyone...

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Your poem reminds me of

Posted on Wed, 25 Sep 2024

Your poem reminds me of something.

There was a German advert featuring a Mr W for a wind energy company called Epuron. I don't know if you've seen it. It's easy to track down on YouTube.

He is large, awkward and looks like a mime...

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Good old Mrs Cooper.

Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024

Good old Mrs Cooper. Entertaining kids without even trying.

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Very atmospheric. I can feel

Posted on Tue, 24 Sep 2024

Very atmospheric. I can feel it all. It's all very familiar, except my dad didn't rule the house with an iron fist.

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Excellent. I had such

Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024

Excellent. I had such compassion. I was cheering with the others even before you/she got to the finish line. Very real and so well told.

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Fabulous

Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024

I enjoyed this profoundly. Not only the fact that like most, I can relate totally, but your lucid dream is so very close to the kind of dreams I experience. I am also indebted to you for reminding me of Lord Acton's quote. For a while now I have...

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