'Empathy is our moral portal gun, and it jams from underuse.'

Don Paterson on Portal 2, catching Covid on the Eurostar, and rereading Ian Hamilton’s 'Against Oblivion'.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/portal-agony

'Few people ... have ever taken Bunting, in his deep strangeness, as representing anything or anyone beyond himself.'

@nemoloris on Basil Bunting, the 'demon of delinquency'.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/long-road-to-briggflatts

'Most national anthems start at the top and find their place with the people ... few come from the people and find their place at the top, though I still live in hope for "Sunshine on Leith".'

Robert Colls on how 'Jerusalem' became our unofficial anthem.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/o-clouds-unfold