Chaotic Nightclub Photos: The Review - Gabrielle de la Puente (RT#55)

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Pb 14x21cm 28pp £7.99

Writing with all the trademark verve and deliciously irreverent brio that de la Puente has become
known for as a founder of The White Pube, Chaotic Nightclub Photos: The Review charts one art
critic's voracious appetite for the eponymous Twitter feed and its glut of flashbulb surrealism.
Taking the reader back through the history of artistic representations of nightclubs, de la Puente
finds herself asking why this chaotic, unhinged energy has so often been found wanting in the
cultural depictions of night-time debauchery. Hugely intelligent, readable, personal, playful, and
yet full of deft scholarship and deep knowledge, this is a vital contribution to the lore of the
growing cult of Chaotic Nightclub Photos.

Note from Author... This is like an extended version of the text I originally published on the
website, with a weird story from my real life added, extra gossip.

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Deliria - Jeff Young (RT#56)
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Set against the backdrop of 'the city'-as activation point for dreams, for visions, as a receptacle
for memory, as a canvas for meaning, for art, poetry, sex, for the very stuff of life, and death,
Deliria is a modern-day beat fable conjured by the master craftsman of cityscape poetics, Jeff
Young. As day and night blend and blur across a city captured in its moment of brothels and
cheap railway station hotels, cold beer and endless peregrinations, we are pulled further into both
the place itself, deftly observed, profoundly felt, exquisitely described, and the speaker's bruised
and romantic soul.

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Rory Gallagher - LIVE! From the Hotel of the Dead - Tim MacGabhann (RT#57)
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Tim MacGabhann's Rory Gallagher-Live!-From the Hotel of the Dead is a poetic, psychedelic bar-
crawl of the soul-a multi-faceted conjuring with the seminal pan-Atlantic Ireland-to-the-Americas
cultural criss-crossing. Sections spoken by the titular musician, riffing on the heroes and figures of
America's blues tradition, also talk back to the 'folk process' of loanings and stealings that link
Europe's folk music to that of the Americas, while other voices seem to slip in and out of the
poem, altering our loci in place and time and consciousness-just who's heartbreak is it we're
dealing with here, we ask, the poet's remarkable scope and ambition held in supreme control
even as we descend, hungover, once again.

Translated into the Irish language by Colm Breathnach.

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Learning Lines: Two Short Stories - Cathy Thomas (RT#58)
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In Learning Lines, Cathy Thomas takes the reader behind the curtain of the theatre industry,
revealing its universal anxieties while at the same time detailing a dark world abundant with its
own fakeries and faultlines. In two stories that explore the cracks wrought by a hyper-sexist
culture as well as the slow-burn anticipation of young adulthood and the promise of fame, this is
exquisitely written fiction that ultimately affirms life in the face of all its disappointments and trials.

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