Mike Mignola has been creating something remarkable with his Hellboy series of comics for over a decade now. For me, his short The Troll Witch is a perfect ten-page distillation of what makes Hellboy so special. I read it for the first time this year, in the compilation of shorts The Troll Witch and Others, which …
The first item on my list for 2009 is the poem Rain-Charm for the Duchy by Ted Hughes. As mentioned in the intro to this list below, not everything I’m going to mention was published in 2009. 2009 is simply the year in which I first discovered it. I’m a big Ted Hughes fan, but …
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I’m a part of what was probably the final generation of teenagers to listen to their music on cassette tapes. As such I spent a good deal of time in my formative years agonising over tracklists and the correct order in which songs should appear. I wasn’t quite as bad as the guys in High Fidelity, but the …
A few months back, I came across Mia Pearlman via the webpage of the Cloud Appreciation Society. I think she’s amazing and I can’t wait to get the chance to go and see some of her installations close up. She’s able to capture the way that a cloud is a water-sculpture made by air currents and …