STUFF HAPPENS

Poetry & prose by Alex Hickman

Keeping things simple, like Boycott

If you’re a cricket fan you’ll know that England have just lost the Second Test in Australia, and that their batsmen have – once again – failed to overcome a disciplined Australian pace attack. Like any sporting series, this one is accompanied by a cacophony of media comment. The Australian press, which feels that it […]

Notes on Trieste

His favourite time was the winter. In summer the city was white hot and gay. Each morning it emptied out onto its slim pebble beaches, citizens crowding into buses and washing away like a tide. They carried swimming things and folding chairs and beds and umbrellas and they set up camp in the stands of […]