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	<title>The Beat</title>
	
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		<title>The long night of the homosexual elephants (how to eat an elephant)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:04:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Si Philbrook</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The night of the homosexual elephants we drew out our sharp knives and waited in the dark alleys. Piccadilly was a no go, so we congregated in Soho and Jez whipped the crowd up to a frenzy. We saw a few film stars, out slumming it and enjoying the fireworks. There were others, politicians scurrying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Commemorating the Stoke</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Hunter</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Memories of our summers chasing shore barrels coerce bitter sweet stings of nostalgia every time they creep up and rub the fog from my minds window, showing me brief moments of what once was&#8230;
 
These moments in timeless wandering were the reason we lingered as long as we did in this time warped part of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AUTUMN AND FOREBODING</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Silva</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sleep heavy with snores and thorns!
And noon assumes
a strange sullen darkness
in a room of aching forms
and outside
where the wind, though dry,
presumes
to bend the trees
in autumn gusts.
 
The sky
reflects a likewise shadow,
lordly, in its gentle gloom.
 
At intervals, the cars go by
like prayers from the city&#8217;s dusty center.
 
The computer hums a lullaby
and dreams fall from the eyes awake!
And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackheath Books edition of Beat the Dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The uber trendy BTD has hooked up with Blackheath Books this month for a special collaborative issue of the litzine.  In the October edition they have the latest work from a selection of Blackheath&#8217;s authors &#8211; poetry from Billy Childish, Adelle Stripe, Ben Myers, Darran Anderson, Miles J Bell and Garrie Fletcher, plus fiction from Joseph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Urchin Belle by Jenni Fagan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A while ago I was sent a copy of “Urchin Belle by Jenni Fagan” the book blurb goes something like this “…a debut collection that combines a genuine poetic originality with a startling no bullshit clarity. This is a voice born out of a life lived on the extreme peripheries of society”.
Jenni Fagan
To be honest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>spiral out…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=863</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am often left disappointed by new contemporary American writers. For modern fiction I have found the new breed of British offbeat writers to be more consistently satisfying, and often very extraordinary.
 spiral out an excerpt from the novel by uv ray
This leads me to an extraordinary U.V. Ray a relatively unknown writer who has appeared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LAST DAYS of the CROSS by JOSEPH RIDGWELL</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 

Whilst I’m waiting for my copy of Ridgwell’s new book, I can’t help but wonder “&#8230;will this book be any good?” Is this another attempt by someone trying to be offbeat, neo-prophetic, voice of the common man and brutally satirical? Will the transition from online to print work? Reading Ridgwell&#8217;s work online works because it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A poetry book… but not as we know it</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sean McGahey</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
baby, i’m ready to go is a break-the-rules collection of poems that’s not afraid to mess with convention. it’s a poetry book that mixes the radical with the traditional &#8211; the anarchy of dialect and free verse, with the conformity of rhyme and traditional poetic forms. and that’s not the only thing that sets this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cubicle Crimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:53:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Patient</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Names have been changed to mask the guilty  
Armed with an ironed pencil skirt, toned down to neutral make-up shades, non-offensive stud earrings and a briefcase with only jam sandwiches inside. I was a bundle of clichés. I strolled across town in my head was clogged up with sections from the employee handbook. I would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLITICIAN DEMOLITION</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matthew Harrison</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you lack ambition,
If you lack simple intuition,
If you desire some instant recognition,
Become a politician.
If you would like a new position,
If you can carefully guide us through transition,
If you can come up with many a meaningless rendition,
Feel free to become a politician.
As we sit back and listen to your next proposition,
As we stand up and [...]]]></description>
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