Category: blog
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Eddus Watches: AJ and the Queen
Rupaul’s Drag Race has been a huge success, it’s been on for over a decade with 11 main seasons, 4 all stars seasons, and most recently the excellent UK version for BBC Three. Unsurprisingly Rupaul has been searching for another project to capitalise on this success, to strike while the hot glue gun is hot. […]
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Eddus Plays: Assassin’s Creed 2 (2009/2016)
“I loved Ezio… who wouldn’t want to play as a beautiful, tortured Italian fuck-boy, who is mates (and maybe more?) with Leonardo Da Vinci?” Having been a Nintendo boy for the past few decades there are whole franchises I’ve been interested in playing that I’ve not been able to until now. Last year, I […]
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Creative Folk: Lori Smith
“I like the way my brain works when I’m creating something. I get lost in the process of idea construction and realisation…” Over the summer I interviewed a few friends about their creative processes, as a poet, I wanted to hear from people who were creative in other ways as a way […]
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Polari for Beginners: Unit 1 ‘ello Duckie
Unit 1: ‘ello duckie ‘ello duckie and welcome to Polari for Beginners, a short little bite sized podcast where I teach you how to speak Polari. I’m eddus your host and your local omi palone By the end of this unit you will be able to say hello, goodbye and ask people you […]
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REVIEW: The Europeans – David Clarke & Shrines of Upper Austria – Phoebe Power
No doubt the poets of the future will look back on the era we currently suffer through and wonder how any of us wrote any poems at all, let alone ones about politics. The ongoing and ever-evolving horrors of Brexit have infused themselves into our lives almost completely and I would find it impossible to […]
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REVIEW: So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed – Jon Ronson
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson My rating: 4 of 5 stars Really interesting. Read this as a way to stay off twitter as much as possible. Ultimately the cases of public shaming Ronson gets into are very interesting and ones I remember from when they occurred. The link between twitter and the […]
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REVIEW: The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp
The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was my second reading of this book, first reading for was a few years ago. I came back to it because I have been craving more queer voices and I have a great love for the early to mid twentieth century […]
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REVIEW: The Fish Can Sing – Halldór Laxness
The Fish Can Sing by Halldór Kiljan Laxness My rating: 5 of 5 stars What a beautiful and complex book. It takes in themes of nationhood, the role of parents and grand parents, heroes and the complexities attached to being a creative person. The book works in a funny, meandering way where we learn a […]
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REVIEW: Call Me By Your Name – Andre Aciman
Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman My rating: 5 of 5 stars A universal and beautifully real novel which runs along so easily and wonderfully. Narrated by Elio, the younger of the two, you feel his fears, the thrill of his growing obsession with Oliver and, at moments, his fantasies made real. The […]
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REVIEW: Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen My rating: 5 of 5 stars I love Austen. Her wit and wry humour is something I have enjoyed immensely for a number of years. Knowing her other novels well, this one does have a slightly different atmosphere and tone at moments. For the first half of the book, it […]
Ed Garvey-Long : Coach & Poet 