Arts BOOK REVIEW: Timber by Dale Lazarov & Player In ‘Timber’, a hunky third-wheel bachelor goes on a quiet hike in his solitude after his paired up friends disturb his sleep by having endless early morning sex in the campgrounds. After completely losing his way in a slightly magical forest, he meets an uncannily-masculine threesome of lumberjacks By Eric Page • 1 min read
Arts Pride Cymru 2017 – colourful, brilliant and proud! As a Welsh Gay man, returning home for this superb, fun, engaging LGBTQ Pride event, I felt truly proud to see my county and capital city embracing LGBTQ folk and rights in such a passionate, friendly and authentic way. What a great BIG weekend and what a welcome from the Cardiff gay boyo’s. Balchd By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: No Fear No Shame by Alice Denny This new collection of poems from Alice Denny, like herself, is slim but packs a punch. There is an essential contradiction in all Denny’s poems; like all poets she’s both startlingly intimate and ruthlessness private, exposing and hiding, showing and telling, letting us feel the throb of blood in h By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Black Wave: Michelle Tea Teas’ prose is wonderful, Queer, lusciously Lesbo, darkly Dykey and frothy, filthy and fun. It’s a seriously gripping and evocative tale of Queer women love in all the messy hyper clarity colourful mixed up ways that Tea can tweak and twist her lady loving ideas into. By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Bitch Doctrine – Essays for Dissenting Adults: Laurie Penny Noted British feminist writer tackles gender, sexism, identity, and power issues in a world being laid waste by “kamikaze capitalism.” From her opening premise that ‘toxic masculinity is killing the world’ you’ve got a really clear idea of where this elegant, refined and ruthlessly researched, argue By Eric Page • 2 min read
Cabaret One funny lady – Hannah Brackenbury “Hannah Brackenbury has been described as Victoria Wood and Tim Minchin’s lesbian love child. She’s more than that. She’s Hannah, and her songs are both bloody funny and beautifully touching.”…..Vicky Nangle (Latest 7). Eric Pages catches up with local funny lass Hannah Brackenbury in a rare moment By Eric Page • 4 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Queer City: Peter Ackroyd Ackroyd connects us modern day queers up with our Celtic and Roman forbearers and all the benders, faggots, dykes, trannies, queers, inverts, perverts, queens, Ganymede’s, sappho’s, cross dressers, gender twisters, fops, dandies, genderqueers and utterly baroque non binary beauties (and run of the By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: Ocean Vuong: Night sky with exit wounds This book is a magical journey into the imagination and talents of Vuong’s mind and worth pursing for anybody interesting in poems which can change, more spells than sentences, they alter reality as we read them and leave us impressed and impressed upon by this astonishing young man’s collection of By Eric Page • 2 min read
Community News PICTURE DIARY: World Pride in Madrid, 2017 Madrid World Pride 2017 opened with a ceremony that took place in the Teatro Calderon and the streets around were packed full of expectant Spanish and visitors. This is a city that takes Pride and an excuse for a party very seriously indeed. The weather was cooler than usual (which was lovely as it By Eric Page • 3 min read
Arts REVIEW: Jane Eyre @Theatre Royal The plot roars, of unjust life and hope, of love and wonder, of duty and cruelly, of lost folk and lack of opportunities and of the voices of clear minds that yearn and ache for recognition and love and it’s true to Bronte in that. Simple, evocative, engaging and seriously well acted this is thorou By Eric Page • 5 min read
Arts BOOK REVIEW: The Hopkins Conundrum by Simon Edge New gay author Simon Edge bring us this lovely story of poems, nuns, persecution, the welsh countryside and some romantic intrigue and it’s a delicious read with some hints into Hopkins homoerotic experiences and the poetry itself washing though the book entwined in the whirls and eddies of Edges gr By Eric Page • 2 min read
Arts REVIEW: Shirley Valentine @Theatre Royal I could gush more, I will gush more, but book yourself a ticket now, this was an unexpected treat and I left feeling empowered by Russell’s life affirming writing, as relevant now as it was thirty years ago, and enchanted by this tour de force performance from Prenger. With the audience on their fee By Eric Page • 3 min read
