“David Almond’s books are strange
and Ostentation of Peacock is a full display of his transatlantic talent
it could be seen as an astringent critique of the top-down authoritarianism of nationalist politics
many people fell prey to fraudsters who invited them to invest in so-called ‘pyramid schemes’
Red Sky at Night (with Adrian Mitchell)
Try To Be Better Ahmed Barakat “David Almond’s books are strangeTry To Be Better is a multi disciplinary engagement with the idiosyncratic creative practice of W. S. Graham, foregrounding experiment and process. Contemporary writers and artists respond to prompts Graham left in notebooks and letters to create original poetry, illustration, sculpture, painting, scholarship and more. Featuring: Astrid Alben, Nuar Alsadir, Marianne Rthe Arnesen, Edwina Attlee, Tom Betteridge, Rachael Boast, Nancy Campbell, Thomas A.