A LUSH IDEA: Culture Edition

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Culture Edition

This is not an ordinary message. Or a message asking you to buy a product. This is a curated email for those who still love to read and are committed to reading. The cultured ones; the ones who go to art galleries to appreciate the art; those who still make time for intellectually stimulating films; the ones who go to poetry book launches and not just for the wine; those who still buy theatre tickets; who go see their town's philharmonic orchestra play their favourite romantic composer—well, you get the gist of it.
 
This Culture Edition is the first of a series which I will be curating 2-3 times a month, showcasing cultural and art-related articles posted by independent bloggers and artists. Why on a Monday? Because life is essentially drab, and nothing like art can grab the hand of our imagination to the dance and splash a carnival of hues on the colourless canvas of our lives. The WhatsApp status of good friend of mine, a successful gallery curator, reads:
Earth without art is Eh...”
I think we all agree with that.

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Poetry is no more a stale field. Why? Because women are here (sorry, we were dealing with millennia of exclusion and oppression). And they have matched poetry with new perspectives. Female poets are earning up to £1,000,000 in the UK—breaking all-time records! The poem The Good Witch's Spellbook by Karla Renée Nemanic is a hopeful staccato of dreams and anxieties, right from the inner parts of the heart. 
 
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02
'Do I have a minute to read a story?', you ask? Of course I do. Stop talking now! I have only 55 second to read this.
Flash fiction is such a challenging framework. Yet, an excellent writer such as Tara Campbell effortlessly manages to combine prose and poetry and revive the austere world of the reader with her Antidote in only 100 words! 
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03
Book reviews are hard to write. and if badly written, even harder to read. But Irena's reviews are exceptionally gratifying to read. How do you review a book that couples suicide and humour, without losing reader's short attention span? This is review at its most delightful heights. Rumour has it this is a great book for John Green's fans! 
 
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04
Photography is always progressing as an art that is often responsive to technological developments. But is there still a space for black and white photography? These photographers, including the magnificent Ellen Goodman, unanimously have said "Yes!" to this question and with their cameras they have unquestionably proven their point.
 
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05
This indie film, I Don't Feel at Home in this World Anymore, has won the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize, and has a strong female lead. Your favourite local blogger (that is me!) looks at this Netflix film from a frustrated perspective taking issues with the normalisation of incompetence! Is "incompetence" the new theme of our time, as were angst and ennui for the previous eras?
 
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