michaelkjarvie7
SONATA FORM - SONATA FAILURE?
My work in progress Sonata Form is a 63,000 word literary novel, metafictional in nature, set in one specific location, namely...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Jan 19
- 3 min
Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic
Stu Hennigan is a senior librarian in Leeds. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he volunteered to deliver food parcels and medicines on behalf...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Jan 13
- 6 min
I'd Rather Be a Striker Than a Scab
It’s Wednesday, the 4th of January, and yet another day of the protracted RMT strike. When I worked as a revenue protection officer at...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Aug 12, 2022
- 12 min
Sonata Form Chapter 2
When the trolley arrived, it snapped Brock out of his reverie and brought him back to reality. He righted the cup and watched as a member...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Jun 24, 2022
- 6 min
Snowflake Tornado
Stewart Lee is the undisputed master of anti-comedy, or, if you like, meta-comedy. Drawing on Bertolt Brecht’s theatrical technique,...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Nov 25, 2021
- 11 min
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SONATA FORM CHAPTER 1 The movement of the silver pointer was smooth and inexorable. At the appointed hour, the insistent clamour of the...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Nov 24, 2021
- 2 min
Inner Life
You’re a working-class writer: an oxymoron personified. Marx’s alienation made flesh. The year of the virus cast you further adrift when...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Nov 23, 2021
- 3 min
With Friends Like These
Although various factors are responsible for where you ultimately reside in the social pecking order, it isn’t hard to establish which is...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Nov 21, 2021
- 4 min
COMING BACK TO LIFE
Two weeks with no hot water or central heating takes a heavy toll. It’s a demoralising state of affairs. At one point, I even speculate...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Feb 18, 2021
- 2 min
The War Merit Cross
It’s dark in here and smells of burning axle grease, stale canvas and leather. Because of the cramped conditions, we’re constantly...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Nov 29, 2020
- 4 min
Go Home!
This is an analysis of the kind of issues and problems that arise when writing a short story, and my commentary should be of benefit to...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Jul 3, 2020
- 5 min
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Reading Dracula is a bit of a chore – like giving blood. And at approximately 120,000 words it’s going to keep you turning its pages for...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Jul 1, 2020
- 5 min
The Piano Recital
To reach Central Hall is to negotiate a series of labyrinthine passageways, followed by a number of doors and two flights of stairs. User...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Jun 15, 2020
- 4 min
BEECH WOOD
At night Beech Wood is alive with the calls of tawny owls, like woodwind players rehearsing their flutter-tonguing technique for...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Apr 26, 2020
- 7 min
Our Friends in the North and the Corbyn Years
Our Friends in the North, written by Peter Flannery, is a nine-part BBC drama series from 1996. Although it spans a period of years from...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Apr 1, 2020
- 4 min
VIRUS VIGILANCE
With all of this hand washing and sanitizing I feel like a method actor rehearsing for the part of Lady Macbeth. The trouble is that this...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Mar 10, 2020
- 3 min
A Queer Little Book
Bella is based on a real historical event, which over the years has become mythologized. All that we know for certain is as follows. In...
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michaelkjarvie7
- Jan 25, 2020
- 8 min
ASDA GAMMON
The aisles in Asda are rife with gammon. I’m acutely aware of this depressing fact as I place a bottle of semi-skimmed milk in my basket....
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michaelkjarvie7
- Nov 5, 2019
- 7 min
THROWING THE FRAME AND DROPPING A BAG
Throwing the frame is the act of sorting the mail before you leave the office to deliver it. The modular frame is configured in much the...
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Michael Jarvie
- Oct 21, 2019
- 8 min
Béla Bartók: folk music, censorship and anti-fascism
If you’ve ever seen Stanley Kubricks’ film The Shining you will have heard some of Bartók’s characteristic ‘night music’ – in this...
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