Non-Fiction Following Tracks explores beauty in the quotidian, extracting poetic pleasure from everyday scenes and objects encountered on a coastal walk. Featuring…
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Non-Fiction Abi Underwood-Green blends genres in this creative and poetic essay exploring reasons to write evoking themes of trauma and the quotidian. There will…
Non-Fiction Following Tracks explores beauty in the quotidian, extracting poetic pleasure from everyday scenes and objects encountered on a coastal walk. Featuring photography from…
Daniel Conn’s A Quiet Earth documents the world of Aberdeen’s iconic medium-density housing during the bleakest moments of 2020’s Summer lockdown. The accompanying essay…
Non-Fiction Et In Argot Ego is a genre-leaping essay which delivers a passionate defence, and celebration with relish, of the English language’s reflexivity. Ladies…
Non-Fiction Marka Rifat returns to the Leopard Arts pages with another thought provoking essay with Here’s a Tip a short musing on tipping in…
Non-Fiction In Forgetting Pandemics and Creating History, artist Rory Barclay examines the enduring legacy of the COVID pandemic. Reflecting on the artistic responses to…
Non-Fiction In this exploratory essay, V2K gives his account of how Street Art helps to ground experience within local environment in a spiritual activity….
Non-Fiction Try Reading essay reflects upon the mundanity of lockdown and considers an approach taken by Poet laureate Simon Armitage. “…from a creative point…
Non-Fiction Eden Craw emphatically argues that to Speak Weird is to participate in a marvellous process of grassroots literary transformation. Surely we all know…
Non-Fiction Examining the absurdism of Samuel Beckett’s ‘ Waiting for Godot’, Will Creed turns his attention to TTRPGs as a new outlet for art….
Non-Fiction Tom Byam Shaw reviews the new collection of poetry from Aberdeen-based poet Parel Joy and shines a light on some of the nuances…
Non-Fiction In her reflection on ‘Tales of Silver City’, Imaginatively by Enxhi Mandija the boundaries of Aberdeen’s cultural sphere. A music-hall song and a…
Non-Fiction This essay, from soon after the launch of this website, explores the ideas of the ‘Cutesy Weird ‘ so important to the Spectra…
Non-Fiction Ian Macartney muses upon Melodius Phunk ‘s multi-media performance, which combines live vocals and piano with haunting sections of video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaZzxtC0pEE&ab_channel=Re-Analogue&fbclid=IwAR3YeDzcYU4SOVerUX0mA1LQ9elg7D6PiNNfdi3ZV88cXicn_7jlVnFddqk Of all…
Non-Fiction ‘The Nu Oil’ is a forensic assessment of the current balance of power in the Aberdeen art scene which, seen through the Nuart…
Non-Fiction Ever wanted to peek behind the curtains of Speakin’ Weird? ‘ Zooming On Performance Nights ‘ covers their lockdown sessions with Orla Kelly….
Non-Fiction ‘Aberdeenshire Walks: A Primer’ is a lavish account of the experience of walking, exploring, and experiencing the North-East’s roving hills. When the daylight…
Non-Fiction Playing With(in) Boundaries responds to a previously published essay by Will Creed arguing against the position that TTRPGs can create art. I am…
Non-Fiction In this essay concerning two local musicians, The Glamour of Mica lays the groundwork for a new genre: Aber-disco. SIDE A This isn’t…