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Intercept go-along interviews for urban health research: reflections from the field
ABSTRACT In this paper, we offer some reflections from doing intercept go-along interviews. Discussions are centred around our experiences drawn from a range of research focused on understanding interconnections of people, place and health in the context of urban greenspaces.
Carol Rumens obituary
Declan Ryan Rumens' first poetry collection, A Strange Girl in Bright Colours, was published in 1973, and her own writing was, from the off, a sophisticated blend of competing impulses.
Carol Rumens obituary
Carol Rumens was an inventive, discursive and cosmopolitan poet as well as a generous advocate and champion of poetryPhotograph: PR Company Handout (Photograph: PR Company Handout) Carol Rumens, who has died aged 81 after suffering from a brain tumour, was an inventive, discursive and cosmopolitan poet as well as a generous champion of poetry in her long-running weekly Guardian column.
I read the debut novel from Britain’s ‘men-first’ publisher. It’s full of pubs and sex
Cumbrian author Shaun Wilson’s debut novel, Malc’s Boy, will be a proof of concept for Conduit - Conduit Books Malc’s Boy – the debut of Cumbrian novelist Shaun Wilson – is the first book from Conduit Books, a new press whose genesis, and chief selling-point, has attracted attention. For Conduit, founded by the writer and critic Jude Cook, intends to focus only on publishing male writers. This might sound like a confrontational stance.
Booze, boys and Benzedrine - the tragic life of WH Auden
A new biography explores the life of WH Auden, one of the most important and enduring poets of his time - Harry Redl/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images It might have been the most cultured house-share of the 20th century. In 1940, WH Auden was living in Brooklyn Heights in a house full of artists, including the novelist Carson McCullers; Erika Mann, daughter of Thomas, and Auden’s then-wife (for political, not romantic, reasons); composer Benjamin Britten; and “burlesque entertainer” Gypsy Rose Lee.
“Modern European,” by Declan Ryan | The New Yorker
Although we speak, now, to each other in new ways we can still meet here, I think. We always have. Rain outside, my sky all whites and grays; this week the leaves have started coming down. I’m not sure where—a sea away, one hour— you’ll be right now; outside, I’m sure, a hike.
A finely wrought portrait of troubled marriages in freezing 1960s Britain
A skier being pulled along behind a car in Earl’s Court, London, December 1962 - Getty Images The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller The Land in Winter is Andrew Miller’s 10th novel, and has been shortlisted for next month’s Booker Prize. An elegant and finely wrought book about the disappointments and compromises that develop throughout a marriage, it has, for all its tightness of time-scale, the expansive atmosphere of Shirley Hazzard’s work.
Seamus Heaney’s newly discovered poetry is proof he was one of the best
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Dissociation Between Subjective Sensory Reactivity and Visual Perceptual Sensitivity in Autistic and Non‐Autistic Adults: A Brief Report
1 Introduction Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by differences in social communication and restricted, repetitive behaviors, including atypical sensory responses (American Psychiatric Association 2013). Sensory differences in autism are most commonly measured using self- or proxy-report questionnaires (DuBois et al. 2017), which indicate that up to 95% of autistic individuals experience atypical sensory processing (Baranek et al. 2006; Ben-Sasson et al.
Brawl for All | Sean Nam
Sham prizefighting goes by many names these days—crossover boxing, celebrity boxing, influencer boxing—but it’s been around a long time. In the 1940s, a retired Jack Dempsey, folk hero of the Roaring Twenties, struck a path on the comeback trail by taking on a string of wrestlers. In 1975, George Foreman traveled to Toronto to flatten five tomato cans, one after the other, in a single night, in a bid to restore his confidence after Muhammad Ali had shattered it in Zaire.
The best poetry books of 2025 so far
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April: Wellwater by Karen Solie “There is no going back,” Karen Solie writes in “Red Spring”, a controlled explosion of a poem about the ruination of farmland by selfish corporations (in this case, the chemicals giant Bayer). As a phrase, it might stand as the refrain for Wellwater, the Canadian poet’s sixth collection and an almost unreasonably wonderful book.
Scaling up natural experimental studies: harnessing emerging technologies to transform physical activity and built environment research
Comment Open access Published: Show authors International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity 22, Article number: 44 (2025) Cite this article Abstract Evaluating how built environment interventions influence physical activity is crucial for informing effective policies.
Changes in Dietary Habits and Reported Barriers to Healthy Eating Amongst UK University Students
You are already at the latest version Attendance at university often presents significant personal, environmental, and social changes to an individual. Such changes are likely exacerbated in young students given the transition from living at home, and the increased independence that attendance at university often requires. These factors may influence the dietary habits of students, which is important to consider for long-term health and maturation, as well as academic performance.
The best sports books of 2024, from cricket’s soul to Sven’s goodbye
When it came to sporting literature, 2024 seemed to range more widely than ever. We had personal unburdenings, deep-dives into dirty money, and nostalgic dreams of better days. But no book could match the emotional heft of A Beautiful Game (Michael Joseph, £25), the posthumous memoir of Sven-Göran Eriksson.
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Undisputed: Fury vs. Usyk
By Declan Ryan June 6, 2024 At about 1 A.M. local time in Riyadh, on a Saturday in late May, Tyson Fury and Oleksandr Usyk met in the center of the ring for the chance to become the “undisputed” heavyweight champion of the world. It was the first time in twenty-five years—since the Brit Lennox Lewis beat the American Evander Holyfield—that boxing would be able call one man its sole heavyweight champion due to the money-spinning, head-scratching antics of its various governing bodies.
Michael Crichton, James Patterson and an exploding volcano? This novel is ludicrous
Michael Crichton died in 2008. But as his widow Sherri tells us, the Jurassic Park author left behind an unfinished manuscript about a supervolcanic eruption, along with reams of volcano research. No doubt intrigued by the prospect of this lost world, created by a thriller writer praised for the quality of his ideas, his peer James Patterson signed on (in Sherri’s words) “to honour [Crichton’s] work and continue his story”.
The Bullet by Tom Lee review – a complicated inheritance - NewsBreak
The derelict Severalls hospital in Colchester, where the author’s parents were patients. Photograph: Simon Webster/Alamy The year 2008 “should have been a good time in my life”, the novelist Tom Lee reveals in this memoir. He was a new father, homeowner, and his first book was imminent. Instead, he was in emotional freefall because of acute anxiety. “I had forgotten how to be, ” he writes. The bullet of the title is mental illness, one he felt was heading his way, because of its impact on his family.
Martin Bax obituary
Ambit continued to be published until 2023, becoming one of the UK’s longest-running periodicalsPhotograph: none As the title of his 2018 memoir, Two Lives to Lead, hinted at, Martin Bax’s working life was split between two equally demanding duties – that of a consultant developmental paediatrician who published extensively on child disability, and founder of the long-running literary and arts magazine Ambit. Bax, who has died aged 90, also wrote fiction, while continuing his work within the NHS.
Effects of once- versus twice-weekly eccentric resistance training on muscular function and structure in older adults: a randomised controlled trial - Scientific Reports
Abstract Adherence rates to current twice-weekly strength training guidelines are poor among older adults. Eccentric-only training elicits substantial improvements in muscle function/size so the aim of this study was to compare the effects of once- versus twice-weekly eccentric training programmes on muscle function/size in older adults. Thirty-six participants (69.4 ± 6.0 yr) were randomised into non-active control, once-, or twice-weekly training groups.
This story of radicalised young men sounds too like a liberal op-ed
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This story of radicalised young men sounds too like a liberal op-ed
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This story of radicalised young men sounds too like a liberal op-ed
An English Defence League protest in 2010 and a radical Islamic one in 2011, both in London - Getty/DT Nicolas Padamsee’s debut novel, England is Mine, is a story of radicalisation. Its dual narrative switches between David, an increasingly disaffected teenager of mixed Iranian and British heritage, and Hassan, an east Londoner and David’s college coeval whose life pivots around a Muslim youth centre and his father’s takeaway.
A debut novel about boxing? It’s an absolute knockout
Headshot is Rita Bullwinkel’s first novel, and is set over the two days of an amateur boxing tournament for teenage girls, the ‘Daughters of America Cup’, in Reno, Nevada. It’s structured – like the tournament – into quarters, semis and final, the action of each fight forming the spine, but not the totality, of each section. As it begins, “Everything the coaches have taught the girls is in the past.” This is a simple premise for an excellent book.
Alan Brownjohn obituary
Alan Brownjohn in 1992. ‘Like Larkin, Brownjohn has spent much of his career pondering the contradictions between desire and obligation,’ said the writer Sean O’Brien. Photograph: Graham Turner/The Guardian Alan Brownjohn, who has died aged 92, was a prolific and seemingly indefatigable poet and novelist.
Pity by Andrew McMillan review – an excavation of identity and collective memory
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Pity by Andrew McMillan review – an excavation of identity and collective memory - NewsBreak
Award-winning poet Andrew McMillan ’s first novel takes place in a world immediately recognisable from his three collections of poetry – Physical , and Pandemonium . It is set in his native Barnsley, a town still living in the shadow of the destruction of its mining industry and the after-effects of Thatcherism.
2023: Poetry's Year in Prose
As another year comes to its inglorious close, we’re taking stock of the features published over the last 12 months—nearly three dozen pieces that introduce new poets, celebrate old ones, and rediscover those who’ve been awaiting fresh eyes.
The best poetry books of 2023 so far
A godlike Artificial Intelligence becomes sentient, secretly escapes the firewall built to contain it, then alerts humanity to its existence. How does Scotland respond? By naming it “Andy”. As in Andy Dufresne – “because,” as From Our Own Fire’s narrator explains, “the sneaky wee radge went full Shawshank.” What else, from the country that once christened a polar cyclone Hurricane Bawbag? Until two years ago, my Scottish Sci-Fi Verse Novels shelf was empty. Yours probably was as well.
The kidnapped boy who grew up to be one of America’s finest poets
Shane McCrae is a rightly garlanded US poet, with one of the most accomplished bodies of work of his generation. This memoir makes his achievement seem all the more remarkable. It details the mixed-race author’s kidnapping by his white grandparents, when he was three (or perhaps younger), and their attempts to erase his father – and his blackness – from his mind and life. The grandparents insisted on being treated as his parents, cutting their daughter out almost as much as McCrae’s father.
A harrowing vision of Ireland as an sinister police state
The Irish writer Paul Lynch’s Booker-longlisted fifth novel, Prophet Song, is a book of encroaching terror, an atmosphere of foreboding seeded from its opening lines where “the dark gathers without sound the cherry trees. It gathers the last of the leaves and the leaves do not resist the dark.” Larry, a trade unionist, comes to the attention of the sinister-seeming new GNSB branch of an alternative Ireland’s gardaí and, after going on a march with fellow teachers, doesn’t return home.
Fancy a boat-trip to the Moon? Not with these characters
“It was very possible that the true subject, the way it always was the true subject… was language.” Coming not for the first, or indeed last, time in Adam Thirlwell’s new novel, this turn-to-camera by its socialite protagonist, Celine, hints at what heart there is to the matter.
The Housemates by Teun Toebes review - the dementia nurse who moved in with his patients
“If you’re talking to Teun, it’s bound to be about dementia.” That is the refrain of the friends of Teun Toebes, a remarkable nursing student from the Netherlands. At the age of 21, nearing the end of his studies and with a background in caring for patients with dementia, he made the radical decision to move into a nursing home to live as housemate, not employee. The result, this book, has already made waves in his homeland, where it was a bestseller and hand delivered to the prime minister.
Fancy a boat-trip to the Moon? Not with these characters
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Ten Poems About Sport Recommended by Declan Ryan
Mick Imlah, ‘London Scottish’ Imlah was a keen sportsman and in another poem, ‘Stephen Boyd’, wrote that ‘sport matters because it doesn’t matter / By such a ruse, if not for long, worse things could be postponed’ which pretty well sums it up.
From “All Souls”
In the cupboard, a pocket watch in its case, velvet ribbon knotted on the click and winder black as wet roads, soft as a tongue in the shadow of a closed mouth. Its precision jewel bearing is ruby. Its spade and whip hands would snap off with pressure from the smallest finger. And yet the escapement enforces its circle of unbreakable numbers. Someone has let it run down. Don’t turn back, it’s the wrong way, is the relation of chronology to history at all valuable here.
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck review – subtle insights into politics and passion
On the surface, Kairos is the simple story of an affair in late 80s Berlin between 19-year-old Katharina and Hans, a married writer 34 years her senior. The imbalance of power, death of idealism and creeping paranoia that characterise their relationship is a study of geopolitics in miniature. What begins as fate – the pair get on the same bus and build a mythology around this chance encounter and other apparent “signs” – becomes an agreement of sorts.
Chloroform and cocaine: the secrets of a 100-year-old Tour de France film
1923 Tour de France winner Henri Pélissier Ned Boulting’s voice is synonymous with cycling coverage and, as one might expect, he has a devotee’s commitment to the sport. “This is the story of an obsession,” he writes at the beginning of 1923, a curious, absorbing mix of historical sleuthing and travel writing. He’s not lying.
Literary fun and games
‘When everyone appears to be of one accord in thinking the right thing, go the other way.’ This was, broadly speaking, the maxim by which J.C. wrote his weekly N.B. column for the Times Literary Supplement, after inheriting it from David Sexton in 1997. Tonally different to the rest of the paper, N.B. under J.C. became a place where a contrary spirit found its expression in a series of ongoing, in-joking set pieces.
Andrew Motion pays tribute to his poetic mentors
Andrew Motion has previously published a memoir of childhood, In the Blood (2006), but this new book focuses on his becoming a poet, his search for mentors and subsequent writing life. Motion, a country boy, has a Words-worthian bent, and talks about the pull of evocative recollections, already hardening when he entered adulthood, as ‘equivalent to the songs of the Sirens’, explicitly ‘spots of time’.
Old God’s Time by Sebastian Barry review - a cop you can’t trust
Photograph: Paul Faith/AFP/Getty Images Sebastian Barry has been acclaimed as a novelist, playwright and poet, twice winning the Costa book of the year for his novels The Secret Scripture and Days Without End, and serving as laureate for Irish fiction from 2018-21. It’s heartening, then, to see him continuing to take risks, as he does in his new novel, his 11th.
A Down-and-Out but Amusing Character: On Alex Harvey’s “Song Noir”
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Robert Lowell's Memoirs
In an exceptionally gifted generation of American poets, Robert Lowell was, in his lifetime, number one. That was the critical consensus at least after Robert Frost’s death in 1963 left space at the head of the table. Since Lowell’s own death in 1977, however, his reputation has waned, while others in his circle – especially his friend Elizabeth Bishop – have outstripped him. Read Full Article »
Everything’s Great When You’re Downtown
Fremont Street began with the railroad. In May of 1905, William A. Clark, a U.S. senator and Montana mining baron, held an auction for land he owned along a route connecting Salt Lake City and Los Angeles, with what would eventually become Las Vegas serving as a midpoint stop. The two hotels built on the land that was auctioned, the Nevada and the Overland, sat in what was then a business district, with gaming sequestered one block over until 1910, when gambling was banned outright in the state.
Clodronate detection and effects on markers of bone resorption are prolonged following a single administration to horses
ORIGINAL ARTICLE Abstract en Background Clodronate is a potent antiresorptive agent labelled for use in horses over 4 years of age, for the treatment of navicular syndrome. Concerns regarding the extra-label use of clodronate in equine athletes, such as racehorses, have been raised as inhibition of osteoclast activity by clodronate has been postulated to interfere with normal bone healing, which is imperative to the repair of microfractures.
Feeling Versus Argument: On Tom Conaghan’s “Reverse Engineering”
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The Resounding Darkness of America’s Black Sites
It was midafternoon on one of the hottest days of the year. But as we descended the spiral staircase into the underground prison, the light quickly vanished. By the time we reached the main corridor it was as dark and cold as night. I tried to keep pace with my guide as his flashlight traced the graffitied, bloodstained walls. We were beneath the summit of Coyotepe, a small mountain that rises over the city of Masaya in Nicaragua.
A Solo on the Pipe: On Julia Copus’s “This Rare Spirit: A Life of Charlotte Mew”
NOVEMBER 11, 2021 IF THERE IS an abiding vision left of Charlotte Mew among what amounts to the current reading public, it’s likely one steeped in various forms of diminishment: a vague sense of her being notably small in stature (“an imp with brains”); of her poems, themselves containing figures from the put-upon margins, being pushed to the side of the canon; a general air of repression and want in restrictive petticoats.
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