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Bookstore and blog, Thistle Corner is heart and home to the written works of Lee James Broadwood. Showcasing poetry, novels, short stories, essays and more, as well as a hub of writing tips and tricks, and a fresh bookstore. All Thistle Corner products are green, delivered in eco-friendly and biodegradable. Lee James Broadwood's poetry collections are all stocked in Foyles, Waterstones, Amazon and Blackwells. Welcome to… Thistle Corner Bookstore and Blog About What Is Thistle Corner? Why "Thistle Corner"? What Are Thistle Corner's Values? Bookstore BOOKS, NOTEBOOKS AND BOOK ACCESSORIES Each book printed on demand, especially for you. Books delivered in satisfyingly wrapped themed boxes with personal trinkets and sweet treats. To play, press and hold the enter key. To stop, release the enter key. GREEN FOCUS ON NATURE: All packaging 100% biodegradable. All products 100% eco-friendly. See More of My Work Visit My Bookstore Blog Thistle Corner publicises bite-sized articles on: Personal reflections Updates on my works and new books Writing tips and tricks Book recommendations Updated every Thistle Thursday! How to Overcome Writer's Block (3/3) How to Overcome Writer's Block (2/3) How to Overcome Writer's Block (1/3) Realistic Character Speech and Movement: Observe Those Closest to You First! What to Expect from the Thistle Corner Blog! How to Scrap Bad Ideas! Finding and Preparing for Writing Competitions: Advice from a Shortlisted Novelist of Pen to Print's The Book Challenge 2025 THE FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER: Shortlisted for Pen to Print's Book Challenge 2025 Writing Competition What Is Thistle Corner? Why "Thistle Corner"? Psstt...! Not a Reader? ...Know Someone Who Is?! What Are Thistle Corner's Values? Enter your details below to subscribe! Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! What would you like to see from Thistle Corner? Submit Thank you! Your message has been sent!

The Film Podcast is hosted by interdisciplinary artist Lee James Broadwood and presents global criticism, cinema history, tips, personal reflections, and film reviews. The Film Podcast hosted by Lee James Broadwood For episode transcripts, click on the icon on the audio player. Want to listen on the go? The Film Podcast can play whilst this page is in the background.

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Frequently asked questions about performance analyses by interdisciplinary artist Lee James Broadwood. The Live Performance Mentor: combining critical theory and performance analysis to provide technical feedback for London’s live artists. The Live Performance Mentor combining critical theory and performance analysis to provide technical feedback for London’s live artists FAQs About The Performance Critic What is The Live Performance Mentor? The Live Performance Mentor is a professional service provided by interdisciplinary artist Lee James Broadwood to theatremakers and live performance artists desiring expert feedback on their work. The service is available in person across the UK and online across the globe, and in the form of consultations, workshops or performance analyses. Sessions can range from introductory or rapid-advice sessions lasting 30 minutes to full-day sessions lasting 8 hours. Where and for how long has The Live Performance Mentor been active? As a provider of performance analyses, The Live Performance Mentor has been active for six years now, releasing analyses both publicly on this site and privately, by request. During this time, the service has been available in London and Brighton, UK, and in Nantes, France. It was also available across the entirety of the UK and to clients in the USA during the 2020-2021 "lockdowns". Currently, in-person consultations and workshops are offered in London, and online sessions are available to clients across the globe. Whilst public performance analyses of physical performances are available only to those in London, performance analyses are offered to performances taking place elsewhere or viewable only by recording/livestream. What is a performance analysis? Where theatre/performance critic newspaper articles or journals, or theatre/performance review blogs, publish commercial reviews or promotional content, The Live Performance Mentor's performance analyses assess the integrity and efficacy of live performances and their origin texts/scores. Though public performance analyses are accessible to all my website visitors, analyses are intended to benefit the overall craft and creative awareness of the theatremakers and performance artists who request them. Performance analyses assess all aspects of the work, including acting and performing techniques and styles; choreography, dance and movement; story and plot development, structure and continuity; lighting, sound, set and costume design/operation; written texts; and more. They concentrate on what was original, poignant, articulate and coherent about the performances in study, what was not, and why. It is also common that they suggest alternative methods that could have avoided unwanted tensions, awkwardness, blandness or fallibility. Performance analyses, unlike commercial reviews, do not provide the reader with subjective responses to or general synopses of performances, nor do they intend to promote the creatives' work to readers or to celebrate the past, present and upcoming successes of these creatives. They are offered for dramaturgical, critical and pedagogic purposes only and consider solely the specific performance in study as it currently stands. Who writes The Live Performance Mentor's performance analyses? All performance analyses are written by Lee James Broadwood. Is the service free? Some services are free, yes! Otherwise, services are kept affordable. Please visit The Live Performance Mentor's site to see a full breakdown of services and their prices. Please note: All reviews are offered subject to the provision of a complimentary ticket to your performance, as per industry standards. The cost of a ticket to your performance cannot be deduced from the amount required for the release of a private review. To cover travel costs is not necessary. No VAT is applied on payment. Can I find The Live Performance Mentor on social media? The Live Performance Mentor is on social media, yes! @mytheatrementor across all platforms. Alternatively, you can follow Lee James Broadwood on all social media platforms, where public performance analyses are shared amongst other exciting content: @ljbroadwood Is it possible to be notified whenever a new public performance analysis is published? You can subscribe to this website to be notified whenever new content is released by Lee James Broadwood. Alternatively, you can follow The Live Performance Mentor on social media to discover public performance analyses and other exciting content: @mytheatrementor Requesting a Review What is The Live Performance Mentor? The Live Performance Mentor is a professional service provided by interdisciplinary artist Lee James Broadwood to theatremakers and live performance artists desiring expert feedback on their work. The service is available in person across the UK and online across the globe, and in the form of consultations, workshops or performance analyses. Sessions can range from introductory or rapid-advice sessions lasting 30 minutes to full-day sessions lasting 8 hours. Where and for how long has The Live Performance Mentor been active? As a provider of performance analyses, The Live Performance Mentor has been active for six years now, releasing analyses both publicly on this site and privately, by request. During this time, the service has been available in London and Brighton, UK, and in Nantes, France. It was also available across the entirety of the UK and to clients in the USA during the 2020-2021 "lockdowns". Currently, in-person consultations and workshops are offered in London, and online sessions are available to clients across the globe. Whilst public performance analyses of physical performances are available only to those in London, performance analyses are offered to performances taking place elsewhere or viewable only by recording/livestream. What is a performance analysis? Where theatre/performance critic newspaper articles or journals, or theatre/performance review blogs, publish commercial reviews or promotional content, The Live Performance Mentor's performance analyses assess the integrity and efficacy of live performances and their origin texts/scores. Though public performance analyses are accessible to all my website visitors, analyses are intended to benefit the overall craft and creative awareness of the theatremakers and performance artists who request them. Performance analyses assess all aspects of the work, including acting and performing techniques and styles; choreography, dance and movement; story and plot development, structure and continuity; lighting, sound, set and costume design/operation; written texts; and more. They concentrate on what was original, poignant, articulate and coherent about the performances in study, what was not, and why. It is also common that they suggest alternative methods that could have avoided unwanted tensions, awkwardness, blandness or fallibility. Performance analyses, unlike commercial reviews, do not provide the reader with subjective responses to or general synopses of performances, nor do they intend to promote the creatives' work to readers or to celebrate the past, present and upcoming successes of these creatives. They are offered for dramaturgical, critical and pedagogic purposes only and consider solely the specific performance in study as it currently stands. Who writes The Live Performance Mentor's performance analyses? All performance analyses are written by Lee James Broadwood. Is the service free? Some services are free, yes! Otherwise, services are kept affordable. Please visit The Live Performance Mentor's site to see a full breakdown of services and their prices. Please note: All reviews are offered subject to the provision of a complimentary ticket to your performance, as per industry standards. The cost of a ticket to your performance cannot be deduced from the amount required for the release of a private review. To cover travel costs is not necessary. No VAT is applied on payment. Can I find The Live Performance Mentor on social media? The Live Performance Mentor is on social media, yes! @mytheatrementor across all platforms. Alternatively, you can follow Lee James Broadwood on all social media platforms, where public performance analyses are shared amongst other exciting content: @ljbroadwood Is it possible to be notified whenever a new public performance analysis is published? You can subscribe to this website to be notified whenever new content is released by Lee James Broadwood. Alternatively, you can follow The Live Performance Mentor on social media to discover public performance analyses and other exciting content: @mytheatrementor RETURN TO THE PERFORMANCE CRITIC

This mesmerising anthology is divided into four categories, each demonstrating the versatility and art of the poet: LOVE AND ROMANCE, MELANCHOLIA, FANTASY AND INTRIGUE, and DARK. This anthology provides the reader with powerful and visceral vignettes to celebrate the beauty of life and of imagination, and to appreciate our fragile safety from ubiquitous dangers and pains. Some poems are commemorations of the serene and the romantic, whose magic is often… This mesmerising anthology is divided into four categories, each demonstrating the versatility and art of the poet: LOVE AND ROMANCE, MELANCHOLIA, FANTASY AND INTRIGUE, and DARK. MORE INFO VIEW EXCERPTS ORDER NOW Only £15.99 - Ebook Version Coming Soon! About Book ABOUT THE BOOK The works included in this collection provide the reader with powerful and visceral vignettes to celebrate the beauty of life and of imagination and to appreciate our fragile safety from ubiquitous dangers and pains. Some poems are tributes to the serene and the romantic, whose magic is often overlooked in our fast-paced and sterile world; others sensationalise the horrors so commonplace to our homes and streets that their alienation reveals their truly harrowing and insidious reality. Fictional in nature, these poems are presented alongside eleven special poems dedicated to the poet’s beloveds. PARTIAL EXCERPTS Extracts 'Riverboat Island' Bobbing on a riverboat, hand in hand, heart in heart, for an island far from here, the bold lovebirds depart. Written in the ripples thin, vows eternal, vows of love. Constellations spell their names, behind the moonlit clouds above. 'Firefly' I know you hear me whilst I cry. Hush, my twinkling firefly. I am here, and all is fine, my gentle shimmer, my nightly shine. I know you watch me whilst I pray; worry not your wings away, for I am here, and all is fine. No need to fear, my butterfly. ‘I No Longer Love You’ 'Lauren Taylor' Sunset heart. I used to love you, but now, you’re my eclipse. I prise my soul from your spirit; my kisses, from your lips. Once bewitched by the glints within your eyes and homesick for your chest, I remove your impression from my pillow, and, from my heart, the rest. Violet blush, and silent lips, brunette hair, eyes opaline, hollow skin, and fading gaze, sapphires where carmine had been, Lauren Taylor, aged fourteen, found Bradley Flynn and in deep love fell, warmed by his dulcet passion-words, soothed by his voice of caramel. Extract: ‘Duchess’ Red wine turned to crimson for the powders in their fists, the dukes, ever gallant, must escort this duchess home tonight, in such a state as this. But the poor, little duke who should choose this victim, little does he know… our duchess is a murderess— as his luck should go… Extract: ‘Nectar’ Thawing nectar on my lips, let this not be our last kiss. Hold me tightly, close to you. Feel one rhythm beat again from two. Sugar sweeter once before, show me love awaits once more behind this kiss of honey blue. Soaked my skin in saccharin, glazed his love-yous with black lies, lulled my butterflies to sleep, and with blue nectar bound my eyes. 'Labour' Bleach-white walls, and freezing room. They gather around my bed. Electric shock. Jolt. Convulse. No life within it yet. Regulated ventilation. Coffin made of glass. Death-kissed body crimson. And the wait’s over— at last. CLICK HERE TO ORDER YOUR PERSONAL COPY TODAY SEE ALSO Click on a title below to see more information, excerpts, and purchasing options. THE EXPLOSA SERIES Visit My Bookstore

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