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Annual Music Review 2023: Year Of The Climb

This time last December I wasn’t up to writing much in the way of closing out the year. In many ways I think the only reason I was able to…

47 min readDec 22, 2023

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Annual Music Review 2023: Year Of The Climb

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Cal W. Stannard

Shard#12: Letter from Daddy

I love you in your waking Bleary yet so anew Your eyes adjusting as they might That piercing brand new blue

2 min readAug 15, 2023

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Shard#12: Letter from Daddy

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Cal W. Stannard

Halfway Home: The Best Songs of 2023 So Far

Six months ago I wrote that “in 2022 I found myself getting really fixated on sounds and lyrics and needing to hear them over and over…

9 min readJun 23, 2023

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Halfway Home: The Best Songs of 2023 So Far

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Cal W. Stannard

Shard#16: Wreck My Car

I took out a loan and bought us a car The first either of us had owned It would be the chariot for our child We’d carry her gently every…

2 min readApr 27, 2023

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Shard#16: Wreck My Car

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Cal W. Stannard

Shard#14: BOTH

My life is a rocket ship, flying through space Unmanned, low power, intergalactic waste Hurtling silently through the yawning vacuum…

2 min readMar 29, 2023

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Shard#14: BOTH

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Cal W. Stannard

Music Review 2022: The Last Year

Previous years’ write-ups have begun with me allowing myself the indulgence of commenting on the year itself — what’s happened in wider…

36 min readJan 10, 2023

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Music Review 2022: The Last Year

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Cal W. Stannard

Shard#11: keep my wife’s name out your f***ing prayers

None of the advice is good Will I do more damage than my shadow would Should have finished mine before starting hers I’ve let us all down

2 min readNov 21, 2022

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Shard#11: keep my wife’s name out your f***ing prayers

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Cal W. Stannard

Shard#8: do you wanna be in love

Do you wanna be in love again in love again with me ‘cos every time I look at you I know what I want to be

1 min readJul 14, 2022

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Shard#8: do you wanna be in love

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Cal W. Stannard

Shards#5-6: Terra Ignota

My lockdown stretches on without end I wake, break the foil, eat what’s inside like it’s advent Thinking back to when they worked, was a…

2 min readJul 3, 2022

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Shards#5-6: Terra Ignota

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Cal W. Stannard

Shard#7: Depression gown

I keep an old depression gown, slip it on from time to time It warms me in the winter, then shades me from the shine It smells a little…

2 min readMar 15, 2022

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Shard#7: Depression gown

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Cal W. Stannard

Cal W. Stannard

I write short stories, lyrics without songs, talk about music and mental health and share photography. “I speak that ugly elegant”

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