-
Recent Posts
Categories
Archives
-
Join 749 other subscribers
Meta
Monthly Archives: July 2018
APPENDICES to THE STEP IS THE FOOT
Appendices to The Step is the Foot. (plus “Corrections” at the foot of this post) Appendix 1 The Pendulum Plot of Philoctetes by Sophocles Appendix 2 Outback Research Trip Appendix 3: TRANSLATION: A QUERY Appendix 4: Developing the madrigal Appendix 5: … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Grey Suit Editions
1 Comment
Anthony Howell and his Disenchanted Sow
Anthony Howell and his Disenchanted Sow They do say never wrestle with a pig, you both get filthy. So, instead, strip naked on a busy Belfast street, assume the crouch of a submissive mate – porcine-cubic, promising – to … Continue reading
Posted in Performance Art, Poetry
Tagged Anthony Howell, Fix Festival Belfast, Keith Hutson, Live art, Performance Art, Performance Art Archive, pigs
Leave a comment
Penda’s Fen
Just watched David Rudkin/Alan Clarke’s film Penda’s Fen. Bizarre, terrifying masterpiece. Thankyou Caroline Ffrench Blake for lending me the DVD. Alan Price has a review of the film in the Pelicanist. Set in the Cotswold Hills.
In Defence of Obscenity
Interesting post here In Defense of Obscenity
Posted in Essays, Poetry
Tagged art, Catullus, erotic art, obscenity, Roman porn poetry
Leave a comment
Shame and Shamelessness
My lecture on Freud, Gide and Immoralism now published by the Fortnightly Review. First given at the 2018 Conference on Poetry and Psychoanalysis. Thanks to Catherine Humble, Susy Lansman and Kathryn Maris for organising this brilliant event.
Posted in Essays
Tagged Andre Gide, Freud, Immoralism, James Hogg, psychoanalysis, Robert Browning
Leave a comment