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THE GREY SUIT INITIATIVE
The brilliant Grey Suit Issues 1-12 are now online! These are hour-long videos featuring poets, musicians, performance artists and film-makers. They were created in the 90s and are an essential record to live art and poetry in that era. Thanks … Continue reading
Posted in Grey Suit Editions, Performance Art, Poetry
Tagged Art & Literature, BFI, Grey Suit Editions, Improvised music., Performance Art, poets
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ART AND ITS DARK SIDE – INTRODUCTION
Art and its Dark Side – The Eight Rivers of Art A series of eight essays dealing with the ‘rivers of art’ – creative concerns which have the abiding power to preoccupy artists and writers, and which have always had … Continue reading
Posted in art, Essays, Key Links
Tagged art criticism, caprice, Grandeur, Grotesque, Immoralism, incompletion, literary criticism, philosophy of art, quietism, the picture within the picture, the uncanny
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David Wall, my boyhood friend, has passed away. A truly noble dancer.
Here he is as Lescaut.
Reading with Fawzi Karim
Back in 2013, Fawzi Karim and I had a new book of my translations of his poetry out from Carcanet – called Incomprehensible Lesson Click for more details and a poem from the book For reviews of Plague Lands and … Continue reading
ON THE NICETIES
I have spent the last two mornings thinking about a specific line or two of poetry. Did I choose a certain word simply because it rhymed with another? Does it matter if I did? Can the word in question be … Continue reading
MODERNIST MANQUÉ
‘And when upon your gentle breasts I lie (In due obedience to Nature’s laws) It is in truth iniquity on high That they should open out in chests of drawers… …Surrealist love! For God’s sake change your form Back to … Continue reading
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The Picture Within the Picture
A Talk I think there are serious drawbacks to terms like modernism and post-modernism. They seem too large to do much good. They’re generalisations; and they concern time rather than some way of making art. Modernism is like saying ‘nowism’. … Continue reading
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Grey Suit: Critique
This is a page on Face Book. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grey-Suit-Critique/414438731938538 It is a companion page to Grey Suit: Poem Stream http://www.facebook.com/pages/Grey-Suit-Poem-Stream/326838530684320 There is also Grey Suit: Performance and Film https://www.facebook.com/GreySuitPerformanceAndFilm Grey Suit also has a website
THE NEEDLE
THE NEEDLE I have been practising my needle giro. I want to get it perfectly. And so I practise and practise, like a boy determined to master a trick. It’s one of the most difficult things to do; a complex … Continue reading
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