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Anja Konig -Thoughts of an Unprofessional Poet
This article by Anja Konig expresses a lot of my own misgivings about poetry as a competing profession.
TOUGHS
My new article on toughs in literature is now published by the Fortnightly review. Featuring a grumpy old git’s thoughts on what we can and what we cannot say, as well as the writing of Stewart Home, Mr Fish, Dana … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, FICTION, Poetry
Tagged Catherine Millet, censorship, Dana Gillespie, Elizabeth Jenkins, Holly Howitt, Joelle Taylor, Mr Fish, Stewart Home, Takako Arai, Tom Bland
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Georges Braque: The Poetry of Things
Click here for my review of Georges Braque’s still lives. Bernard Jacobson Gallery, winter 21/22 Discussing the medium itself, together with my view of who might be the most significant still life artists of the 20th century. Braque is certainly … Continue reading
Posted in art, Essays
Tagged Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Georges Braque, Jane Freilicher, Morandi, painting, Pierre Reverdy, Still life, William Nicholson
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The Hump-Backed Bridge
THE HUMP-BACKED BRIDGE I was just six years old. My mother dropped me off at school in Caversham, and then I found my own way home by boarding the bus near Saint Peter’s Hill that would take me to its … Continue reading
Purgatory
In Dante’s Comedy, each punishment is a contrapasso, a symbolic instance of poetic justice, and Purgatory seemed an appropriate place to be, last winter. So here, in the Fortnightly Review are my thoughts about reading Purgatory.
Grey Suit Editions – List of Publications
New books in 2021 List of Publications 1 List of Publications 2 List of publications 3 (Miscellaneous) Our video catalogue from the nineties These links provide a tour of Grey Suit. The project began as a video magazine for performance … Continue reading
Posted in art, Dance, Essays, FICTION, Grey Suit Editions, Poetry
Tagged Grey Suit Editions UK, Performance Art, poetry
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‘Ceasefire’ and ‘The Cross of Carl’
Last night I watched “Ceasefire” (Cessez-le-feu) directed by Emmanuel Courcol, starring Romain Duris, Celine Sallete and Gregory Gadebois. This French film explores the lives of French soldiers traumatised by bombardment in the trenches of Verdun. Those few who returned ostensibly … Continue reading
Posted in Essays, Grey Suit Editions, Uncategorized
Tagged Ceasefire, Emmanuel Courcol, Norman Mailer, The Cross of Carl, The Great War, Walter Owen, Wilfred Owen, WW1
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On ‘Freeing Up’.
Click On Freeing Up for my essay in THE FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW on four amazing poets – Julian Stannard, Fleur Adcock, Kazuko Shiraishi and Robert Creeley.
Posted in Essays, Poetry
Tagged Fleur Adcock, Julian Stannard, Kazuko Shiraishi, poetry, Robert Creeley
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Psycho-painting and what you see in it
Psycho-Painting slideshow “Look at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colours. If you have to invent some scene, you can see there resemblances to a number of landscapes, adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, … Continue reading
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Tagged Aldous Huxley, Clement Greenberg, Henri Michaux, Jackson Pollock, Leonardo da Vinci, psycho-art, Wollheim
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