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Category Archives: xenochronicity
Equine or Ox?
The equinox has arrived at just the right time for this old Jungian loon to contemplate how the research leave is going, and lay out a few impulses as though they were plans. Essentially, the task is to set aside … Continue reading
Creative Procrastination
What if, in some measurable sense, those tasks and duties we describe as soul-destroying actually did degrade our spirit? Of course they do, you might respond – though there’s no such thing as the soul, you might then continue. Hold … Continue reading
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‘Ghost’ in Novi Sad (& Unique Mother Tongue)
Here’s a recording some kind person made of me reading the pome ‘Ghost’ in the Novi Sad Festival back in 2008. It was very well received, but I’ve forgotten who sent me this, so thanks and apologies! Listen to beyond … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Croft, Arc Publications, Arjen Duincker, Arthur Sze, Øyvind Berg, Bernhard Widder, Claudia Keelan, Dan Coman, Durres, Elma van Haren, Emran Salahi, Erik Lindner, Georgi Gospodinov, Helene Gelens, Ide Hintze, Kristin Dimitrova, Linda France, Mark Robinson, Murray Edmond, Nadya Radulova, Novi Sad Festival, Odia Ofeimun, Smokestack Books, Thomas Wohlfart, Tone Hødnebø, VBV, Yang Lian
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The Three Dumb Things
Amid the steady pressures from others that sum up the day of a committed akratic (someone whose will and sense of self-worth is so pathetically weak they spend all their time trying to satisfy those therefore incessant demands) there remains … Continue reading
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mirror skoda manoeuvre
I was heading for the car having got out of the habit of taking it (the car) to work and therefore uncertain as to whether it would still be there (it was parked on the same street where I’d had … Continue reading
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hidden, hodden, held
I was told a good Polish proverb the other day: ‘Work loves stupid people’ (I’ll have to check the original which I vaguely remember now as ‘rabota lyuby gloopy loody’ which sounds simultaneously marvellously onomatopoeic and a little too Russian). Pinned to schedules as the abdomen … Continue reading
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Tagged Edwin Morgan, Lang Jack, Nabokov, TS Eliot Prize, Wallace Stevens
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parallel blll
I’ve been caught up in the act of returning for more than a month now — first from Jerusalem and then from Rome. Both places loom large for most of the psyches that orbit the Mediterranean, and I found them totally engrossing, excitingly easy to … Continue reading
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xenochronicity
As Mark Smith, the original Post-Nearly Man, asks, ‘Moderninity, what is it?’ Xenochronicity is a term derived from two sources – Zappa’s xenochrony and Jung’s synchronicity. Definitions, gentlemen, please: ‘In this technique, various tracks from unrelated sources are randomly synchronized with each … Continue reading
blog begins at spectral command
At 3.15 Friday morning I was woken from a fairly successful attempt at drunken slumber by the smoke alarms going off in our house. No, there was no fire, but as our house is a former guiding lighthouse perched above … Continue reading
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