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Phorgotography, 5
Next near-subliminal Facebook flashcard was from Depths of Lockdown. This was the same image I’d picked out to illustrate a point about Creative Procrastination in my piece for NCLA’s New Defences of Poetry, a website-that-shoulda-been-a-book edited by David O’Hanlon-Alexandra, so … Continue reading
Phorgotography, 4
Continuing the theme of images randomly thrown up by Facebook that then vanish before I’ve finished my usual arduous Working-Out-Of-Thinks, this was from the day of the Russian invasion back in February. The image itself was more than a decade … Continue reading
Posted in current emanations, xenochronicity
Tagged Crimea, General Jumbo, Gladston's, Liz Truss, Margaret Thatcher, North Shields, Russia, Tanks, The Beano, The Provisional, Ukraine, xenochronicity
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Micro-reviews (2): Desperate Fishwives
Here’s another enthusiastic response to being asked to read a book, this time one by the very fine Lindsay MacGregor, who first studied then taught at Dundee Uni, who hosts the Ladybank Platform readings, is part of StAnza’s constellation of … Continue reading
Imagining Imagined Spaces
This review of a book of essays exploring the range of forms possible within creative critical thinking was supposed to appear in a briefer form sometime last year but, for whatever reason, did not. It acts as a sort of … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Ronnie Mackintosh, Creative Criticism, Creative Writing, Duncan MacLean, Dundee, Dundee University, Gail Low, Glenn Gould, Kengo Kuma, Kenny Taylor, Kirsty Gunn, Lorens Holm, Meaghan Delahunt, Montaigne, Nine Arches Press, Patrick Geddes, Paul Noble, Philip Lopate, Susan Nickalls, The Idea of North, The V&A, The Voyage Out, Zen, Zenimalism
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The Great Slowing Down versus Poet MacDiarmid (3)
The interiorising impulse is a normal part of most writers’ cycle of composition and publication, but it became stronger for me with my father’s death, after which I spent a couple of years darting off to any far-off place that … Continue reading
A The Poetry Review review
So complete is the lacuna created by the pandemic that, when it comes to the microcosm of poetry, entire books were swallowed up by it like Keaton’s famous shot in The General of the titular train steaming off the blown-up … Continue reading
The Great Slowing Down versus Poet MacDiarmid (2)
So, as I think I was saying, the GSD equals a reluctance to complete these many waiting posts which isn’t entirely motivated by kindness to the passing reader. It has the air of a necessary recalibration, but the effect of … Continue reading
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Tagged Fernando Pessoa, H.G. Wells, Hugh MacDiarmid, Iggy Pop, Jean Cocteau, Robert Graves
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Phorgotography, 3
vii this is enough(This is another instance of Facebook popping up a few photos at random, me finding myself responding more thoughtfully to them than Ι’d expected – ie being a bit floored by the coincidence – only not to … Continue reading
Phorgotography, 2
iv mitherboardMitherboard imagery: street I grew up in till I was 6 (Peddie), but no the richt bit o it – we bided further up on the right. Street roond the corner whaur thon shop is (Corso) is whaur meh … Continue reading
Phorgotography, 1
Our relationship with the photograph has changed so much over the last twenty years that the few black and white or kodachrome or instamatic images of older folks’ childhoods (and of their progenitors’ entire lives) have taken on the austerity … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne Stevenson, Broughty Ferry, Constantinople, Crete, Cutlery, Durham, Lockdown, North Shields, Nostalgia, Odysseus, Paskha, Photography, Psarasoupa, Slomadicity, Spolia, St Mark’s, The Black Death, The Fourth Crusade, The Lady of the Lake, The Lit & Phil, Venice
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