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Keaton, Carrington, Milligan: 1
(I seem to have spent forever over this next set of posts, or, rather, not so much over as hovering – or havering – nearby. Many other duties, including a talk on one of the poets mentioned below, W.S. Graham, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arc Publications, Buster Keaton, DCA, Dundee, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Little Nemo, Neil Brand, Poet & Critic, Reverend Thomas Dick, Rudi Blesh, Spike Milligan, Steamboat Bill Jr, Teresa Griffiths, The House of Fear, The Testament of the Reverend Thomas Dick, Verity Maidlow, W.S. Graham, Winsor McCoy
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Dial the New Unsettlement!
3 It is as an opposition to this mindset that I welcome, rejoice in, and kick myself for missing, the construction and demolition of the cardboard Royal Arch by Claire Dow and Olivier Grossetete. Such fond, culturally-informed and – yes … Continue reading
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Tagged Claire Dow, Dadaism, Dundee, Dundee University, Erin Catriona Farley, Geddes Institute, George Wyllie, Grayson Perry, Ivor Cutler, Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Mark Waldron, Monty Python, Olivier Grossetete, Sir Patrick Geddes, Situationism, The Overgate, Whitfield, William McGonagall
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Dark Whimsy
(A post that started months ago as I realised my creative attention had moved for the time being toward something between the poem and the prose poem. These pieces arose from my engagement with social media rather than the conventional … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruno Schulz, Charlie Kaufman, Clark Ashton Smith, David Bowie, Edward Lear, Franz Kafka, George Herriman, H.P. Lovecraft, Haruki Murakami, Hayao Miyazaki, Ivor Cutler, James Finlayson, Jan Svankmajer, Jim Woodring, John Ashbery, Krazy Kat, Lewis Carroll, Michal Ajvaz, Michel Gondry, Monty Python and The Goodies, Mood Indigo, Morrissey, Noel Coward, Oscar Wilde, Pete and Dud (and Derek and Clive), Philip Guston, Robert Crumb, Spike Milligan, The Flaming Carrot, The Goons, The Simpsons, The Wipers Times, Tim Burton, Wes Anderson
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The Academy of Errors?
News of the death of the very playful, very questioning ‘scul?tor’ George Wylie has made me think again about this wry, almost Socratic strain in the Scottish mind, as evidenced by figures as diverse as Wylie himself, Ivor Cutler, Chic … Continue reading
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Tagged Chic Murray, George Wylie, Ivor Cutler, MIB, Montaigne, Norman MacCaig, R.D. Laing, Toy Story, Vincent D'Onofrio
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