a sporadic and brief instance of critical fiction
There is no primal scream without the sun, the deep crevice of the earth, Heraclitus’ flowing waters. The river runs its course: “We step and do not step into the same river, we are and we are not”. More...
Ryszard Kapuscinski – Journalist
Much controversy has surrounded a new biography of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932-2007) which alleges that huge swathes of his reportage were made-up. Defences have…
More...Interlude – On the Price and Place of Manuscripts
I have recently been indulging in fantasies about all the books I might be able to order on line and have delivered to my door,…
More...Prose Poets
As a frustrated poet myself, I am always intrigued to see when famous writers of prose fiction choose to explore the verse form, and perhaps one of the most surprising transitions from one medium to the other is seen in the work of Ernest Hemingway. More...
Poetics of Silence II: “The Story of Noise and Silence”
There is a story in the selected writings of Subcomandante Marcos, spokesperson for the Zapatistas (the indigenous revolutionary movement in the Chiapas mountains…
More...The Goose with the Golden Grammar
We tend to assume that Aesop's fables, ancient as they are, are static, their meanings fixed in place through generations of recitation, but like all linguistic artefacts they mutate and change – dependent upon their translation, of course, but mostly upon the momentary circumstance of their use. More...
Swedenborg’s Oven: Head number Four – Atomic Books in Open Fields
In late April I’ll be performing at Open Fields: my contribution will taste something like this:
A theoretically poetic filmic performance for many voices.…
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