Friday, July 03, 2020

An Even Dozen

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Apt that on this of all days, I have an invitation from MUBI to watch Herzog's Family Romance LLC   for free;  a story in which the moth...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

Spaniard, A Sulky Teen Going Through Stuff, is 14: AMA

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When I last blogged, it was Valentine's Day. Corona was everywhere else, soon there would be riots in Delhi and the Trump-Modi tamasha ...
Friday, February 14, 2020

Two by Edwin Morgan & The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award

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I remember some Scottish Valentine's Day short film from some years ago, where they went around asking people on the streets to recite ...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

John le Carré's Olof Palme Prize speech

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John le Carré doesn't do awards. Some years ago, he asked to be removed from the shortlist of the Man Booker International Prize   sayi...
Friday, January 31, 2020

First Month, First Post

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Even though it's the last day of the month in a year that might be the last of the decade or the first of a new one, I've done poor...
Tuesday, December 03, 2019

It's always nesting season for ants

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In the silver oak, the black kites have begun nesting for the second straight year, but in the trees around this place, the fire ants a...
Monday, December 02, 2019

The fictional self

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None of these thoughts are original but I've been thinking them for a few days and since I don't want this blog to be only a gravey...
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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Sean Bonney, Tom Raworth

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This morning I woke up to discover via Aaron Boothby that Sean Bonney had died. I knew his work only from the blog I've linked to, but...
Wednesday, July 03, 2019

Eleven: Absences

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Last year's silence on this day is a gap through which a decade could be allowed to slip. One year, in boarding school, we were on o...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Me Today in Popula

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It's unfair of me to announce the (month-old) arrival of Popula just when it's about to go behind a partial paywall, but there it ...