What Makes a Good Poem?
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I only ask. I've just received some poems back from the Rialto that I sent
some time ago. I've had 3 poems in the Rialto over the years, though they've
alw...
6:28pm Thursday evening special photo post!
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collected a box from the post office containing ten copies of the new,
smaller, £7.99 version of The Bird Room, out 19th of January, i think.
it's £2 smal...
TTA Press Advent Calendar
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Esteemed UK indie publisher TTA Press have been getting into the festive
spirit with a flash fiction advent calendar on their blog. I was away at the
10 ye...
Samuel Beckett Letters at Sothebys
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Letters from Samuel Beckett to artist Avigdor Arikha and his wife, Anne
Atik, are to be sold at auction today (link via Kevin Stevens):
A collection of m...
A 3:AM Xmas: Morvern Callar
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“He’d cut His throat with the knife. He’d near chopped off His hand with the
meat cleaver. He couldn’t object so I lit a Silk Cut. A sort of wave of
someth...
me talking tomorow in london
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*No, it's not bloody me. If you put all the current pictures of women
jumping up and looking happy end to end you could probably reach
Swindon...the Swind...
La Dictee
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There is no future, only the onslaught of time. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s
Dictee (NY: Tanam Pres, 1982) is an experiment in autobiography that blends
poetry ...
What is an object? (i)
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In his funeral oration for Jean Hyppolite (collected in Pocket Pantheon),
Badiou recalls that during his entrance examination for the Ecole Normale
Supérie...
Adverts of Warsaw
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Centrum
Much of Warszawa, from the snatches of it that I saw before my English
constitution rebelled against the ferocious cold, still largely looks like...
byron tossed
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Roger Deakin in Kyrgyztan– We were quartered in dormitories in the lodge,
which, being miles from anywhere, was lit by electricity generated by an
ingeniou...
The headless horsemen of the apocalypse
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[unfortunately couldn't make the black gathering of Hideous Gnosis, but I
was present in absentia. Here's my contribution...]
At its raspy start, black m...
Capitalist Realism after the crash
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I'm very grateful for all the kind words about Capitalist Realism,
especially the extended reviews from Woebot, Siobhan and Darren. As to
Matt's comments a...
The Two Lönnrots: new Josipovici story online
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Litro, the free monthly literary magazine distributed in London, has
published The Two Lönnrots, a new story by Gabriel Josipovici.
*As Borges lay dying h...
On bodies and capitalism
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A few weeks ago, Shelley at Read Red had an interesting post about Bodies by
Susie Orbach. She has mixed feelings about the book, some of her criticisms
ha...
Tao Lin . . .
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‘*A kind of themelessness . . .*’
Tao Lin speaking about his latest book (and his previous books). What is
noticeable in this interview is how in contr...
Kino Fist Salvagepunk Special!
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Kino Fist will be making a slight, last-minute return to tie in with the
Historical Materialism conference. Due to mine and Nina's current workload
may u...
Isosceles merkins
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Conrad W and I were walking back from somewhere. There was some water to
cross, a canal or a river. I crossed where it was narrow and I could jump
across. ...
The Paradoxes of Militant Dysphoria
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Many thanks to Mark Fisher for organising Wednesday's Militant Dysphoria
event at Goldsmiths, in conjunction with the release of Dominic Fox's
excellent ...
The Auckland Heresy
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Some fun-loving Anglicans in New Zealand have caused grave offence by erecting a billboard depicting a strained-looking Joseph in bed with a tight-lipped, he...
British Airways strikers
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It's not a fluke, but nor is it necessarily an omen. The overwhelming voteby BA workers (92%) for 12 days of strike action over Christmas, with a
turnout (8...
Global forum for stifling criticism of Israel
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I wouldn't know about this conference if it wasn't for a letter in today's Jerusalem
Post from Dr David Hirsh, former doyen of the Engage website:
Sir, - D...
If only it had been Blair…
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Silvio Berlusconi is a man who always enjoyed playing the pantomine villain,
revelling in the loathing and hatred of his opponents, viscerally enjoying
his...
A bit of local Kremlinology
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Well, that was a nice little musical interlude, but of course what many of
you come here for is the sectariana. “Since you’re on the ground in
Belfast,” th...
Fight for the Right to Work conference
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A conference of resistance and solidarity
Saturday 30 January,
Central Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester
11.30am-5pm
Fight for every job
Organise to stop t...
Even more Socialism 2009
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The Decline of California, Mike Davis and David Bacon Part 1 - Socialism
2009 from International Socialist on Vimeo.
The Decline of California, Mike Dav...
matthew eggleton
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Too soon, Matt. Way too soon. Words really don’t work here. So I rob a
little and edit a little from my favourites. First, Linton Kwesi Johnson: If
I woz a...
The al-Jazeera leak: how Blair benefits
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The leak of a document which allegedly reveals that Tony Blair persuaded
George Bush not to bomb al-Jazeera’s offices in Qatar last year raises some
inter...