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...
Blog Archive
Links: Culture
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6:28pm Thursday evening special photo post! - 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...
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TTA Press Advent Calendar - 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...
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Samuel Beckett Letters at Sothebys - 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...
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A 3:AM Xmas: Morvern Callar - “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...
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me talking tomorow in london - *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...
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La Dictee - 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 ...
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What is an object? (i) - In his funeral oration for Jean Hyppolite (collected in Pocket Pantheon), Badiou recalls that during his entrance examination for the Ecole Normale Supérie...
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Lethem & McCarthy in London - *Jonathan Lethem* and *Tom McCarthy* at the *London Review Bookshop* on *7 January*.
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Adverts of Warsaw - 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...
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the 'tao lin photoshop self-portrait w/ "1983 - ????" commentary' shirt - is now available in the i am carles store for $19, to discuss this or other i am carles products go here photos showcasing your creativity re 'feeding ta...
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byron tossed - 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...
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The headless horsemen of the apocalypse - [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...
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Capitalist Realism after the crash - 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...
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The Two Lönnrots: new Josipovici story online - 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...
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On bodies and capitalism - 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...
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Tao Lin . . . - ‘*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...
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The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2 - Simon Reynolds is one of the most recognizable music critics around. His work reached a peak with the publication of Rip It Up and Start Again, a timely ex...
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Kino Fist Salvagepunk Special! - 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...
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Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Raoul Vaneigem - Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Raoul Vaneigem over at Info Exchange : HUO: Today, more than forty years after May ‘68, how do you feel life and ...
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I’m taking part in a live online book group discussion... - I’m taking part in a live online book group discussion of The Raw Shark Texts over on the readitswapit.co.uk forums on the 9th November at 8pm GMT. I’ll ...
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Isosceles merkins - 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. ...
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The Paradoxes of Militant Dysphoria - Many thanks to Mark Fisher for organising Wednesday's Militant Dysphoria event at Goldsmiths, in conjunction with the release of Dominic Fox's excellent ...
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Terminus - Dead Iraqis: Selected Short Stories of Ellis Sharp Reviewed here Details here ...
Links: Politics
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The Auckland Heresy - 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...
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British government covering for Livni – so much for the “war on terror” - The British government’s panic over the recent warrant issued by a British magistrate’s court for the arrest of former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni...
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British Airways strikers - 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...
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Global forum for stifling criticism of Israel - 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...
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If only it had been Blair… - Silvio Berlusconi is a man who always enjoyed playing the pantomine villain, revelling in the loathing and hatred of his opponents, viscerally enjoying his...
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A bit of local Kremlinology - 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...
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Fight for the Right to Work conference - 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...
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Even more Socialism 2009 - The Decline of California, Mike Davis and David Bacon Part 1 - Socialism 2009 from International Socialist on Vimeo. The Decline of California, Mike Dav...
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matthew eggleton - 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...
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The al-Jazeera leak: how Blair benefits - 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...
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