New Penguin Parallel Text Short Stories In Spanish ed. John R. King
reading some Spanish prose… right next to a translation…
Category: Book Review
Against Nature (A Rebours) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
infamous for the wrong reasons…
Twenty-Six Factitions by Erik Kennedy
Scott Manley Hadley on the poetry scene
Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller
some really gorgeous prose
Hasard Objectif by Joanna Walsh
love love love love love… and books
Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
some inappropriate teenage nostalgia
Twenty Love Poems & A Song of Despair by Pablo Neruda
it’s not love if u pretend they don’t shit
My Friend Dahmer by Derf Backderf
a dark, engaging, affecting read
The Man In The High Castle by Philip K. Dick
pleasantly surprised by what I expected to be trash
Drunken Baker by Barney Farmer
the bottle salves but doesn’t heal
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
gorgeous prose, important content
Philosophical Toys by Susana Medina
sad man scotty writes about being sad
Arkady by Patrick Langley
hipster dystopia / hipstopia / better than that sounds
Scott Manley Hadley Reads Some Poems
listen and or watch me read some poems (or do neither)
Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity by Ella Frears
good, serious, accessible poems
Notes on Post-Conceptual Poetry by Felix Bernstein
a book too clever for me, but still engaging
Sunshine by Melissa Lee-Houghton
this is impressive, i am depressive
Sad Farsi Love Poem by Abi Andrews
an effective exploration of white saviour complex
Kill All Normies by Angela Nagle
basically why the baddies are winning atm
Design as Art by Bruno Munari
i read a book that’s aged badly and reflect on bad times
Takeaway by Tommy Hazard
the London Ambulance service gets the Morbid Books treatment
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé by Morgan Parker
v good poems tho a v poor blog post
The Moor by Sam Haysom
I am bamboozled by supernatural horror
Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story by D. T. Max
David Foster Wallace was a prick.
Notes on ‘Camp’ by Susan Sontag
my past changes shape as my future brightens
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
very booker prize winnery booker prize winner
Death the Barber by William Carlos Williams
so much depends upon triumphofthenow.com
An American Dream by Norman Mailer
fun frothy men’s fiction
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
in a world without books, why can everybody read???
Colonel Sun by Kingsley Amis
i shouldn’t have read this, but I did
Who Is Mary Sue? by Sophie Collins
more tasty contemporary poetry
Nowhere to go but back again by Dizz Tate
short blog on a goldsmiths short
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
essential reading, especially if you’re a racist
Scott In A Podcast on His Poetry
hear my voice, reacquaint yourselves with my fallibility
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
a deluge of hand jobs and suicides cannot save this
The Numbers by Christopher Burns
“ok mr burns, what’s ur first name” “i dont know”
Jackdaws by Neil Campbell
a return to prose and a whine about violence
Pamper Me To Hell & Back by Hera Lindsay Bird
love love love love love love love
Being With Me Will Help You Learn by Thomas McColl
slowly, book by book, i realise what i like
The Foreign Passion / La Pasión Extranjera by Cristian Aliaga
very very good Argentine poems
Through your blood by Toby Campion
i went to a poetry open mic night
The Fat Black Woman’s Poems by Grace Nichols
finally some really bloody good poems
The Commons by Stephen Collis
why are poets so obsessed with outside?
The Observances by Kate Miller
is “good” poetry bad and “bad” poetry “good”?
Nearly 30 by Joe Woodhouse
bienvenido a la triumphofthenow.com poetry season 2018
Paymon’s Trio by Colette de Curzon
a short story chapbook that’s fine, no more, no less
My Brother’s Husband by Gengoroh Tagame
a cracking manga
Bear by Marian Engel
simply the bestial
Bluets by Maggie Nelson
im blue abadadee abadie
