Triumph of the Now is 10! lol whoops
ten years ago i started a blog instead of killing myself
Category: Musings
2022 REVIEW: FOR ME, IT WAS MIXED
that wasn’t very good for me
POETRY MONTH: text redacted from 2017 SAFE MODE by Sam Riviere blog post
redacted text from septy ’17
POETRY MONTH: scott manley hadley readings round up
some old vids of *your* favourite mentally ill poet-blogger
POETRY MONTH: poetry reviews from the vaults
before a month of all new all poetry reviews, check out a selection from the TotN vaults!
POETRY MONTH: poetry film premiere
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
Penguin Classics Marvel Collection: Black Panther by various
are superheroes for superzeroes?
found text – ‘sutcliffe rumours’ – Oct 1, 2013
found text from 2013 about serial killer rumours
found text: note from 17-04-2010
a somewhat prescient note i found from 2010 (picture from then, obvs)
Around the World in Seventy-Two Days and Other Writings by Nellie Bly
scott reads a collection of writing from a trailblazing lady gonzo journalist!
Toilets at the Venice Biennale
water, water, everywhere and not a spot to piss
Not Really A Review of Not Really A Year
my year was deathly dull, which in 2020 counts as a good year
South and West by Joan Didion
3 lines on joan didion and 1000 words on my terrible mental health lol
Noted Poet Andrew McMillan enjoys the pleasure of regret
“it’s great”, he tweeted
In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje
i read a great Toronto novel and recall summer 2019 when I worked at lux events
The Unauthorised Biography of Ezra Maas by Daniel James
the emotional cost of working in high end catering
Scott Manley Hadley’s More Triumphant 2018
well i had a good year
Found Diary Entry from April 17th, 2010
bizarre note to self from 2010
Bad Boy Poet: LIVE TONIGHT IN DALSTON
BOOK LAUNCH TONIGHT NOVEMBER 14TH 2018
Bad Boy Poet: Intimate & Al Fresco
reading some poems in the Spanish desert…
Birthday Post: 30 Things I’ve Done, 30 Things I Haven’t
it’s my 30th birthday
Sobriety As Taboo – Scott Manley Hadley
Originally posted on Milk + Beans:
Every time I make it sober to the end of the day, I feel like I’ve…
The Sauna Series — Scott Manley Hadley — minor literature[s]
Scott Manley Hadley is a literary blogger and poet. Renowned for his candid and tongue-in-cheek reviewing style he’s also aContinue Reading
Philosophical Toys by Susana Medina
sad man scotty writes about being sad
#BadBoyPoet Spotify Playlist
feelin stressed so made a playlist
Scott In A Podcast on His Poetry
hear my voice, reacquaint yourselves with my fallibility
Scott Manley Hadley ON THE BBC
talking about my bald head and my sufficient pubes to camera
Eulogy for Philip Hadley
the speech i read at my grandfather’s funeral
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
On Not Being Suicidal Anymore
I nearly get hit by a speeding car and realise I want to LIVE
#Breakdown: What happened to the blogging?
I have mental health problems
On Cutting Down the Levity [from 2015]
an unpublished, unfinished post about antidepressants from 2015
Ensayo en Español: La vida de B. S. Johnson
Quieres informática biográfica sobre B. S. Johnson?
In Love With HS2 & Awards Excitement
new article & award attention elsewhere
On Urinals
How many men must a man urinate in front of before you can call him a man?
in print alert / in paper print / paper print alert / in paper alert
read all about bs johnson – like this blog but in a book
Music act SOLID BALD performs ‘SexBomb’
Life means nothing. So you may as well sing:
Fantastic Mr Fox by Roald Dahl
Fantastic Mr Fox is an ode to adventure capitalism. My life is an ode to wine.
Birthday Post: 6,500 Words on Skyfall
It’s my birthday and I’ll write 6,500 words on Skyfall if I want to
lst nite i drmt tht smbdy lvd me
someone has written about me
R u a gay or a racist???
A bald head looks like the tip of an erect penis without the external urethral meatus.
Baldness Article #2
Mr Hip-Scott himself is back on the HuffPo
kill yourself, you hipster faggot
some anonymous little merican sent poppa some h8 mail and poppa aint havin none of it
Spill Simmer Falter Wither by Sara Baume
I don’t know where this book came from. I know I bought it, I’m pretty certain I went out ofContinue Reading
Leviathan or, The Whale by Philip Hoare
Whales. What are they? Who are they? And why did humans stop killing them just before their extinction was finallyContinue Reading
The Sugar Syndrome by Lucy Prebble
I haven’t read a play for a while. I used to read plays all the time, it was one ofContinue Reading
Distracted Holiday Book Review: The Fields by Kevin Maher and Season One of Game of Thrones
Kevin Maher’s The Fields is a hilarious, moving and impressively broad coming of age novel set (mostly in Dublin) inContinue Reading
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