POETRY MONTH: Waiting Room by Poppy Cockburn
powerful, direct, dignified poems
powerful, direct, dignified poems
a beautiful novel about the emptiness at the heart of life
on ethics and our species’ lack of them
read some great fiction for the first time in a while; still bored bored bored tho boohoo
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
rare writing depicting middle class rootlessness not as tragedy
forget the infamously sleazy page-and-a-half and enjoy!
who wouldn’t beg for a little more life?
it’s my 30th birthday
talking about my bald head and my sufficient pubes to camera
Find out what Scott Manley Hadley has been reading and doing
What does it mean to turn life into art?
A book that describes itself as “Ian Fleming meets Rimbaud”
My latest review over at Open Pen discusses the point of fiction…
If Greer – who doesn’t believe in non-binary genders – is correct, then I am a woman.
Max Porter Works In Publishing
an accurate depiction of the lust and boredom that threatens to overwhelm all of us who aren’t pious, delusional, fuckheads
The ‘Godfather of Rap’ offers a rose-tinted memoir.
Love is not the preserve of the randy, love is not just something that happens with pants off or about to be off…
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Please watch my new short film where, a la B. S. Johnson, I openly discuss the way I see theContinue Reading