The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #5)
another doris lessing quintet concludes
another doris lessing quintet concludes
we cannot equate hope with idiocy and expect to ever be happy
an extensive discussion re the weighty themes raised by this book
if you’re not reading Kobek you’re not reading
contemporary fiction on the last quarter of the 20th century
breathtaking book on death
an excellent book
some notes on a book of notes about lighthouses
intellectual poems that don’t become impersonal
broken sleep’s second annual anthology
objectively brilliant, yes, but not not not so good for me?
“People eat what they can. They love what can love them back.”
Today we’re (I’m) looking at another poetry magazine. I’m not quite sure if this one is a magazine or ifContinue Reading
is “art writing” poetry? / is “poetry” art writing?
some old vids of *your* favourite mentally ill poet-blogger
some great love poetry surrounded by trepidatious discussion of someone else’s illness
realising i read poetry looking for poets, not poems
latest chapbook from one of my favourite writers
you been doing all this dope [blogging] / You ain’t had a chance to show ’em what time it is
a masterpiece of contemporary sonnetteering
a gorgeous chapbook kicks off POETRY MONTH
exclusive look at a new poetry film by scott manley hadley!
a middle class british heterosexual Howl
Alan Burns’ underwhelming follow-up to Europe After The Rain
the limits + importance of language (cw: suicide ideation)
an excellent novel (& a guest cat in the pic!!!)
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
brief comments on a perfect novel
a failure of intent
pacy thriller; terrible bookstore; hot summer heat
slow fiction with relentless structure
“the classic coming of age novel… for women”
great essay on the end of the world in film & lit
two new books from Jarett Kobek about CRIME CRIME CRIME
a big book about mushrooms that are magic (not magic mushrooms)
an excellent – near flawless – novel
james baldwin is great; vaccines are also great
my domestic holiday begins with unexpected news; Lawrence eviscerates Xianity
a week off work begins with a great contemporary novel
an excellent novel; in footnotes my concluding thoughts on the TV series The Affair
read some terrible books that failed to distract me from anything
if u see a dead racoon at the side of the road
re-reading Joan Didion for the first time in my life
powerful academic text on the impossibility of decolonisation within capitalistic structures
on ian flemming, jackie kerouac, karlo knausgaard
very “literary fiction” literary fiction about WW2 non-Nazi racism
I’ve been ignoring my depressive relapse by studying AIDS