The Four Gated City by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #5)
another doris lessing quintet concludes
Tag: london
I, Nerd by Max Sydney Smith
another nice book review descends into dissociated left-wing raving
You Ruin It When You Talk by Sarah Manvel
very funny novelette from hipstertopia’s Open Pen
I Is Another by Jon Fosse (Septology III – V)
an excellent novel (& a guest cat in the pic!!!)
a proper marriage by Doris Lessing (Children of Violence #2)
lessing’s children of violence continues to be excellent unlike my mood
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula le Guin
reading more earthsea, hating everything else
Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
posh ominous australian fiction
The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda by Ishmael Reed
during a brief solo trip to Montreal, scott reads a blistering take-down of the musical Hamilton and makes a personal announcement
Sula by Toni Morrison
a beautiful novel about the emptiness at the heart of life
Good Morning, Midnight by Jean Rhys
excellent mid-life crisis novel
John Barleycorn by Jack London
1914 memoir about alcoholism that oozes big denial
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
welsh poetry, often wonderful, sometimes dry
How The Dead Dream by Lydia Millet
i whinge about unexpected canadian expenses and read a solid novel
A Wizard Of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin
i found a book in the street
Bad Boy Poet: LIVE IN DALSTON
Scott Manley Hadley launches Bad Boy Poet.
La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman
read good book, do bad exercise
Selected Poems by Federico García Lorca
why I owned but didn’t read this book for five years (anger, depression)
Arkady by Patrick Langley
hipster dystopia / hipstopia / better than that sounds
Takeaway by Tommy Hazard
the London Ambulance service gets the Morbid Books treatment
Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
essential reading, especially if you’re a racist
Nearly 30 by Joe Woodhouse
bienvenido a la triumphofthenow.com poetry season 2018
Birthday Literary Suicide Tour
So I walk on towards deaths (plural) in the cooling twilight
#TotNTV: Setting Up A Literary Magazine
Sean Preston chats Open Pen.
#TotNTV: London
live by the river
#TotNTV: England
ingerlaaaand, ingerlaaaaand, ingerland ingerland naaa naaa
Hold Tight by Jeffrey Boakye
i’m looking tired but feeling great
On Not Being Suicidal Anymore
I nearly get hit by a speeding car and realise I want to LIVE
Triumph of the Now TV
home of the lo-fi magazine web series
Dysfunctional Males by Fernando Sdrigotti
Men are disgusting.
The Bricks That Built the Houses by Kate Tempest
The publishing industry has fucked over Kate Tempest.
Radar Road: The Best of On Impulse by Nath Jones
A short story collection, and my first experience of an eBook.
The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
Living in the city is bad for the soul
on the beach from fat man on a beach
Visiting the Llyn Peninsula in North Wales.
Martin John by Anakana Schofield
I’ve accidentally grown a goatee and as a result of this I now look like a sex pervert*. This wasContinue Reading
Jo the Witch Vet by Joanne Sadler
OK, so maybe I’m not the target demographic, but Jo the Witch Vet by Joanne Sadler is one of theContinue Reading
Midland: A Novel Out of Time by Honor Gavin
midlands novel and a road trip into childhood
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
Viper Wine by Hermione Eyre
I often state that me taking more than a week to read anything, irrelevant of size, is a sign thatContinue Reading
Green Girl by Kate Zambreno
I have read Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl for my book club, and will now write a review in two parts.Continue Reading
Jerusalem the Golden by Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble is not a novelist I’ve read before. To be honest, I’m mainly aware of her for being withinContinue Reading
The Book of Dave by Will Self
Hello. Happy New Year etc. I finally got around to reading Will Self’s The Book of Dave after carrying theContinue Reading
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac
Last Summer, whilst twatpacking* around the Mediterranean, Tunisair lost my backpack between Casablanca and Tunis. Though it contained nothing ofContinue Reading
Sectioned: A Life Interrupted by John O’Donoghue
Sectioned: A Life Interrupted is a recent memoir by John O’Donoghue, a man who spent his teens and twentiesContinue Reading
On Coming Out As A Catholic
I’ve decided that from now on I am going to self-identify as a Catholic. A couple of days ago IContinue Reading
On The Dotted Line: Signatures, Sobriety*, Schoolbooks & Shearing
So, I’ve been back in the UK for three weeks. What have I been up to? Where has the streamContinue Reading
Poems by B. S. Johnson
When asked his occupation, or for any kind of self-identification, B. S. Johnson would reply that he was a “poet”.Continue Reading
Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth by Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire was born the same year I was, 1988, so reading this excellent collection of intelligent, though-provoking and matureContinue Reading
On Walthamstow Market and Feeling the Best I’ve Felt In Fucking Ages
Pursuing bright green polyester with the intention of creating an amateur video effects lab, I got up and out ofContinue Reading
State of the Nation
Nothing interests me on The Mall. And only the pelicans do in St James’s Park. But I like walking, passing,Continue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 