POETRY MONTH: text redacted from 2017 SAFE MODE by Sam Riviere blog post
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Tag: Relationships
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena Ferrante
truly one of the greatest recent works of fiction
After the Fall by Arthur Miller
thoughts on avoiding the canon
The Pumpkin Eater by Penelope Mortimer
powerful novel that should be better known
I Am A Truck by Michelle Winters
very very very good novella from 2016
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
getting sad again in the bleak northern winter
Sex In Society by Alex Comfort
hubba hubba hubba
Mi novio Caballo [My Boyfriend, the Horse] by Xiomara Correa
a book about modern love i.e. travel and drugs and sex with a horse
Bear by Marian Engel
simply the bestial
Safe Mode by Sam Riviere
familiarity breeds affection
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
If Greer – who doesn’t believe in non-binary genders – is correct, then I am a woman.
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
Wow. I just finished reading this long collection of themed poems, and found it pretty impressive. Birthday Letters, Ted Hughes’Continue Reading
I Don’t Practice Santorini, I Ain’t Got No Piss-tal Ball: Urinating on a Woman, the Greek Pompeii and Over-Priced Drinks
‘Please,’ she said, wiggling her arse in apparent desperate need and pulling her red and black one piece to theContinue Reading
On Masturbation As The Opening To A Relationship
There’s a story I remember being told as a teenager that has recently come back to me. It was aContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 