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Posted on June 15, 2019June 15, 2019

“loneliness, the toxic by-product of freedom which generates ad-hoc, fragile communities among people who have escaped conventional backgrounds and who, after dreaming of cosmopolis, wake up atomized.”

A few weeks back I came across a brief review in the New Yorker by Peter Schjeldahl of the current Whitney Biennial, which turned out to be a condensed version…

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Posted on May 5, 2019

“Circle”, a poem by Holly Day

via Rabid Oak, Issue 12,  a poem about recurrence in history. And crows: History gathers up in a swirl of images seemingly unconnected as individual incidents clumping together to form a…

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Posted on April 19, 2019April 19, 2019

“Mars Ever Nearer”, John Jay Speredakos – Chaleuer Magazine

  I liked this poem  by John Jay Speredakos of the recurrent  violent reciprocity of conflict and war. Mars Ever Nearer Twenty millennia ago when we made spears, we did…

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Posted on April 15, 2019

“Alienated America”, Timothy Carney, reviewed by James Bradshaw, Position Papers

Found this review extremely interesting. Some highlights: Carney begins his account of social alienation in an unusual location: Chevy Chase, Maryland. Far from being a depressed post-industrial town in the…

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Posted on October 18, 2018

Fiction (and poetry) update

It’s been a while since I posted a fiction update – Jan 2017 to be precise. The one before that was two years ago. Alas, the pattern of outlets I…

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Posted on May 16, 2018May 13, 2018

“The Best Lack All Conviction, while the Worst / Are Full Of Passionate Intensity”

According to this article from August 2016, lines from Yeats’ The Second Coming were quoted more often in the first seven months of 2016 than in any of the prior…

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Posted on November 13, 2017November 13, 2017

“The whirligig of time” : A note on Fr Pat Noise

Seeing that this documentary is to be broadcast next Saturday I thought it an apt time, though any time would be an apt time, to post about my own research…

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Posted on May 11, 2017May 11, 2017

William Gerhardie – review of “God’s Fifth Column”, The Dabbler, 2015

Another William Gerhardie piece, this time ten years on from the SAU blog one and covering much of the same ground about his odd kind of fame. The Dabbler had a feature…

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