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Midnight Grotesques Cover + Pre-order
I’m very pleased to be able to share the cover of Midnight Grotesques, my small, experimental book with California-based artist Michelle Lynn Dyrness. Midnight Grotesques started as a pandemic project – Michelle and I trading images and text across the planet, playing on ideas of provenance and the uncertainty of narrative truth, slowly building what Read.
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On ‘Where the Dead Man Lost Himself’
My piece Where the Dead Man Lost Himself has been published in the May 2023 edition of the the mysterious RIC Journal. Without getting into style too much, I did worry that the formal play would appear trite – one long sentence has been done to death. However, that’s how it came and my attempts Read.
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On ‘When the World Folds In (The Dead Man)’
My piece When the World Folds In (The Dead Man) was published in the April edition of the elusive RIC Journal. This line: Good boy, dead man. …the way it had several meanings, its playfulness, had been on my mind in the lead up to composing this piece. With thanks to S – as always. Read.
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Another Eight Questions for Saudamini Deo
My second interview with writer and translator Saudamini Deo has been published, again by the good folks at Asymptote Journal. This time, Saudamini and I discuss her English translation of Traces of Boots on Tongue by Rajkamal Chaudhary – the second book in her translation project, published by Seagull Books as part of their India Read.
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On ‘Saying Nothing’
Thread, Greek or Roman, 1st century CE The next part in my ongoing conversation with Daniela Cascella has been published at Sublunary Editions. In Saying Nothing: A Conversation with Daniela Cascella, D and I discuss her her two books Nothing As We Need It and Chimeras. The two books, both published last year, explore her Read.
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Eight Questions for Harald Voetmann
Very happy to be able to say that my interview with Danish writer Harald Voetmann has been published by the kind folk at Full Stop Magazine. More or less everything I have to say about the interview is in its intro, but it’s worth repeating here that I really did love Awake (do check it Read.
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On ‘Untitled (Death of the Dead Man)’
My piece Untitled (Death of the Dead Man) has been published in the anniversary edition of RIC Journal. As usual, it’s a privilege to have my writing be given a home – with thanks, as always, to Saudamini. As you can see, the Dead Man still follows me. Still tugs at my sleeve to distract Read.
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Rounding up the Dead Man
I’ve been neglecting this space in recent months, so I’m behind on posting about the Dead Man pieces RIC has published. A little about the Dead Man – regardless of what else is happening in my life, and irrespective of what else I am writing or reading or thinking, he is a constant. He manifested Read.
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On ‘Untitled (The Dead Man Drags His Feet)’
My piece Untitled (The Dead Man Drags His Feet) has been published in the March 2022 edition of RIC Journal. I try to forget the Dead Man, at least for a time, but then something happens and he reminds me that he is there – and very likely always will be. With thanks, always, to Read.
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On ‘The Dreamer I + II’
My pieces The Dreamer I and The Dreamer II have been published in MAP Magazine. These essays are part of the series A Year of Carte Blanche and Other Chimeras, commissioned by my impossible friend Daniela Cascella who is guest editor at MAP. I told D that lockdowns and an indefinite pandemic were killing my Read.
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