Tag: people

  • On a separate matter

    I’ve written before about my time working in pubs but I wanted to share another story from those days that has been on my mind lately. One of the pub’s regulars was a short, hollow-cheeked man of middle-age who always wore a zip-up vest and a military cap. I’ll refer to him here as X. Read.

  • On Brad Frederiksen

    Brad Frederiksen is a poet. Much of his work is experimental and opaque; he waits patiently for readers to make the connections in his writing, not unlike putting messages in bottles and casting them into the ocean. Some years ago, on my old site, I posed the question, “What do you do when your favourite Read.