November 2010
3 posts
“odd protest dream”
– most intriguing dream, sitting outside in electrically-lit dark in a narrow line packed deep w/protesters near the Houses of P passed slowly & solemn-faced by entire Conservative party walking a thin gangplank line of shame one by one, us at their feet shouting abuse, the obedient...
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blog don't rain but it pours (pornography, Left,...
I sent this arguably slightly silly quotation by Andrea Dworkin:
“The most important thing about pornography is that the values in it are the common values of men. This is the crucial fact that both the male Right and the male Left, in their differing but mutually reinforcing ways, want to keep hidden from women. The male Right wants to hide the pornography and the male Left wants to...
six o'clock nothings (death, genre, battle)
WS Graham’s Nightfishing, adapted for radio by Jonathan Davidson, is to happen audibly on BBC Radio 3 this Saturday 27 Nov at 21:45, sparking me to wonder: how come no one with cultural capital or even a noggin cares about poets until they die? Wait - pardon. That’s not what I mean. Clearly SOME people in SOME places care about living poets. But it seems to me that for example much...
