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Cameron Woodhead on Louis Armand’s latest novel, ABACUS (Vagabond Press), Sydney Morning Herald “Pick of the Week” (July 25, 2015). Cover image (c) Glendyn Ivin   Sydney-born poet and novelist Louis Armand has lived in Prague since 1994. Such self-imposed literary exile tends to intensify the artist’s sense of what they’ve left behind – think … Continue reading →

"Modernity today is not in the hands of the poets, but in the hands of the cops" // Louis Aragon
"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" // A.N. Whitehead

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"Poetism is the crown of life; Constructivism is its basis" // Karel Teige

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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?…we need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us” // Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollack, 27 January 1904
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