//
archives

Archive for

“His landscapes, often peopled with bandits and containing scenes of violence, were a subversive influence” – Richard Makin, WORK (Chapter III)

Posted by ⋅ ⋅ Leave a comment

As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s WORK continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting … Continue reading →

“I remember nothing, which has its advantages in everyday life” – Richard Makin, WORK (Chapter I)

Posted by ⋅ ⋅ Leave a comment

As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s Work continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting details,” … Continue reading →

“All the mockingbirds, hyenas and mosquitoes in my head put to sleep” – excerpt from MENTAL SHRAPNEL, by Phillip O’Neil

Posted by ⋅ ⋅ Leave a comment

Chris Mahler was a top psychologist, but that was before the war in Bosnia. Something happened to him during that war – it left him too traumatised to remember. Jasmina was the love of his life. She was killed in the siege of Sarajevo and his ability to live and love again died with her. … Continue reading →

“His original name was who” – Richard Makin, WORK (Chapter VI)

Posted by ⋅ ⋅ Leave a comment

As Iain Sinclair has observed, Makin’s “writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” Richard Makin’s Work continues the “work” of Mourning by taking stock of “the minutiae of the view, the dissenting details,” … 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

Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

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

Goodreads

“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
August 2020
M T W T F S S
 12
3456789
10111213141516
17181920212223
24252627282930
31