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- Oct 23, 2020
BLACK ICE AND A LOVING HEART
Quarantine rules, and…. quarantine rules. Isolation regulates interaction, even where isolation is not the rule. During this phase of the...
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- Sep 27, 2020
LIFE IS A MANY-COVERED THING
While I was in Trinidad, earlier in 2020, but after the plague had sprung, a friend from England caught me up with their living situation...
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- Sep 22, 2020
The Sounds (Beneath the Sounds)
Tat-tat-tat. Tat-tat-tat. With a flick, a yank, or a push, the noises rip it up. Sensurround, Leatherface-style. Nerve-racking, as the...
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- Aug 26, 2020
BONDING OVER WORMS: LIMITS AND LOVABILITY
Being a member of Generation X – or, as I prefer to say, being a child of the 1970s – has shaped my tastes forever. You’ll know the kind...
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- Aug 4, 2020
Fleeting Things
“A bit like our lives, it’s transient.” – David Sinclair, Australian photographer and tour guide on the Disappearing Tarn 20...
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- Jul 22, 2020
Blood and Bronze: Of Protest, Distance, Fiction and Statues
It has been strange watching the Black Lives Matter movement in Britain, my second country; or rather, refusing to consume too much of it...
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- Jul 11, 2020
Video reading: 3 poems by Yeow Kai Chai
1. Quarterly Report no. 7: Epiphytes and Vetiver Control 2. August Moon 3. Rehearsals for Departure
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- Jul 8, 2020
Soundscapes and Stonescapes of Home
There is a soundscape to this lockdown diary. It is a soundscape of sounds that are continuing and sounds that recently ceased. Four days...
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- Jun 21, 2020
'Animals that must eat or die': Gwen Harwood's centenary and censorship
I want to talk about two current issues on the level of the policing of speech, censorship and the creation of meaning.
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- Jun 11, 2020
The Age of Unpleasant Doubts and Ridiculous Certainties
As protests and riots erupt across America–a tinderbox lit by yet another callous killing of a black man, igniting a sea of humanity...
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- May 27, 2020
You Can Look At All Sorts Of Things: Plague Journal, May 2020
Sunlight through metal louvres bars this room with heat.
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- May 25, 2020
Maskaphobia and the real contagion
Ginger froze for a couple of seconds. I have been feeding the orange cat at the foot of our public housing flat every day for a couple of...
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- May 25, 2020
I’ve been thinking…
I’ve been thinking about this pandemic. How both unexpected and inevitable it always was. Thinking about Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the...
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