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February 20, 2018
The Girl Who... Now Available to Buy
The Girl Who Got onto the Ferry in Citizen Kane is now available to buy from the publisher's website.
The pamphlet will be launched at Keats House in London tomorrow night. The event is free, although you will need to book a place via Eventbrite. Tickets are available here.
February 9, 2018
Cover for The Girl Who Got onto the Ferry in Citizen Kane
This is the front cover of my poetry pamphlet, The Girl Who Got onto the Ferry in Citizen Kane, published by Templar Poetry. The image is a pun, but you'll have to read it to find out exactly what the pun is...
The collection will be launched at Keats House in London on 21 February, at 1900. I will be reading with Rachel Spence. All welcome. Tickets are free, but must be booked via Eventbrite. See you there!
January 29, 2018
David Lindsay Talk: 31 January
I'm giving a talk in Edinburgh this Wednesday, 31st January, on David Lindsay. Details on the poster below. All welcome.
December 24, 2017
Christmas in Kingsport
It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and mankind. It was the Yuletide, and I had come at last to the ancient sea town where my people had dwelt and kept festival in the elder time when festival was forbidden; where also they had commanded their sons to keep festival once every century, that the memory of primal secrets might not be forgotten.
- H. P. Lovecraft, 'The Festival'
Happy Christmas!
October 7, 2017
Tarkovsky's VGIK Films Reconsidered
My article, 'The Stilyaga from Siberia: Tarkovsky's VGIK Films Reconsidered' is now available on Academic.edu. In English, this time. It's slightly revised (3 paragraphs longer) than the Portuguese translation that appeared in January of this year for the Belo Horizonte Tarkovsky retrospective.
https://www.academia.edu/34705087/The_Stilyaga_from_Siberia_Tarkovskys_VGIK_Films_Reconsidered.pdf
August 29, 2017
The Girl Who Got onto the Ferry in Citizen Kane: Poems
I have won a Templar Portfolio Poetry Award, which will see Templar Poetry publishing my first official pamphlet of poems, The Girl Who Got onto the Ferry in Citizen Kane, in a few months' time. A few of the pieces have been published before: the title poem in Gutter in 2014, another appeared in an issue of Butcher's Dog last year, and the collection will also include my Wigtown prize-winning piece, 'Chop Wood, Carry Water'. But the rest are new to publication. I expect to be doing some readings when the pamphlet is launched. I will post more information when I have some.
June 7, 2017
International Association for Comparative Mythology 2017 Conference
The International Association for Comparative Mythology's 2017 Conference takes place in Edinburgh 8-11 June. All welcome. More details can be found at www.compmyth.org.
Poster by Ollie Benton
February 23, 2017
Tarkovsky: Eternal Return in Brazil
My essay 'The Stilyaga from Siberia: Tarkovsky's VGIK Films Reconsidered' has now been published (in Portuguese). It's in the catalogue of the retrospective Andreï Tarkovski: Eterno Retorno, which ran at the Cine Humberto Mauro in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, between 20 January and 9 February. The essay will appear 'in English' at some point later this year I hope.
February 17, 2017
The Stilyaga from Siberia
I have a new essay on Tarkovsky, 'The Stilyaga from Siberia: Tarkovsky's VGIK Films Reconsidered', publishing in the not too distant future. The paper has been written for a Tarkovsky retrospective that is happening in Brazil. More details as and when...
October 22, 2016
Essay on Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood published
The new DVD and Blu Ray from Artificial Eye/Curzon of Tarkovsky's Ivan's Childhood contains a piece of mine in the accompanying booklet. This isn't a new article, but is derived from my book Andrei Tarkovsky . A review of the Blu Ray can be found here. I really must get a Blu Ray player at some point...
