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May 8, 2014
Kraken!
Octopus courtesy of Gisela Royo
of Barcelona, Spain and sxc.hu
I have been having fun yesterday and today with my cephalopod stories, mentioned in the last post--there are seven tiny fictions plus an eighth piece, a clerihew for Erik Pontoppidan. And all that goes to show that blog visitors and bloggers can influence my mind because I'm not sure if I would have gone for eight (although so very
of Barcelona, Spain and sxc.hu
I have been having fun yesterday and today with my cephalopod stories, mentioned in the last post--there are seven tiny fictions plus an eighth piece, a clerihew for Erik Pontoppidan. And all that goes to show that blog visitors and bloggers can influence my mind because I'm not sure if I would have gone for eight (although so very
May 7, 2014
Cephalopodish
Photograph courtesy of merchant mariner John Boyer,who is sometimes based in Kuwait, and sxc.hu
The octopus is so intelligent that it is considered an Honorary Vertebrate for legal purposes in the UK. I wonder if octopi are insulted by this. Perhaps they haven't been told.
I've been writing tiny stories lately, and the thought of one involving a cuttlefish or octopus has crept into a crevice
The octopus is so intelligent that it is considered an Honorary Vertebrate for legal purposes in the UK. I wonder if octopi are insulted by this. Perhaps they haven't been told.
I've been writing tiny stories lately, and the thought of one involving a cuttlefish or octopus has crept into a crevice
May 6, 2014
Death of the novel and why writers write
Clive Hicks-Jenkins, image
from the rear cover of The Foliate Head
(UK: Stanza Press, 2012)
For some reason or other (people do argue about why these things happen, don't they?), I wrote a little short story--one about a fantastic event that caused a woman to begin living a set of experiences that would become her next novel--after reading Will Self's essay, "The novel is dead (this time
from the rear cover of The Foliate Head
(UK: Stanza Press, 2012)
For some reason or other (people do argue about why these things happen, don't they?), I wrote a little short story--one about a fantastic event that caused a woman to begin living a set of experiences that would become her next novel--after reading Will Self's essay, "The novel is dead (this time
May 5, 2014
CC: Robbi Nester asks--
Lummox Press, 2014
What follows is a copy of an interview conducted by Robbi Nester, posted last Saturday on a facebook page for The Liberal Media Made me Do It, a brand new anthology from Lummox Press, edited by Robbi. Although the interview has been re-posted here and there on facebook, I'm adding a copy for people who don't venture that way online.
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For our second interview with a
What follows is a copy of an interview conducted by Robbi Nester, posted last Saturday on a facebook page for The Liberal Media Made me Do It, a brand new anthology from Lummox Press, edited by Robbi. Although the interview has been re-posted here and there on facebook, I'm adding a copy for people who don't venture that way online.
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For our second interview with a
Rowing my little boat--
At Quail Ridge Books of Raleigh.
Photo by Michael Poteat of Greenville--his wife, Gail McIntosh,went to high school with me and is just out of this picture,but on my right is another high school classmate and at leftthe big sister of a classmate. Joann Sumner and her husbandput up with me while I was in Raleigh for readings last year.
In answer to some what-are-you-up-to questions: I've been
Photo by Michael Poteat of Greenville--his wife, Gail McIntosh,went to high school with me and is just out of this picture,but on my right is another high school classmate and at leftthe big sister of a classmate. Joann Sumner and her husbandput up with me while I was in Raleigh for readings last year.
In answer to some what-are-you-up-to questions: I've been
Nigeria's stolen girls--
Here's a useful #bringbackourgirls page: http://en.minguo.info/. Here's Teju Cole (@tejucole) on the lost schoolgirls and Nigeria aka his Surrealistan. https://twitter.com/tejucole/timeline....
May 3, 2014
Real and irreal
Detail from the cover of Thaliad. Art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
I picked this one for the post because it suggests a kind of leafing
and fruiting and singing that joins all good writers, maugre the mode!
This post is a wandering set of responses to another post, in which the ever-interesting Patrick Kurp talks about the literary loves and antipathies of H. L. Mencken. The portions about Mencken
I picked this one for the post because it suggests a kind of leafing
and fruiting and singing that joins all good writers, maugre the mode!
This post is a wandering set of responses to another post, in which the ever-interesting Patrick Kurp talks about the literary loves and antipathies of H. L. Mencken. The portions about Mencken
May 1, 2014
The NPM giveaway--
The winner of the great poetry giveaway is utopian fragments! And the rest of you, readers or readers-and-poets, thank you for playing. I enjoyed e-meeting you and hope you'll come back again sometime.
The image at left is from Clive Hicks-Jenkins and is one of the vignettes of collaged, painted papers from Thaliad. At right is one from The Foliate Head.
The image at left is from Clive Hicks-Jenkins and is one of the vignettes of collaged, painted papers from Thaliad. At right is one from The Foliate Head.
3 for May Day
Interior art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins for The Foliate Head
(UK: Stanza Press, 2012)
DEW-RINSED
It's May Day, so I hope you went out and washed your faces in dew! If not, how can you expect to be beautiful forever? The birds are singing, the first chilly flowers are stars in the grass, the rain drops are on the rose canes, and it is Yankee-springish around here.
THOUGHTS ON READING CERTAIN
(UK: Stanza Press, 2012)
DEW-RINSED
It's May Day, so I hope you went out and washed your faces in dew! If not, how can you expect to be beautiful forever? The birds are singing, the first chilly flowers are stars in the grass, the rain drops are on the rose canes, and it is Yankee-springish around here.
THOUGHTS ON READING CERTAIN
April 30, 2014
Clive at Oriel Tefryn
Joseph Dreams of Home (Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale)
Clive Hicks-Jenkins will soon have an opening at Oriel Tegfryn (Wales), and you can see images of the works in the solo show here. Little sub-groups of paintings deal with the Gawain and the Green Knight, the landscapes of The Mare's Tale, still-life-with-window-landscapes, saints, Shakespeare, Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale, and my upcoming
Clive Hicks-Jenkins will soon have an opening at Oriel Tegfryn (Wales), and you can see images of the works in the solo show here. Little sub-groups of paintings deal with the Gawain and the Green Knight, the landscapes of The Mare's Tale, still-life-with-window-landscapes, saints, Shakespeare, Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale, and my upcoming
